Explain the significance of lines in the poem
Section 1: Match the term with its definition
a) A narrated scene that marks a break in the narrative in order to inform the reader or audience member about events that took place before the opening scene of a work.
b) A person, object, image, word, or event that evokes a range of meaning beyond and usually more abstract than its literal significance.
c) An author’s selection and arrangement of incidents in a story to shape the action and give the story a particular focus.
d) The voice of the person telling the story, not to be confused with the author’s voice.
e) The character, force, or collection of forces in fiction or drama that opposes the protagonist and gives rise to the conflict of the story.
f) The introduction early in a story of verbal and dramatic hints that suggest what is to come later.
g) The central meaning or dominant idea in a literary work.
h) The distinctive and unique manner in which a writer arranges words to achieve particular effects.
i) A literary device that uses contradictory statements or situations to reveal a reality different from what appears to be true.
j) The physical and social context in which the action of a story occurs.
k) The struggle within the plot between opposing forces.
l) The main character of a narrative.
Type in your answers after each word by indicating the letter from above that matches the word:
1. Antagonist:
2. Conflict:
3. Flashback:
4. Foreshadowing:
5. Irony:
6. Narrator:
7. Plot:
8. Protagonist:
9. Setting:
10. Style:
11. Symbol:
12. Theme:
Section 2: Identify the correct response:
13. The narrator for “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” is:
a) 3rd person objective
b) 1st person character
c) Omniscient
d) Raymond Carver
14. The irony in this story is that the winner is stoned to death:
a) “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”
b) “The Guest”
c) “The Lottery”
d)The Stranger
15. The setting for this short story is late 19th century Paris:
a) “Araby”
b) “The Necklace”
c) “The Story of an Hour”
d) “Hills Like White Elephants”
16. This relationship can symbolize the relationship between the colonizer (France) and the colonized (Algeria):
a) Salamano and his dog
b) Meursault and Marie
c) Meursault and Raymond
d) Meursault and Maman
17. When the Grandmother in Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find” reads in the newspaper about “‘The Misfit […] aloose from the Federal Pen and headed toward Florida,'” it’s an example of ______________________________.
a) Conflict
b) Flashback
c) Foreshadowing
d) Setting
18. Identify the poem in which the following lines appear:
In the cold sea on the west
coast of northern Africa
I looked for the profile
of the continent to which
the slave ships went long ago.
a) “Diving Into the Wreck”
b) “The Drums of Marrakesh”
c) “My Papa’s Waltz”
d) “Metaphors”
19. This female protagonist goes to her room after hearing news of her husband’s death where “She could see in the open square before her the tops of trees that were all aquiver with new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which some one was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves”:
a) MathildeLoisel
b) Marie Cardona
c) Tessie Hutchinson
d) Louise Mallard
20. “She has a big dash of Africa, a Dash of Germany, some Cherokee, and heaven knows what else.” This line is from:
a) “Girl”
b) “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love”
c) “Woman from America”
d) The Meursault Investigation
21. During the back-and-forth conversation between the American and the girl in Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants,” the narrator states, “The girl stood up and walked to the end of the station. Across to the other side were field s of grain and trees along the banks of the Ebro. Far away, beyond the river, were the mountains.” This view symbolizes:
a) What Spain had to offer for future travel destinations.
b) What life will be like after she has the abortion.
c) What life could be like if the Jig and the American man stopped traveling and settled down.
d) What life was once like when she was even younger and living in Spain.
22. Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.” Who says this?
a) The speaker in “Diving into the Wreck’
b) The correspondent in “The Open Boat”
c) Harun in The Meursault Investigation
d) The protagonist and narrator in “Araby”
23. In this story, you are given handicaps if you are smart, beautiful, or gifted:
a) “Harrison Bergeron”
b) “Everyday Use”
c) “The Lesson”
d) None of the above
24. The setting of this story is the rural south in the 1970s:
a) “The Lottery”
b) “The Lesson”
c) “Everyday Use”
d) “A & P”
Section 3: Write short answers to 3 of the following (12 pts.). For each answer, provide exact evidence from the text to support your response. (ONLY DO 3)
25. Explain how Sammy in John Updike’s “A & P” is a flawed hero (i.e., an “antihero”).
http://brainstorm-services.com/wcu-2004/A&P.pdf
26. Early in Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat,” the narrator speaks of “Canton flannel gulls [that] flew near and far. Sometimes they sat down on the sea, near patches of brown sea-weed that rolled over the waves with a movement like carpets on a line in a gale. The birds sat comfortably in groups, and they were envied by some in the dingey, for the wrath of the sea was no more to them than it was to a covey of prairie chickens a thousand miles inland.” Explain what the quote suggests about relationship between humankind and nature.
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=Y2FsZHdlbGxzY2hvb2xzLm9yZ3xlbmcxNzV8Z3g6NmUxMmNiZjc1YzI3ZjEyZg
27. Toward the end of Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” the narrator states that the “grandmother’s head cleared for an instant, she saw the man’s face twisted close to her own as if he were going to cry and she murmured, ‘Why you’re one of my babies. You’re one of my own children!” Explain the significance of this moment in the story.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~drbr/goodman.html
28. In the final two lines of W. H. Auden’s “The Unknown Citizen,” the speaker states, “Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd:/Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.” Explain the significance of these lines in the poem.
https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Unknown_Citizen.pdf
29. Toward the end of Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl,” the narrator interjects the following: “but what if the baker won’t let me feel the bread?” Explain how this line captures the theme of the story?
http://www.saginaw-twp.k12.mi.us/view/8490.pdf
30. Explain why you think Daru, in Albert Camus’s “The Guest,” gives the Arab prisoner a choice to go to the prison in Tinguit or to the nomads.
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~dsbeckma/the%20guest%20by%20albert%20camus.pdf
Write an essay responding to it:3 PAGE
A) Compare the use of the words “All right” with “That’s right” in David Mamet’s Oleanna. From the opening phone conversation that John is immersed in to the final words of the play, one, the other, and sometimes both are found in the dialogue. By whom, when, and how are these words uttered, and why do they matter? Write an essay that answers these questions. Provide direct evidence from the play to support what you write.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3JkjphMA9GFU0JXcTQwMHBFbjQ/view
Follow MLA guidelines for citing the play and other sources in-text.
Do you not use any additional sources other than what is indicated in the directions for either essay choice.
