"A Rose For Emily"

The story opens with a...

• Flashforward

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies is an example of

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Artwork

• Imagery

Provide the meaning of "obliterated" as used in the sentence from the story

"But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood;"

• Wiped out totally

• brought back

• made popular

Colonel Sartoris did not allow Ms Emily to remit her taxes. What reason did he provide to her?

• Her father had taken a loan from the town

• She had given the town a loan

• Her father had loan the town money

How did Miss Emily contribute the community?

• She provided artworks

• She taught students English

• She taught the children about the traditions of the past

• She gave China painting lessons

How does Miss Emily grieve her father's death?

• She buries him the next day he dies

• She held his body for seven days

• She kept his body for 3 days

Homer Barron and Miss Emily got married

• True

• False

• There is not much evidence to support this

Homer Barron had come to the South to be with Miss Emily

• True

• False

How did the townspeople try to help Miss Emily when they thought she was forgetting her Noblese Oblige?

• They sent their children and grandchildren to her

• They sent for her kinsfolk from Alabama

• They had a discussion with her

"She carried her head high enough--even when we believed that she was fallen." is an example of what literary device?

• Contrast

• Simile

• Personification