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Why do authors create tension in a story

Authors use tension in a story to build up to the climax and to make the audience more attentive towards to story.

How can the setting help reveal information about a character

By showing how a character reacts to or interacts with his or her surroundings

How does the stranger interaction with elisa at her garden differ from henrys interaction with her at her garden

The stranger seems more confident about invading her space while Henry respectfully stays outside the garden.

What are you doing when you analyze a character's actions and words to learn more about him or her

making inference

How does Elisa show that she has begun to trust the stranger during the conversation at the fence in The Chrysanthemums by Steinbeck

She shows that she has begun to trust when she opens up conversationally about her flowers, and also physically, when she takes off her hat, draws out her hair, and invites him beyond the fence.

What question would most likely be answered by reading the exposition of a story

Where was the author from

What is most likely mr whites final wish

to reverse his second wish

Which detail from the monkeys paw is most clearly an example of foreshadowing

The fakirs prediction that anyone who interferes with fate will be sorry

In The Chrysanthemums why is Elisa considered a complex character

She experiences many different emotions over the course of the story.

How does elisas feelings and actions toward the stranger change over the course of her conversation with him

She resists him at first but then warms up and begins to feel a connection with him.

Which sentence is an example of characterization through action

His breathing was shallow, his eyes wide, and his heart beat loud enough to be heard across the room.

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