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English, 13.04.2021 22:20 msdrake79

Read the two excerpts from section 3 of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge." Then all at once, with terrible suddenness, the light about him shot upward with the noise of a loud splash; a frightful roaring was in his ears, and all was cold and dark. The power of thought was restored; he knew that the rope had broken and he had fallen into the stream.
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As he is about to clasp her he feels a stunning blow upon the back of the neck; a blinding white light blazes all about him with a sound like the shock of a cannonā€”then all is darkness and silence!
What does the motif of a loud sound represent in the story?
the passage between the North and the South
the passage between dreams and reality
the contrast between right and wrong
the contrast between oneā€™s family and oneā€™s enemies

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