LITERATURE QUESTIONS
ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE
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He was eating a sandwich hungrily. He had eaten nothing since morning.
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Around the beleaguered Four Courts the heavy guns roared. Here and there through the city, machine guns and rifles broke the silence of the night ____
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The imagery used in the sniper establishes the mood throughout the story. “Here and there through the city, machine guns and rifles broke the silence of the night, spasmodically, like dogs barking on lone farms” (O’Flaherty 1). This quote instills danger and fear as the primary feeling throughout the story.
Detailed explanation-2: -“[The sniper’s eyes] were deep and thoughtful, the eyes of a man who is used to looking at death.” This quote expresses the sniper’s experience with war. O’Flaherty characterizes his protagonist briefly, but makes it clear that the sniper has been hardened by battle.
Detailed explanation-3: -Here are three examples of foreshadowing from the story: After killing the old woman and the soldier in the armored car, the sniper is shot by the opposing sniper. He drops his rifle, which ‘’rifle clattered to the roof . . . The sniper thought the noise would wake the dead.