An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1890) is one of the most famous American short stories, as written by Ambrose Bierce. Alfred Hitchcock produced a segment on this as part of his television series, on December 20, 1959,[1] and The Twilight Zone had an episode devoted to this on February 28, 1964.[2]
Word count and vocabulary used
This short story has a word count of 3,804 words, and is in the public domain available on the internet.[3]
Its word choice includes:[4]
- acclivity (upward slope)
- adorn (add something attractive)
- archaic (outdated)
- ardent (done with intense or enthusiastic emotion)
- chafe (make sore by rubbing, or figuratively)
- dictum (a statement by a court of law beyond the narrow issue at hand)
- diminuendo (steady decrease in loudness in music)
- efface (removal by erasing or rubbing off)
- embrasure (an opening through which to fire)
- frock coat (a knee-length man's coat, front and back)
- gesticulate (speak through hand movements)
- idler (one who does not work)
- obsolete (not used anymore)
- oscillate (swinging back and forth)
- poignant (sparking emotion)
- preternatural (beyond nature)
- roseate (having a color that is dusty purplish pink)
- sentinel (one hired to watch for something)
- vulgar (associated with common people)