High School

Each of the following appears in paragraph 4 EXCEPT:

A. parallelism
B. simile
C. imagery
D. periodic sentence
E. antithesis

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From *As I Lay Dying* by William Faulkner:

> He did not know that he was dead, then. Sometimes I would lie by him in the dark, hearing the land that was now of my blood and flesh, and I would think: Anse. Why Anse. Why are you Anse. I would think about his name until after a while I could see the word as a shape, a vessel, and I would watch him liquefy and flow into it like cold molasses flowing out of the darkness into the vessel, until the jar stood full and motionless: a significant shape profoundly without life like an empty door frame; and then I would find that I had forgotten the name of the jar. I would think: The shape of my body where I used to be a virgin is in the shape of a and I couldn’t think Anse, couldn’t remember Anse. It was not that I could think of myself as no longer unvirgin, because I was three now. And when I would think Cash and Darl that way until their names would die and solidify into a shape and then fade away, I would say, All right. It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter what they call them. (1)

> And so when Cora Tull would tell me I was not a true mother, I would think how words go straight up in a thin line, quick and harmless, and how terribly doing goes along the earth, clinging to it, so that after a while the two lines are too far apart for the same person to straddle from one to the other; and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words. Like Cora, who could never even cook. (2)

> She would tell me what I owed to my children and to Anse and to God. I gave Anse the children. I did not ask for them. I did not even ask him for what he could have given me: not-Anse. That was my duty to him, to not ask that, and that duty I fulfilled. I would be I; I would let him be the shape and echo of his word. That was more than he asked, because he could not have asked for that and been Anse, using himself so with a word. (3)

> And then he died. He did not know he was dead. I would lie by him in the dark, hearing the dark land talking of God’s love and His beauty and His sin; hearing the dark voicelessness in which the words are the deeds, and the other words that are not deeds, that are just the gaps in people’s lacks, coming down like the cries of the geese out of the wild darkness in the old terrible nights, fumbling at the deeds like orphans to whom are pointed out in a crowd two faces, and told, That is your father, your mother. (4)

Answer :

Final answer:

In paragraph 4 of William Faulkner's 'As I Lay Dying,' elements such as simile, imagery, and antithesis are present, but periodic sentence and parallelism are not explicitly identified, with a focus on periodic sentence as the element that does not appear.

Explanation:

The question asks which of the following elements does not appear in paragraph 4 of the excerpt from As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner. Upon examination of the paragraph, simile, imagery, and antithesis are present. Similes compare two different things using like or as, imagery vividly describes scenes, objects, or moments, and antithesis places contrasting ideas together in a balanced or parallel structure. However, a periodic sentence, a sentence that has its main clause or predicate at the end, and parallelism, the repetition of grammatical elements in writing, are not explicitly identified, making both potential answers. Given the specific examples and elements asked for in the provided excerpt, we focus on identifying clear instances of each, and without a full examination of each sentence's structure, periodic sentence identification requires in-depth analysis. Therefore, focusing on the options listed, parallelism is subtly present in the way ideas are structured, especially in Faulkner's characteristic style, suggesting that periodic sentence could be considered as not appearing explicitly or as clearly as the other elements.