How did the British magazine and other foreigners characterize Americans?
as obsessed with race
Why did her professor think her book wasn't authentically African?
It was about middle class people, not about tribes or poverty, etc.
When Sindbad is dumped on a barren island, he says, "There is no strength or help save in __________."
Allah (God)
the area of literary exploration in which you might ask the question "How realistic is the story"?
literature and the world
Change this fragment into a sentence by taking out one word. When De'Shawn threw the pencil across the room.
Take out "when."
When X says, "What have you got?" at the end of the story, what does Syrita answer?
Nothing
What was one thing her roommate in college expected when she met her?
didn't speak English well, couldn't work a stove
The first person point of view uses this pronoun.
I, me
the area of literary exploration in which you might ask the question "How did the work affect society at the time it was written?"
literature and the reader
What punctuation does the sentence need?
Ella was too late to get on the train thus she stopped in the station for a cup of coffee.
semicolon before "thus"
Name one of the things Syrita was surprised to see in X's apartment
action figures, Matchbox cars, Legos, comic books
What showed that the messenger at the TV station loved her novel?
She told her she had to write a sequel and what should happen in it.
What did Sindbad have to do in order to get out of the valley of diamonds and snakes?
He climbed into a dead sheep carcass.
The four areas of exploration are literature and the reader, literature and the world, literature and itself, and literature and the ____________.
author
What's wrong with this sentence?
Robert watched the ball coming toward him and he raised his mitt to catch it.
comma before "and"
What does Syrita do at the end in order to try to call out the grace she thinks she sees in X?
She falls off the building.
"The consequence of a single story is that it robs people of _______________."
dignity
What does the big dome that Sindbad walks fifty paces around turn out to be?
the egg of a roc
Death and life are in the power of the ___________,
and those who love it will eat its fruits.
tongue
Explain when you use a comma before "and."
when there is a new subject after it, or when there is an independent clause (a whole sentence) after it.
What does Aristotle say about how heroes should make us feel about them?
that they are "one of us"?
What specific law did a female lawyer in Nigeria get abolished?
Women could not renew a passport without their husband's consent.
the word for literary exaggeration like when a rhino can spear an elephant and run around with it
hyperbole
One of the four things that the writer of Proverbs 30 considers too wonderful to explain
an eagle in the sky, a ship on the sea, a serpent on a rock, or the way of a man with a woman
Name the five words that must have a semicolon or period before them if they start a new clause.
Then, thus, therefore, besides, however