A Story Questions and Answers
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Explain satire and how it plays a role in the short story, "A Story."
Satire is a genre of literature in which certain things are exaggerated, ridiculed, mocked, or criticized. This can be done in the form of a parody, exaggeration (hyperbole), metaphorically, and so...
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Give a description of the outing as Thomas would describe it in "A Story."
Dylan Thomas could describe the outing in “A Story” as cantankerous. The members of the outing are regularly ill-tempered and hostile. Right away, they treat the boy as persona non grata. One of...
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In A Story, what does "throwing a dynamite into the salmon pool" mean?
I assume that you are talking about the line where Mr. Weazly asks who put the dynamite in the salmon pool. This comes early in the story when Mr. Franklyn is being indignant because other of the...