Read the two excerpts from section 3 of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge." Then all at once, with terrible suddenness, the
light about him shot upward with the noise of a loud splash; a
frightful roaring was in his ears, and all was cold and dark. The power of thought was restored; he knew that
the rope had broken and he had fallen into the stream.
As he is about to clasp her he feels a stunning blow upon the back of the neck; a blinding white light blazes all
about him with a sound like the shock of a cannon-then all is darkness and silencel
What does the motif of a loud sound represent in the story?
the passage between the North and the South
the passage between dreams and reality
the contrast between right and wrong
the contrast between one's family and one's enemies

Which lines in this excerpt from act ii of william shakespeare’s romeo and juliet reveal that mercutio thinks romeo would be better off if he stopped thinking about love? mercutio: i will bite thee by the ear for that jest. romeo: nay, good goose, bite not. mercutio: thy wit is a very bitter sweeting it is a most sharp sauce. romeo: and is it not well served in to a sweet goose? mercutio: o here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad! romeo: i stretch it out for that word 'broad; ' which added to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose. mercutio: why, is not this better now than groaning for love? now art thou sociable, now art thou romeo; now art thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature: for this drivelling love is like a great natural, that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole. benvolio: stop there, stop there. mercutio: thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair. benvolio: thou wouldst else have made thy tale large. mercutio: o, thou art deceived; i would have made it short: for i was come to the whole depth of my tale; and meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer.