2. Tannen’s Mystery Magic Box: Explain Abrams’ analogy of the box to the process of writing. 3. What is the significance of the father/child scene in Jaws? What point did the scene exemplify for Abrams?

Read this passage from william faulkner's the sound and the fury: i says no i never had university advantages because at harvard they teach you how to go for a swim at night without knowing how to swim and at sewanee they dont even teach you what water is. i says you might send me to the state university; maybe i'll learn how to stop my clock with a nose spray and then you can send ben to the navy i says or to the cavalry anyway, they use geldings in the cavalry. which best describes the narrator's tone in this passage? a. bitter b. angry c. sarcastic d. all of the above

What else do you think experts can learn from studying the language of written work? what do you think is the value of studying the language of william shakespeare whose writing is over hundreds of years old?

The tone of a story is the author's attitude toward the subject. provide two examples that support the conclusion that the tone of this story is ironic.