Eng. 252 American lit 2 exam with correct answers 2024
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Eng. 252 American Lit 2
What is the Rest Cure? correct answers Medical treatment almost exclusively prescribed to women because of hysteria and depression-Gilman had post partum depression
According to Wright, what makes a Great Book? correct answers universality, a single central idea, and noble language
What are...
What is the Rest Cure? correct answers Medical treatment almost exclusively
prescribed to women because of hysteria and depression-Gilman had post partum
depression
According to Wright, what makes a Great Book? correct answers universality, a single
central idea, and noble language
What are Wright's six reasons for reading literature, briefly stated in your own words?
correct answers to use our imagination to remove us form our current life, picture the
world in others eyes, shape society and history, also to expand our knowledge and
vocabulary
Think about texts we have read so far. Name one of these texts that you consider "great
literature" and explain how it fits the criteria noted in Wright's article correct answers
The Soul's of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
What are annotations, and how are they helpful when reading literature? correct
answers annotations help us dive deeper in to the text by understanding the meaning,
explanation or commentary it can also provide a much deeper meaning and enhance
our engagement with the text.
What is foreshadowing? correct answers Hints that are giving through out the text that
tells the reader that may happen or appear later in the story
What is a theme? correct answers the central idea of a piece of literature
Describe the key characteristics of Realism in American Literature. Give a specific
example of these characteristics from one of our assigned works. correct answers
realism is a work of literature with strong focus on observation and documentation of
details of every day life focused on complex characters with realistic portrayal of
motives and behavior .
character in owl creek bridge emphasized over plot and action or the occurrence that
happened at owl creek bridge
Describe the key characteristics of Naturalism in American Literature. How does it differ
from Realism? Give a specific example of Naturalism in one of our assigned works.
correct answers Humans have no control over what happens. Mercy of internal &
external forces. Realist were middle class, naturalist were lower. Realist good prevails
while naturalist are doomed by fate. To Build a Fire
, Briefly summarize the plot of Chopin's "The Story of an Hour." How do you feel about
Mrs. Mallard and her experience? Do you sympathize with her? Why or why not? How
does the story challenge your assumptions or values? correct answers she believes
that her husband dies and she becomes happy bc her husband was abusive and when
she find out that he dies she is shocked and dies
I sympathized with her bc she was abused by him.
In Chopin's "The Story of an Hour," the words "abandoned" and "abandonment" are
repeated in the story. What does it mean that Mrs. Mallard's sense of self-possession
comes only after she unwillingly "abandons herself" to the "thing that was approaching
to possess her"? correct answers she didn't feel abandoned after her husband died she
realizes that freedom is possible and tangible not that her husband died
Name three significant facts about Kate Chopin's life. correct answers she married her
husband Oscar Chopin in 1870 when she was 20 years old
she had 6 kids
also she moved in to her mothers house and began writing poetry once her husband
died
Identify the key themes and ideas in Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour." correct
answers she engaged in controversial subjects like female sexuality, divorce, and
miscegenation. Joy of freedom/independence, love and marriage, gender roles,
domesticity
Compare and contrast "The Story of an Hour" with "The Yellow Wallpaper." correct
answers Both have a women in distress. Reflect realism of men and women
relationships, reveal the problem of women's desire for freedom, main characters deal
with inner conflicts. TSH- The woman chooses to go into the room, husband is believed
to have died, dies of heart attack due to husband actually being alive; TYW- The woman
is stuck in the room, husband basically controls her and is alive until the end, doesn't die
but steps over her husband
How would you describe the marital relationships in Chopin's "The Story of an Hour"
and in Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"? correct answers The men viewed the women
as lesser. There was a question of if the wife truly loved the husband or just wanted to
be independent. The husband was the doctor of the wife and was overbearing and
didn't allow her to leave the room
Name three significant facts about Charlotte Perkins Gilman's life correct answers
Suffered extended periods of depression throughout her life
Published women and economics in 1898
Committed suicide in 1935
Identify the key themes and ideas in Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper." correct answers
Women's sufferage and society
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