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This character came back from Illinois to visit her family in China Grove.
Who is Stella-Rondo from "Why I Live at the P.O." by Eudora Welty?
100
POV: When the narrator is a dramatized character who writes in the first person.
What is a participant.
100
Which author is from Boston and attended the University of Virginia?
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
100
"At twelve o'clock the day was at its brightest. Yet the sun was too far south on its winter journey to clear the horizon..."
What is "To Build a Fire" by Jack London?
100
The time and place of a story.
What is setting?
200
"True!--nervous--very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses--not destroyed--not dulled them..."
Who is the narrator from a "Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe?
200
POV: This type of narrator sees into the minds of any or all of the characters, moving when necessary from one to another.
What is all-knowing or omniscient?
200
Name something else written by Jack London.
What is "The Call of the Wild?"
200
"Upon the eigth night I was more than usually cautious in opening the door. A watch's minute hand moves more quickly than did mine..."
What is "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe?
200
A way of speaking that is characteristic of a specific group or place. Word choice and vocabulary.
What is diction?
300
Who were the 2 characters trapped in a house because of a major storm?
Who are Calixta and Alcee?
300
These characters change significantly (internally) during the course of a narrative.
What are dynamic characters?
300
A type of fictionin which the characters are presented as products or victims of environment and heredity. An extreme form of of realism.
What is Naturalism?
300
"It was after sundown when they reached home. They are supper by lamplight, then, sitting on the doorstep, the boy watched the night fully accomplished, listening to the whippoorwills and the frogs when he hear his mother's voice..."
What is "Barn Burning" by William Faulkner?
300
The location where a story takes place.
What is the locale?
400
Who/What can be viewed as the protagonist in "To Build a Fire" by Jack London?
What is the weather?
400
The dominant mood or feeling that pervades all or part of a literary work and is the total effect conveyed by the author's use of language, images, and physical setting.
What is atmosphere?
400
Metaphorically, what rainbows typically represent.
What is a divine pact or peace between heaven and earth?
400
"The landscape has become gray, filled with low flat cement buildings, old factories, and then tracks and more tracks filled with trains like ours passing by in the opposite direction..."
What is "A Pair of Tickets" by Amy Tan?
400
This kind of characterization tells the audience what the personality of the character is.
What is direct characterization?
500
"I was a sophomore at Galileo High in San Francisco, and all my Caucasiam friends agree: I was about as Chinese as they were..."
Who is Jing-Mei Woo (June May)?
500
A narrator who--intentionally or unintentionally--relates events in a subjective or distorted manor. The author usually provides some indication that the narrator is not to be trusted.
What is an Unreliable Narrator?
500
The first names of the Grimm Brothers spelled correctly.
What are Jakob and Wilhem?
500
"It was a bug, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most select street..."
What is "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner?
500
All the distinctive ways in which an author uses language to create a literary work.
What is Style?
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