Read the Poem "Execution" by Edward Hirsch. Answer questions 3, 6, & 8 on page 101. Your answers should be at least 2-3 sentences long.

Question 3, 6, 8:

Q3: IN line 11, the speaker says that the coach "despised login" how, if at all, did he reveal this attitude to his players? Identify specific words that help you address this question.

Q6: In line 28, the speaker says that the coach now "looked wobbly and stunned by illness" what, evidently, was the coach feeling about his misfortune?

Q8: The title word, execution, appears twice in the poem. Do these two appearances reflect the same emotion, or different ones? Explain.
Read O'Connor's A Good Man is Hard to Find," pgs. 1007-1020. Answer question # 2 on page 1021. Your answer be at least 4 sentences long.

Question for A Good Man is Hard to Find: Note places where the word "good" comes up in this story. How is it defined? Do the definitions change? Do you think the author has in mind a definition that does not occur to the characters?

Read Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," pgs. 497-505. Answer question #4 on page 504. Your answer be at least 4 sentences long.

Question for A Rose for Emily: Look at the last sentence of paragraph 51. What do you make of the five adjectives used? Are they understandable in terms of the story?

Paragraph 51:

Daily, monthly, yearly we watched the Negro grow grayer and more stooped, going in and out with the market basket. Each December we sent her a tax notice, which would be returned by the post office a week later, unclaimed.

Now and then we would see her in one of the downstairs windows--she had evidently shut up the top floor of the house--like the carven torso of an idol in a niche, looking or not looking at us, we could never tell which.

Thus she passed from generation to generation--dear, inescapable, impervious, tranquil, and perverse.