Read the excerpt from David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. I cannot make myself understood. 'I am not just a jock,'I say slowly. Distinctly. 'My transcript for the last year
might have been dickied a bit, maybe, but that was to get me over a rough spot. The grades prior to that are
de moi.' My eyes are closed; the room is silent. 'I cannot make myself understood, now.'I am speaking slowly
and distinctly. 'Call it something I ate.'
It's funny what you don't recall. Our first home, in the suburb of Weston, which I barely remember-my eldest
brother Orin says he can remember being in the home's backyard with our mother in the early spring, helping
the Moms till some sort of garden out of the cold yard. March or early April. The garden's area was a rough
rectangle laid out with Popsicle sticks and twine.
Which element of structure most contributes to the postmodern quality of this excerpt?
O sudden shift of time and setting
O unexpected change in perspective
O use of irony to emphasize a point
use of allusion to reference an idea

Why does the author introduce druse as lying in a “clump of laurel”? consider any symbolic or cultural meanings associated with this plant, and what significance it lends to this particular story. story "a horseman in the sky"

How does gregor feel about his fathers transformation?

Read the quotation from "an occurrence at owl creek bridge." and now he became conscious of a new disturbance. striking through the thought of his dear ones was a sound which he could neither ignore nor understand, a sharp, distinct, metallic percussion like the stroke of a blacksmith’s hammer upon the anvil; it had the same ringing quality. he wondered what it was, and whether immeasurably distant or near by—it seemed both. its recurrence was regular, but as slow as the tolling of a death knell. he awaited each stroke with impatience and—he knew not why—apprehension. the intervals of silence grew progressively longer, the delays became maddening. with their greater infrequency the sounds increased in strength and sharpness. they hurt his ear like the thrust of a knife; he feared he would shriek. what he heard was the ticking of his watch. which best describes the effect of the narration in the excerpt? it suggests that the man being executed feels tranquil and at peace. it suggests that the narrator is sympathetic to the man being executed. it suggests that the plot will become less tense as the story continues. it suggests that the story will become more intense and mysterious.