As I Lay Dying practice Socratic seminar
• Analysis of multiple-choice questions is a means for not
an end to discussion.
• Contemplate not only why answers are correct but also
why answers are wrong (process of elimination).
• Provide focused textual evidence to support ideas.
• Analyze how literary devices are used by Faulkner to
convey meaning.
• Draw further relevant evidence from other chapters of
the novel in order to support answers and examine larger
ideas.
• Think about how the questions/answers relate to the
thematic concepts of futility and tenacity as well as
devices of characterization, conflict, and symbol.