Modern Era Test

21 August 2022
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unlike modernist literature, postmodern literature was characterized by
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dark humor and paranoid characters
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during literary analysis, the writer reads a work and then
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responds to the work and develops his own ideas about it
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in yeats' poems "the second coming," the falcon and the falconer are images that most likely represent
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something out of control and unnatural
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based on yeats' poems "sailing to byzantium" and "when you are old," he most likely views old age and death as being
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sad and depressing
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free verse is often used by poets to
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help readers focus on the message rather than the structure
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the mood of the poem "the hollow men" can best be described as
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dark and somber
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in "the hollow men," what do the "hollow men" do together
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whisper
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line from "fern hill" "and honored among wagons I was prince of the apple towns."
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internal rhyme
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which of these demonstrates that "do not go gentle into that good night" is a villanelle?
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the first line of the poem is also the last line of the second and fourth tercets
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in "a shocking accident," when greene writes about jerome's father being killed by a falling pig, he is using humor of
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situation
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how is pathos represented in "a shocking accident"
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jerome learns of his father's true fate
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in "a shocking accident," what did jerome do when it was "neither too early nor too late"
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became engaged
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why is "shooting an elephant" by george orwell classified as a reflective essay?
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it describes orwell's feelings about personal experiences
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which sentence from "shooting an elephant" is an example of irony
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"the owner was furious, but was only an Indian and could do nothing
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the use of wordplay is a form of
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diction
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in stevie smith's poem "not waving but drowning," the dead man always loved
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larking
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in "the frog prince," from one hundred years, the frog prince has not
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shed many tears
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which sentence best describes the boy's character development in "a sunrise on the veld"
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the boy's innocence is shattered after he encounters something he can't control
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which of these examples from "a sunrise on the veld" shows kinesthetic imagery
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an let his head sink back till it was pillowed in his neck muscles
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in desai's story "a devoted son," rakesh insists on a strict diet for his father. based on info in the story, which best describes rakesh's motivation
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rakesh wants to use his knowledge to help his father
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what is ironic about the end of "a devoted son"
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the thing that made varma proud of his son- his medical accomplishments-is now taking away his own happiness