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“How did Faulkner pull it off?” is a question many a fledgling writer has asked themselves while struggling through a period of apprenticeship like that novelist John Barth describes in his 1999 talk "My Faulkner." Barth “reorchestrated” his literary heroes, he says, “in search of my writerly self... downloading my innumerable predecessors as only an insatiable green apprentice can.” Surely a great many writers can relate when Barth says, “it was Faulkner at his most involuted and incantatory who most enchanted me.” For many a writer, the Faulknerian sentence is an irresistible labyrinth. His syntax has a way of weaving itself into the unconscious, emerging as fair to middling imitation.
While studying at Johns Hopkins University, Barth found himself writing about his native Eastern Shore Maryland in a pastiche style of “middle Faulkner and late Joyce.” He may have won some praise from a visiting young William Styron, “but the finished opus didn’t fly—for one thing, because Faulkner intimately knew his Snopses and Compsons and Sartorises, as I did not know my made-up denizens of the Maryland marsh.” The advice to write only what you know may not be worth much as a universal commandment. But studying the way that Faulkner wrote when he turned to the subjects he knew best provides an object lesson on how powerful a literary resource intimacy can be
The answer is:
B. The name of the one was Obstinate and the name of the other Pliable. Now, by this time, the man was got a good distance from them; but, however, they were resolved to pursue him, which they did, and in a little time they overtook him.
An allegory is a story, poem or picture that has a hidden meaning, usually moral or political.
In the quote from "The Pilgrim's Progress," by John Bunyan, Christian is followed by Obstinate and Pliable. They intend to bring him back after he leaves his wife and children to save himself, who is overwhelmed by his sin and heads to the "Wicked Gate" for salvation. Finally, Obstinate and Pliable reach him, but he refuses to go back home.
Your answer is A. Present perfect
I'm not 100% sure for 9, but 10 would be: "Whom", 11 would be "Wish", 12 is "wants"
James is smarter than Steven. Since smarter is already used to show that James has a higher mental ability than Steven, there is no need for "more"