Question

Read this excerpt from "Look Homeward, Angel."

And whatever he touched in that rich fortress of his soul sprang into golden life: as the years passed, the fruit trees—the peach, the plum, the cherry, the apple—grew great and bent beneath their clusters. His grape vines thickened into brawny ropes of brown and coiled down the high wire fences of his lot, and hung in a dense fabric, upon his trellises, roping his domain twice around. They climbed the porch end of the house and framed the upper windows in thick bowers. And the flowers grew in rioting glory in his yard—the velvet-leaved nasturtium, slashed with a hundred tawny dyes, the rose, the snowball, the redcupped tulip, and the lily.

The author uses sensory details in this excerpt to create images of

Answer 1

Thomas Wolfe is the author of “Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried”. He wrote this his first novel in 1929, and is considered highly autobiographical. The character of Eugene Gant is generally considered a representation of Wolfe himself. The novel is set in time from Eugene's birth to the age of 19. The setting is the fictional town and state of Altamont, Catawba, a dramatization of his home town, Asheville, North Carolina.

in this excerpt if the novel, the author uses sensory details in this excerpt to create images of:

Nature, vegetation, life around flowers, trees, fruits and vines, images of the beauty of Nature at the reach of the hand.

Answer 2

Answer:

B.  Shades and barriers, to suggest Grant's need for privacy.