Modern American literature final exam with correct answers 2024
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Naturalist believe? correct answers Naturalist writers believed humans were helpless creatures moved by forces beyond thuer understanding or control
Naturalism reflected ? correct answers The harsh reality of American workers and immigrants
Naturalism Author of "to build a fire" correct an...
Modern American literature final exam
Naturalist believe? correct answers Naturalist writers believed humans were helpless
creatures moved by forces beyond thuer understanding or control
Naturalism reflected ? correct answers The harsh reality of American workers and
immigrants
Naturalism Author of "to build a fire" correct answers Jack London
Summary of " to build a fire" correct answers In Yukon trail.j a man is warned by an old
man to not travel in weather 50 degrees below 0 but does not listen to find a camp he
takes his dog with him and struggles to build a. Fire due to snow and dropping the
matches he falls into to frozen lake and doesn't succeeds in building a fire after. He
wants to kill his dog for the warm body and fur but the dog has good instincts and
doesn't let him the man dies in the cold and the dog leaves him and finds the camp.
Author of "The story of an Hour" correct answers Kate Chopin
Summary of "the story of an hour" correct answers Mrs. Mallard gets info from
newspaper her husband has died in a train wreck. At first she is upset and cries but
then realizes this is her chance to be a free women for the rest of her life. The news was
false and her her husband is alive. Josephine is Mrs mallards sister who worries about
her health. After Mr mallard returns the Mrs. dies from heart disease but it was really the
lose of joy that killed her because she could no longer be a free women
author of "The yellow wall paper" correct answers Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Summary of "the yellow wallpaper" correct answers Married to her husband John who
is a doctor, he dismisses her illness and takes her to the country house. There is one
room with yellow wallpaper. The paper bothers her and makes her curious, she says the
wallpaper is moving. John and relatives think that writing is making her crazy. She says
someone is crawling around the wallpaper. She can smell the wallpaper. She thinks she
came out of the wallpaper and that she is a trapped women
Author of "April Showers" correct answers Edith Wharton
Summary of " April Showers" correct answers Theadora is a author and wanted her
stories published. She is a sister and like a maid to her family. The home circle said
they would publish it but when they did confused Kathleen klyds story with hers and just
used the title. She went to the publishers to confront them but they didn't mean to
publish it. At the end she was back in the same place she's started, taking care of her
family.
, Author of "The great Gatsby" correct answers Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Author of " the outcasts of poker flat" correct answers Bret Harte
Summary of "the outcasts of poker flat" correct answers People are banished from
town because of crimes they committed. They are Outksts and sent towards the
mountains . The duchess and mother shipton are prostitutes and thief billy. The narrator
is oakhurst who is a gambler.while camping they met Tom the innocent who is oakhurts
old friend who lost a lot of money while gambling and oakhurst gave it back to him.
Uncle billy left and stole the mules. Mother shipton has been starving herself so piney
can live longer and she dies. The duchess and piney die of exposure to the cold.
Oakhurst shit himself in the heart
Theme of "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" correct answers The Outcasts are no different
to normal people. We all do good and bad.
The theme of the story of an hour correct answers Freedom time and identity. She is
filled with joy for her freedom
Poetic device in the story of the hour correct answers Irony is the main poetic device
used because everyone thinks her husbands death is what caused hers but it was
because he was alive. Also foreshadowing, symbolism
Poetic devices in the outcasts of poker flat correct answers Regionalism is one of the
main poetic devices, also foreshadowing
Poetic devices used in the yellow wallpaper correct answers Personification-the
wallpaper
Symbolism - the wallpaper symbolizes the oppression of women in American society
Irony- when johns plans backfire and make her insane
Theme of "The Yellow Wallpaper" correct answers Oppression of women
Self expression
John shouldn't have ignored and dismissed her when she asked for help
Theme of April showers correct answers She shouldn't give up on writing
To show the need for women to have rights and have literally expression
Illusion versus reality
Poetic devices in To build a fire correct answers Repetition - keeps trying to build a fire,
thawing and refreezing himself
Imagery - the snow and ice covered land, how small the man is compared to nature
Foreshadowing-recalls the old mans advice several times
Theme of to build a fire correct answers man cannot overcome nature
Listen to the wise and warnings
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