What is the best explanation for why authors use both signal words and
sequencing in their writing?
It makes writing so much more fun that way!
0 To show off their good writing skills
To show the order in which things happen, which also allows the reader see
relationships between ideas.
To allow the reader to identify identify the theme more easily.

a woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

: ) most likely not the right answer but why not put a good dad joke up in there?

as for symbolic actions, the narrator's tearing down the wallpaper in an attempt to find the "woman" in the wallpaper represents her struggle to retain or regain her sanity.   the wallpaper has been part of her confinement and by her tearing it down, she is freeing herself from that confinement.

pretty sure 1.someone's coat was found in the lobby.