Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Literary Analysis (close reading) is best practiced by:

• Inductive Reasoning

• Deductive Reasoning

• Relying only on past knowledge

• Plot Summary

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A theme is

• a limited statement about a conflict

• a claim about universal human experience

• a subject within the literary work

• a plot element in a novel

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The best thematic statement below is:

• The characters often confuse memory, fact, or fiction

• Memory, Fact, Fiction

• Memory and Fact v. Fiction

• Memory, Fact Fiction are indistinguishable and blend together to form our reality.

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A subject from Chronicle of a Death Foretold is

• Fate and Free Will

• Memory, Fact, and Fiction

• Ritual

• All of the Above

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All symbols featured in-class discussion best lead to what statement of Marquez's purpose:

• All life is mere chance

• murder is most foul

• A state of moral, spiritual, and physical decay prevents societal renewal

• Life's but a walking shadow . . .

  It is a tale

  Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

  Signifying nothing.

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One theme that emerges from the trauma surrounding Santiago's murder is:

• Humans create order to escape the reality of the absurd

• Let be, be

• The poor treatment of other results in violent retribution

• Innocence is easily destroyed.

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