Thank You M'am
After Twenty Years
To Build a Fire
Seeing Off a Friend
Literary Terms
100

Who is the author?

Langston Hughes

100

What are the three characteristics of the Enlightenment?

Science, reason, and logic

100

What is the setting? 

Yukon Territory

100

Who is the author?

Li Bai

100

Theme 

The subject of a text

200

Where is the tone shift in the story?

When Mrs. Bates realizes that Roger is not taken care of 

200

What irony is used in "After Twenty Years"? (two kinds)

Verbal and Situational

200

According to Naturalism, humans are just animals with no ________.

Free Will

200

The length of the poem reflects what quality of Chinese poetry?

Simplicity

200

Mood

The feeling a text provokes in the reader

300

What does the length of Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones’s name symbolize about her character?

She has confidence and strength

300

How is Bob, the man waiting, characterized?

Egotistical, criminal, and unaware

300

How does the story uphold the Naturalistic philosophy that instinct is better than knowledge?

The dog lives

300

The poet uses the symbolism of green mountains and white waters to represent what?

Calm and Chaos

300

Imagery 

Language that appeals to the 5 senses

400

Why does Mrs. Bates not take Roger to jail?

Roger is a young child who does not know right from wrong. She wants to teach him.

400

What does this story say about friendship and life?

Friendship and life will change. 

400

The Prometheus Myth is used to support fire as a symbol of what?

Life

400

What is the prevalent emotion that the imagery helps to convey?

Melancholy 

400

Irony

Is a difference between the expectation and the reality of a situation

500

How does this story reflect on the values of the Harlem Renaissance and the author?

Respect and decency transcend all races and classes

500

How does symbolism in the story reflect the literary time period?

Light is used to reveal the true nature of things just as the enlightenment sought the true nature of the world.

500

From a thematic perspective, what causes the man to die?

His lack of knowledge

500

How does the image of the sunset reflect the theme?

Changes in life are as natural as Nature's courses 

500

Symbol

A thing that represents or stands for something else

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