after life
the ordinariness of the moment is an aspect of the event that she will never forget
according to the author, the word "ordinary" (lines 13-18) can be left out of her recollections because
writing about it
based on the passage as a whole, the author indicates that she copes with her husband's death by
implies that a personal tragedy exists on the same scale as a national one
by associating her husband's death with the bombing of pearl harbor and the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the author
emphasize the hazy nature of her recollection of the days immediately following her husband's death
in lines 8-9, the author's deliberate overuse of conjunctions in the phrase "a day or two or three after the fact" primarily serves to
exploration of the nature of change and how to deal with that change
taken as a whole, the passage can best be regarded as a(n)
contemplative and reflective
the author's tone in lines 13-30 can best be described
states that she, the only witness to the event, is not the "ideal teller of the story"
a central irony of the passage is that the author
the stark abruptness and suddenness of change
the short sentences in lines 1-4 ("life changes fast... question of self-pity") highlight
the thin line between life an death
the author states "in the midst... graveside" (line 31) in order to suggest
tacit emotion and expressible emotion
the author's rhetorical stance is characterized by a dynamic tension between her
clinical and detached
the author's tone in lines 57-60 can best be described as being
is attempting to lessen the pain of remembrance by using ambiguous language
the author's use of the words "it" (line 5) and "fact" (line 9) reveal that the author
illustration and exemplification
the second full paragraph in lines 13-30 (beginning with "at some point...") is primarily characterized by what structural pattern?
that after a loved one dies, your previous life ends, and a new one comes after
in context, the title "after life" implies