A rose for Emily

Faulkner calls architecture of the 1870s heavily lightsome.

This is an example of a literary device called _________.

• oxymoron.

  (a description that contains a self-contradiction

• personification

  (a description that gives human character to non-human things)

• metaphor

  (a description that uses an implied comparison)

• simile

  (a description that uses a direct comparison)

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We are told that "...only Miss Emily's house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps...". The phrase stubborn and coquettish decay is an example of ___________.

• simile

  (a description that uses a direct comparison)

• metaphor

  (a description that uses an implied comparison)

• personification.

  (a description that gives human character to non-human things)

• oxymoron

  (a description that contains a self-contradiction)

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The author compares Colonel Sartoris’s courtly treatment of Emily with his decree that Black women must wear apron. Although he doesn’t say so, we get the feeling that the author is __________.

• being critical of the Colonel.

• simply reporting facts as they were

• amused by the Colonel’s Old South manner

• angry and bitter

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When the Aldermen called on Emily, she had __________.

• stopped giving china-painting lessons some years before.

• just begun giving china-painting lessons

• been asked to stop giving china-painting lessons

• not yet decided to give china-painting lessons

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Colonel Sartoris and Judge Stevens are character examples of __________.

• the law and spirit of Jefferson

• corruption in government

• a fading generation.       

• dying southern liberalism

When Emily told the Aldermen to see Colonel Sartoris about her taxes, it showed that she __________.  

• had a friend in her own generation

• didn’t have a clear idea of time.

• had made enemies of the Aldermen

• was confused by the Aldermen

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The townspeople thought of Emily and her father as a tableaux framed in the open doorway. A tableau is a __________.

• memory

• vision

• picture.

• statue

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When Emily’s father died, he left her __________.

• very little.

• some wealth

• quite enough to live on

• enough to keep her in style

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Emily began going with Homer Barron __________.

• long before her father died        

• just before her father died

• shortly after her father died.       

• some years after her father died

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Emily and her father had __________.

• no emotional ties with relatives.

• close family ties

• great concern for family opinion

• no relatives they could call upon

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