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How Plot Orders Events: Short Fiction Practice Test
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Consider the excerpt:
“My son’s spelling test lies face down on the counter, the red ink bleeding through like a rash.
When I was his age, my father corrected my mistakes by making me copy the word a hundred times, as if repetition could beat error into obedience.
I turn the paper over. ‘Necessary’ is missing an ‘s.’ ‘Tomorrow’ is missing an ‘r.’
Years from now, my son will tell someone I never yelled, and I will wonder whether that is praise or accusation.
I pick up a pen and write, carefully, ‘Let’s practice together.’”
What is the effect of the narrator’s jump from childhood memory to future reflection within the present scene?
Consider the excerpt:
“My son’s spelling test lies face down on the counter, the red ink bleeding through like a rash.
When I was his age, my father corrected my mistakes by making me copy the word a hundred times, as if repetition could beat error into obedience.
I turn the paper over. ‘Necessary’ is missing an ‘s.’ ‘Tomorrow’ is missing an ‘r.’
Years from now, my son will tell someone I never yelled, and I will wonder whether that is praise or accusation.
I pick up a pen and write, carefully, ‘Let’s practice together.’”
What is the effect of the narrator’s jump from childhood memory to future reflection within the present scene?