Chopin & Truth
What is the MAIN conflict in The Story of an Hour?
Person vs. Self
In, "To My Old Master", the narrator says he is focused on giving his children this
an education
What was a major reason Harlem became an epicenter for migration?
Industrialization and/or escaping oppression
Worker's rights/conditions for workers
What type of sonnet is the poem, "If We Must Die"
Shakespearean
In her speech, Truth is careful not to equate having rights with this characteristic
Intelligence or level of education
What is the tone of the following line from "To My Old Master"?
"Say howdy to George Carter, and thank him for taking the pistol from you when you were shooting at me."
Sarcastic
To what does the author compare herself in "How it Feels to be Colored Me"?
A bag
What was the primary motivation for the conditions at the factories described in The Jungle?
Profit
This branch of realism is marked by its use of "local color"
Regionalism
This is symbolic of Mrs. Mallard's husband's freedom
the train he was supposedly on that crashed
"To My Old Master" is best categorized as this type/genre of writing
Satire
The Poem "My city" is this type of Sonnet
Petrarchan Sonnet
How would the factories mark sausage in order to charge 2 cents more per pound?
"Special"
This branch of Realism believes nature is indifferent to human suffering.
Naturalism
Which persuasive strategy does Truth use when she says the following to support her argument, "When Lazarus died, Mary and Martha came to him with faith and love and besought him to raise their brother... And how came Jesus into the world?"
She quotes the Bible for ethos
"He closed his eyes in order to fix his last thoughts upon his wife and children." This quote from part 1 serves to foreshadow what later in the story
Farquhar's thoughts of his wife before he dies
Metaphor
The workers' fingers were eaten/eroded by
acid from pickling
This is Mrs. Moss' favorite color.
Green!
This literary device occurs when Mrs. Mallard's sister Josephine is worried that she is too sad to open the door of her room. (BE SPECIFIC!)
dramatic irony
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge begins with this POV in Part I (be specific!!!)
Third person omniscient
What is the bond Black Americans have shared in the past, according to Locke? What is the bond in Harlem?
A shared problem - A shared life
Sinclair famously said, "I aimed for the ___________, and by accident _________."
"I aimed for the public's heart and by accident hit it in the stomach."
Name the full name of the author of "How it Feels to Be Colored Me:
Zora Neale Hurston