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American Literature Review
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Undergraduate 4
04/16/2018

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Exposition
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The setting is described and major characters are introduced
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Resolution
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The conflict is resolved
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"Active reading" help you...
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...Interact with the story
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Setting
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is the natural, cultural environment in which characters live and move
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In The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, how is "positive" nature illustrated?
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Through the farmlands that support people
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The "plot" refers to...
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...the sequence of events in a story
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What type of questions does the rhetorical question technique ask the reader?
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Questions that do not require an answer
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What does the parallelism technique consist of?
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A series of sentences with the same structure
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What does realism represent?
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Objects, events, and social conditions as they really are
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Interpersonal Communication requires what three things?
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A sender, a receiver, and an open line
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Critics characterized Edith Wharton's writing style as?
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A combination of realism and naturalism
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What are the three basic types of linear plots?
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1. Chronological order
2. Flashback
3. In medias res
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What type of linear plot throws you directly into the rising action?
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In medias res
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What shape is the most traditional form of linear plot organized around?
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A pyramid
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True/False: The setting and atmosphere in which a character assumes his/her role in is an example of characterization in literary works.
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TRUE
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True/False: Poetry in American Literature is very different from English poetry in structure, style and content.
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FALSE
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Who was the author of, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" ?
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Langston Hughes
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True/False: Langston Hughes literary works dealt with conflicts of the Black middle class
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TRUE
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Who is the author of "Maria Rosales of New Orleans"?
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Langston Hughes
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Who is the author of, "How it Feels to be Colored Me..." ?
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Zora Neale Hurston
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