Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones. the pile of stones the boys had made earlier was ready; there were stones on the ground with the blowing scraps of paper that had come out of the box. mrs. delacroix selected a stone so large she had to pick it up with both hands and turned to mrs. dunbar. "come on," she said. "hurry up." in this excerpt, the references to stones create at the end of "the lottery." allegory backstory foreshadowing suspense

In ralph ellison’s “the black ball” the narrator of the story stretches the truth or lies several times what do you think it is his motivation for being so untruthful

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. isn’t this like condemning socrates because his unswerving commitment to truth and his philosophical inquiries precipitated the act by the misguided populace in which they made him drink hemlock? isn’t this like condemning jesus because his unique god consciousness and never ceasing devotion to god’s will precipitated the evil act of crucifixion? what rhetorical technique does martin luther king employ in this excerpt from “letter from birmingham jail”? select all that apply. allusion extended metaphor figurative language simile

Which major world event was near the birth of the modernist movement