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In a large business hotel, [a]% of the guests read the Los Angeles Times, and only [b]% read the Wall Street Journal. Five present of guests read both papers. Suppose we select a hotel guest at random, what is the probability the person reads neither paper? Make a Venn diagram.

Setting is the physical location(s) where events in a story occur

In Eudora Welty’s short story “Why I Live at the P.O.” the character Sister is characterized at the beginning of the story as blaming others for her troubles. At the end of the story, Sister expresses the same outlook, promising not even to listen to her younger sister should she want to apologize. Based on this description, what type of character—dynamic character, flat character, scapegoat, or static character—is Sister? The relevant information for answering the question can be found within the example alone; it is not necessary to know other information about the story.

Match each of the following terms about narration and point of view to the corresponding definition.

Classify the quotation from Guy De Maupassant’s short story “The Jewelry” by which type it best exemplifies:   “It was true…her sweet grace, her irresistible grace, ever smiling and shy, seemed to take fresh charm from the simplicity of her robes” (par. 8).

The Norton Introduction to Literature recommends considering many different possible ways that a story can establish a character. Match each of the following general methods of characterization to the quotation taken from Susan Glaspell’s “A Jury of Her Peers” that best demonstrates it. The relevant information for answering the question can be found within the example alone; it is not necessary to know other information about the story.

Match each of the following types of characters with the corresponding qualities that define them

As discussed in The Norton Introduction to Literature, it can be easy to confuse terms such as narrator and implied author when we are discussing or writing about literature. However, using the appropriate terms helps make our interpretations clearer and more accurate. Match each of the following terms to the corresponding description.

A story with multiple particular settings can still have a general setting in which the events of the plot unfold. Classify each of the following descriptions of setting in Guy de Maupassant’s short story “The Jewelry” by whether it describes a particular setting or general setting. Assume that the details from the story are accurate. The relevant information for answering the question can be found within the example alone; it is not necessary to know other information about the story.   M. Lantin and his wife live in central Paris in the late 1800s.

Match each of the following parts of plot with the corresponding definition.