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8/4/24, 10:31 AMExperiencing and Reliving Vietnam
Jeremiah
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Why might people lie or embellish the truth To avoid offending or upsetting the listener
when telling a story? Check any of the boxes To make the story more interesting or exciting
that you agree with. To exaggerate their own role in the event
To avoid offending or upsetting the listener To downplay their own role in the event
To make the story more interesting or To draw the listener into their experience
exciting
To exaggerate their own role in the event
To downplay their own role in the event
To draw the listener into their experience
Tim O'Brien is the narrator of "Ambush," but It does not matter one way or the other.
the author (Tim O'Brien) does not actually
have a daughter. How do you feel about this
fact?
It proves that the events in the story are not
true.
It makes the story more interesting.
It does not matter one way or the other.
It affects my opinion of the author.
It makes me not trust the author.
The author Tim O'Brien has sons. If he wrote If Tim O'Brien had written a story about a son asking his father if he had ever killed
about a son asking his father if he had ever anyone, the emotional impact would not change because the relationship between the
killed anyone, would the emotional impact of son and father is the same as between a daughter and father. Both relationships are a
the story change? Why or why not? child to a parent, so the emotional impact should be just as strong.
If Tim O'Brien had written a story about a son
asking his father if he had ever killed anyone,
the emotional impact would not change
because the relationship between the son
and father is the same as between a
daughter and father. Both relationships are a
child to a parent, so the emotional impact
should be just as strong.
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What did you include in your response? It does not matter whom he is telling.
It does not matter whom he is telling.
Father/daughter relationships are unique.
Father/son relationships are unique.
Which of the following structures is most Sequential presentation
simplistic?
Sequential presentation
Flashback
Frame story or multiple points of view
Multiple switches between action and
commentary
Which part of this passage is a flashback? the first four sentences
the last two sentences
the first four sentences
the fifth and sixth sentences
How do you know that this passage contains The tense shifts from past to present.
a flashback, or change in time?
The tense shifts from past to present.
The tense shifts from present to past.
The time shifts from Vietnam to the present.
In "Ambush," which of the following events The narrator describes a man walking on a trail.
signals the beginning of a narrative within a
frame story?
Kiowa tells the narrator that the man would
have died anyway.
The platoon moves into ambush position
outside My Khe.
The narrator describes a man walking on a
trail.
The narrator's daughter asks him a question
about the past.
Which line signals the end of the narrative "Even now I haven't finished sorting it out. Sometimes I forgive myself, other times I
within the frame story? don't."
"He fell on his back. His rubber sandals had
been blown off."
"Even now I haven't finished sorting it out.
Sometimes I forgive myself, other times I
don't."
"For me, it was not a matter of live or die. I
was in no real peril."
"None of it mattered. The words seemed far
too complicated. All I could do was gape at
the fact of the young man's body."
How does the frame-story structure create it shows how the speaker still struggles with the past in the present
tension?
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