Sredni Vashtar
In the third sentence of the final paragraph, the "disused tool-shed" functions primarily as a setting in which Conradin
What is discovers meaningful solitude
Lines 27-28 (Their... to me") emphasize the speaker's sense that her
What is past life and true identity are always present
According to Tom, the presence of the "gentleman caller" mentioned in the fifth paragraph reinforces a conflict between
What is waiting and fulfillment
In "Letter Home," which of the following does the speaker imply about her "plain English and good writing" (Line 6)
What is that she had mistakenly believed that these skills would be sufficient to get her job
“Good-bye is the waving map of your palm, is a stone on my tongue.”
What literary device is being used?
What is metaphor
Which of the following effects does the "large polecat-ferret" mentioned toward the end of the final paragraph have on the development of Conradin's character?
What is it fulfills is Conradin's imaginative ideal because he is able transform it into "a god and a religion" (paragraph 3)
Overall, the poem can best be interpreted as a
What is a social commentary using a historical period
Which details from the passage would best support a reader's interpretation that escape is a central theme of the passage
What is Tom's description of the gentleman caller and his reference to the postcard from Mazatlan
In the "The Glass Menagerie" the specific references to time ("the thirties") and place ("Spain," "Chicago, Cleveland, Saint Louis") primarly serves to
What is reinforce notion that the play is part of a "world of reality" (paragraph 5) that will be reconstructed from "memory" (paragraph 5) that will be reconstructed from "memory" (paragraph 4)
In "Sredni Vashtar," Conradin’s tool-shed is called “a playroom and a cathedral.” What device does this show?
What is metaphor
In the third of the first paragraph, the narrator's description of Mrs. De Ropp as "those three-fifths of the world that are necessary are disagreeable and real" suggests that
What is Mrs. De Ropp is a strict person who fails to appreciate Conradin's creative spirit
In kines 21-40 ("There... home"), the speaker's juxtaposition of her life in New Orleans with her life at "home" primarily serves to emphasize
What is a harsh reality of her situation.
In the fifth paragraph, Tom's description of the "gentleman caller" has which effect?
What is it prompts Tom to admit that he is prone to attaching figurative meaning to characters
In "Srendi Vashtar" toward the end of the final paragraph, Conradin's "exchange" of "a long-secreted hoard of small silver" with the butcher-boy significant because it
What is develops the idea that Conradin finds joy in acts that would be displeasing to Mrs. De Ropp
Tom calls the gentleman caller a symbol for “the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for.” What device is he using?
What is symbolism
Which lines from the passage would best support a reader's claim that one of the central themes of the passage is independence?
"Such few pleasures as he could contrive for himself gained an added relish from the likelihood that they would be displeasing to his guardian, and from the realm of his imagination she was locked out-an unclean thing, which should have find no entrance" (paragraph 2)
What is a source of the internal conflict acknowledged by the speaker?
What is she realizes that her race and gender will make it difficult for her to achieve her goals
In the first paragraph, Tom's claim that he is "the opposite of a stage magician" and that he tells the "truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion" suggests that he
What is will the "truth" in a way that his audience can accept
This object, hidden in the tool-shed and acquired through an “exchange” with a butcher-boy, becomes both a secret source of imaginative power and a symbol of defiance for Conradin, even though it terrifies him.
What is the polecat-ferret
The setting of "The Glass Menagerie" is described as “dimly lighted” and “sentimental,” matching the way memories feel. What device is this?
What is imagery
The second paragraph ("Mrs. De Ropp... entrance") suggests that Conradin is able to cope with his situation primarily by
Lines 29-34 ("I thought... ends") suggest that the speaker inmitated Miss J-primarily because she
What is regarded speech like Miss J-'s as a means of self improvment
In the sixth paragraph, the description of Tom's father, the "fifth character in the play," introduces what idea?
According to Tom, this character is used as a symbol of “the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for,” and his presence in the play reinforces the conflict between waiting and fulfillment.
Who is the gentleman caller
When Tom from "The Glass Menagerie" says, “I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion,” what literary device is this?
What is paradox