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The Secret Life of Bees
Lily believes that she shot her mother. T/F |
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molar cuff links
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Meyer Wolfshiem
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The "very sad" event in his life to which Gatsby refers is
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Daisy's marriage to another man
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The Secret Life of Bees
The Boatwright house is pink because June picked out the color T/F |
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Tom's reaction to Gatsby's charge that Daisy doesn't love him is
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disbelief
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the golden Girl
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Daisy Buchanan
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tennis shoes left behind
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Ewing Klipspringer
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"The Story of an Hour"
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Kate Chopin
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"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
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Ambrose Bierce
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writing that is meant to evoke laughter
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humor
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Mrs. Desmond Spring 2007
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cut apart and study
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The Secret Life of Bees
Lily compares her marriage to her life with T Ray. T/F |
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"The Outcasts of Poker Flat"
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Bret Harte
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The Secret Life of Bees
T Ray does not have many redeemable qualities T/F |
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Charlotte's Web
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E.B. White
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The quotation at the beginning of the book that refers to the "gold-hated lover" is directed toward
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Gatsby
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"The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calavaras County"
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Mark Twain
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The narrator depicts Tom and Daisy as being
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destructive
careless selfish |
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George Wilson becomes aware of his wife's affair when
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he finds the dog collar
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The Great Gatsby
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Daisy doesn't stop after the accident because
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she can't
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brute, hulking, aggressive
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Tom Buchanan
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from Nature
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Ralph W. Emerson
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Tom Buchanan and Myrtle Wildon are examples of
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flat characters
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Nick is distressed after Gatsby's death because Gatsby's friends are
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apathetic
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realizes he is thirty at the novel's climax
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Nick Carraway
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dishonest
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Jordan Baker
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Secret Life of Bees
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Sue Monk-Kidd
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Which character possesses fundamental decencies
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George Wilson
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technique where the reader sees things as if they are coming directly from the character's mind
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stream of consciousness
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mowed down by materialism
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Myrtle Wilson
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The Secret Life of Bees
The pink house is symbolic for a hive or womb. t/F |
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symbolizes success of the American Dream
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Jay Gatsby
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The Secret Life of Bees
The novel takes place in the 1950's t/F |
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symbolizes the failure of the American Dream
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The Wilsons
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"To Build a Fire"
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Jack London
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The Secret Life of Bees
Lily Owens is a white girl who has some money since her dad owns a peach farm T/F |
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The Secret Life of Bees
When the novel opens, Lily is fourteen years old T/F |
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Walden
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Henry David Thoreau
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The Secret Life of Bees
Rosaleen functions as both a friend and guardian of Lily's T/F |
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The Secret Life of Bees
One of the themes of the novel is Lily's search for goodness within her father T/F |
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The Secret Life of Bees
August Boatwright functions as a possible queen bee of the novel.T/F |
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The Secret Life of Bees
The Martha Whites are a form of punishment T/F |
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The Secret Life of Bees
Rosaleen ends up in the hospital because men beat her up on the street. T/F |
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Gatsby and Nick are examples of
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round characters
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The Good Earth
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Pearl S. Buck
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anemic, thin
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George Wilson
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The Red Badge of Courage
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Stephen Crane
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The Secret Life of Bees
Lily's attempt to capture bees in a jar is a symbol of her troubled past. T/F |
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The Secret Life of Bees
Three thematic elements of the novel are self-realization, understanding of life, and female resistance. T/F |
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"I caught a fish this big" is an example of
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exaggeration
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author's perspective towar his/her work
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tone
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contrast between what is expected and what actually happens
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irony
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characters who are mirrow opposites
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foils
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formal addressing of an object
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apostrophe
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Local color/regionalism falls predominantly here
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realism
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clash between opposing forces
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conflict
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mannerisms, dress, etc. of an area
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local color
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"An Occurrence at Owl Creek" narration
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3rd person limited
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a work in which every aspect can be interpreted on a symbolic level
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allegory
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includes innovative techniques and experimantation
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modernism
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writer's method of putting his/her thoughts into words
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style
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writing focusing on specific geographic locations
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regionalism
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Which style of writing has intuition over intellect?
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romanticism
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"I an't goin' today" is an example of
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dialect
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technique used in stream of consciousness when events are not in chronological order
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flashback
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tried to find the meaningful or interesting in the ordinary
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realism
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godlike narration
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3rd person omniscient
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central message or insight of a literary work
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theme
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the act of creating a character
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characterization
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intended exaggeration
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hyprbole
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irony where the characters do not know what is occurring, but the reader does
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dramatic irony
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believed in cohabitation between man and nature
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transcendentalism
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called a "slice of life"
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realism
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a narrator that shows no emotion
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deadpan narrator
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believed that man's future was left up to fate
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naturalism
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believed in the Over-Soul
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transcendentalism
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Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams' is an example of
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modernism
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believed that environment, heredity, and chance determine fate
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naturalism
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irony where the audience and the characters do not foresee the action
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situational irony
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believed in nonconformity and passive resistance to injustice
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transcendentilism
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Heminway wrote in a ______________ style
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modernistic
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Emily Dickinson does not belong in this group, but the fireside poets do
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transcendentalism
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What style of writing shows that men ususally behave with strength and dignity in times of stress
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naturalism
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