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"Imagery and the Research Paper:"
When writing an essay or research paper where does the thesis go?
at the end of your first paragraph and at the beginning of your conclusion paragraph
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"The River Merchant's Wife... "
The image of the wife pulling flowers as a child is meant to express
that she is mischievious
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"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Prufrock's view of himself
is unable to take risks
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When Prufrock says, I am not Hamlet, nor was meant to be;/am an attendant lord..."
He meant that he was not hero, but just a minor character on the stage of his own life
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Prufrock's dramatic monologue enables the reader to
following the stream of Prufrock's rambling thoughts
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Like all dramatic monologues, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Is told in the first person
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"The Red Wheelbarrow..."
William's poems can be called imagist
because they give imagery primary importance
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To describe the images in The Red Wheelbarrow
Williams uses colors and simple language
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The images in the great figure primarily appeal to readers' senses of
sight and hearing
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The Red Wheelbarrow depicts
a realistic scene
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The Speaker in the Red Wheelbarrow emphasizes the importance of
ordinary things
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The poem The Great Figure creates an overall impression of
dramatic action
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The main images in This is Just to say are ones of
sweetness and cold
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This is Just to Say is mainly about
The wonder of everyday things
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William Carlos Williams's poems can best be described as
deceptively simple
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"Soldier's Home"
Wartime combat can be so devastating that it changes one completely
is the best theme of Soldier's Home
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Krebs can best be described as
a person who has lost his goals and the energy to pursue them
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When he returns home
Krebs finds that he must lie to be listened to
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In his 1954 Nobel Prize acceptance speech Hemingway expresses both an awareness of great writers who came before him and a need to exceed their accomplishments. In Soldier's home he succeeded by writing one of the
first real descriptions of postwar disillusionment
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What traits mark Krebs as an antihero rather than a hero?
He is dissillusioned and has lost a sense of purpose
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"Winter Dreams"
What is Dexter's motivation for pursuing Judy?
He sees her as a symbol of "the best"
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Dexter Green can best be described as
ambitious and full of desires
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Judy Jones can be described as
confident and condescending
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What happens to Dexter and Judy's engagement?
Judy breaks off the engagement
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What is Dexter's eventual attitude toward Judy's flirtations with men?
He does not condemn Judy for her flirtations
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At the end of the story, Winter Dreams, tears stream down Dexter's face because
he is mourning the loss of a dream or ideal
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"A Rose for Emily "
The emotions a reader might be expected to feel toward Emily include
pity and horror
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After her father dies
Emily refuses to acknowledge his death
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The strand go gray hair discovered at the end of the story implies
that Emily has lain beside the skeleton
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To influence the development of her character
Emily's father drives off suitors and prevents her from marrying
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Which of Homer Barron's actions of enraging her be rejecting Emily has the greatest effect
the development of Emily's character
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"The Feather Pillow"
At the beginning of The Feather Pillow what give the young bride hot and cold shivers
her honeymoon
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The doctors are unable to find out
what is wrong with Alicia
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In the depths of her illness
Alicia imagines she sees her husband trying to kill her
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What causes Alicia's death
a horrible little creature
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What does the feather pillow have to do with Alicia's death?
in the feathers lives a parasite that sucks Alicia's blood
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One gothic theme that can be found in both The Feather Pillow and A Rose for Emily
is the house with the secret evil
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Then her sobs subsided and she stood a long while her face hidden in the hollow of his neck not moving or speaking a word
helps you predict the outcome of this story
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"Knowing the Items About the Modern Era of Writing:"
Until the beginning of the twentieth century all the following attitudes were a part of the American Dream
belief in the United States as a new Eden with limitless resources, trust in the ultimate triumph of any self-reliant individual and faith in the country;s progress toward prosperity
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In the period after World War I American writers began to
grow cynical about traditional authority and values
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The modernist movement challenged American writers to
find new themes, styles and subjects
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American modernists created a literature that
reflected a variety of American voices
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According to the imagists, what aspect of a poem should carry the meaning and emotions?
sensory images
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"A Worn Path"
On her journey
Phoneix comes upon a hunter and his dog
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Throughout her journey
Phoenix is determined to keep going
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The main theme of a Worn Path can be be expressed
as strong devotion helps people continue on a difficult journey
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One theme of this story can best be compared to a particular archetype of the journey
which might be characterized as a long trail with obstacles and challanges
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"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"
Granny Weatherall's life can best be described
as long years of hard work on a homestead
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Granny Weatherall's attitude can best be described
as resolute and determined
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The story is told from the point of view
of Ellen Weatherall
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Katherine Anne Porter uses the stream-of-consciousness technique to allow the reader to
get inside Granny's head
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Porter's use of stream of consciousness allows the reader to
contrast Granny Weatherall's thoughts and reality
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A passage in the story that could only be part to the stream of consciousness is
So my dear Lord, this is my death and I wasn't even thinking about it
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"Ethan Frome"
The narrator fails to learn the whole story of Ethan Frome from the people in Starkfield because
It is too painful to remember
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The main reason that Ethan decides to let Mattie go is that Mattie
keeps Ethan from caring for the farm and mill
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Harmon Gow calls Ethan one of the Smart Ones because Ethan
seeks larger meanings under the surface of things
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Ethan decised that he cannot run off with Mattie after all because
he can't afford it
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Ethan spends a period of his life in almost total silence because
his mother is too sickly to speak
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Symbolic meanings may be seen in
the pickle dish and the missing "L" of Ethan's farmhouse
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Mrs. Hale's comment, "You've had an awful mean time Ethan Frome."
helps Ethan to make peace with Zeena
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Ethan defies Zeena when he
spends the night in his study
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Ethan asked Zeena to Marry him principally because he
Can't face being left alone on the farm
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Ethan leads a sad life because that comes to an unhappy end largely due to
bad decisions
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When Ethan tells Mattie to "Come Along" he
is showing his jealousy of Dennis Eady
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Mattie does not realize the Ethan loves her because
he is married
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Ethan feels it is necessary to lie to Zeena about
collecting money from Mr. Hale
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Allusions to death and dying occur throughout the novel because
winter is lifeless
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What Ethan likes best about his evening with Mattie is
pretending to be married to her
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Ethan suspects that Zeena went to Bettsbridge
as part of a scheme to get rid of Mattie, to prove to him that she was very sick and to lay a trap for Mattie and him
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Seeing Ruth and Ned kissing under the spruces
makes Ethan envious of their happiness
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Ethan realizes that he will never leave Starkfield after
he marries Zeena
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