Semester B FINAL EXAM REVIEW

When an author uses a concrete object to represent an idea or emotion, it is called

Wong's grandmother embarrasses her in "The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl" by

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The Puerto Rican sisters in "I Want to Be Miss América" try to

An author’s attitude toward his or her subject in a piece of writing is

Identify the sentence that uses a modifier correctly.

Mount Everest, __________ is the tallest mountain in the world, has provided a challenging adventure for many climbers.

The nonfiction novel was a creation of __________ writers.

An elliptical clause is a(n) ______________ clause in which words are missing.

Based on what you’ve learned about the authors’ styles, match each excerpt with its author from the list below.

Berlin laughs uncontrollably in "Where Have You Gone, Charming Billy?" because he finds Billy's death

The works of both modernist and postmodern writers tended to be highly

Last night, the man ________ told me about the meteor shower was at the same park as we were.

Compared to the other wounded soldiers, the narrator in Ernest Hemingway's "In Another Country" believes he is

Brianna signed up for skydiving lessons, even though her family tried to *dissuade her.

44. Using either “I Want to Be Miss America” or “The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl,” analyze how stereotypes...

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After hearing horror stories, the babysitter was relieved to find the children so *compliant.

Based on what you’ve learned about the authors’ styles, match each excerpt with its author from the list below.

From the phrase "even in the boy's ten years" in line 2, you can infer that the family

Like the modernists, postmodern writers focused on _________experience and emphasized the effects of cultural divisions.

Based on what you’ve learned about the authors’ styles, match each excerpt with its author from the list below.

Read the sentence below. Identify the correct past form or past participle of the underlined verb.

Identify the infinitive phrase: Gilbert Stuart was happy to entertain his friends lavishly.

Based on what you’ve learned about the authors’ styles, match each excerpt with its author from the list below.

Choose the correct tense of the underlined verb. All of these trees will produce apples in the fall.

Based on what you’ve learned about the authors’ styles, match each excerpt with its author from the list below.

The last paragraph is an example of hyperbole because

(Line 17) When the father talks about the man who will "own" him, he is talking about his

Tobias Wolff most likely named his short story "Mortals" because the story explores the theme of people

What does Kurt Vonnegut use in his story "Harrison Bergeron" to criticize society's attempts to make everyone equal?

In "The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl," why is Wong embarrassed to go with her grandmother to an American store?

45. Choose any two characters studied in Semester B, and compare them to one another.

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Which of the following conflicts influenced modernist writers?

43.Explain the title “Life on the Color Line.” Your response should be 2–3 sentences in length.

Identify the sentence that uses a modifier correctly.

Which of the following uses allegory to symbolize something deeply spiritual or to present a moral lesson?

In “Babylon Revisited,” why did F. Scott Fitzgerald choose the title to be metaphoric of Paris?

Why does the narrator in Langston Hughes's short story "Why, You Reckon?" agree to rob a white person?

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Which word best describes the boy based on the descriptions in the last paragraph?

Which kind of nonfiction writing is an autobiographical account of one person's experiences?

Read the sentence below. Identify the progressive or emphatic verb tense that is used in the sentence.

Subjective experience and concerns about cultural divisions were topics embraced by __________ writers.

Identify the sentence that uses a modifier correctly.

After three nights stranded on the narrow cliff, the two climbers *dolefully split the last granola bar between them.

Which of the following statements describes poetry in the 1960s?

What was the Harlem Renaissance?

Reality TV stars are often described using the *pejorative phrase “famous for being famous."

The Harlem Renaissance was a rebirth of the __________ of the African American community.

The last paragraph contains an example of

46. Write an essay about how the literature of America has changed over time, as seen in this semester’s readings.

The secret message was written with a special pen, making it *indiscernible under normal light.

The log cabin __________ we stayed in was built by a settler in the 1800s.

The title "Babylon Revisited" is a metaphor because it speaks to the

Which of the following statements is true of poetry in the 1960s?

Whom is the speaker in "Sure You Can Ask Me a Personal Question" speaking to?

Langston Hughes and Ralph Ellison wrote about the disparity of African Americans in the __________ literary era.

In a memoir, a person writes

Which of the following is true of the beat generation?

Which genre of writing was invented during the postmodernist movement?

"Sure You Can Ask Me A Personal Question" is written as a