Blog

Which of the following characters in Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun is best identified as an “anti-assimilationist”?

  What does the town expect Emily to do with the arsenic she buys from the druggist?  

Although fiction and drama have much in common with poetry, the prominent role that individual words play in poetry is unique. By individual words, we do not just mean their particular meanings and implied meanings but also their sound, shape, and location. Terms such as word choice, word order, figures of speech, imagery, symbolism, and sound—and the various terms that fall under them—can help us describe a poem’s effect as well as how it may be creating that effect. Match each of the following terms to the corresponding description

  How much does the pistol that Jimmy Cross carries weigh?  

Match each term about poetry to the corresponding definition.

  What happens to Ted Lavender?  

  Which of the following is true of Homer Barron?  

  In “The Veldt,” what happens to George and Lydia Hadley?  

  In “A Jury of Her Peers,” what happened to Mrs. Wright’s bird?  

According to The Norton Introduction to Literature, stories often use setting to establish mood, situation, and character. Examine the following quotation from Eudora Welty’s short story “Why I Live at the P.O.”: Of course, there’s not much mail. My family are naturally the main people in China Grove. (par. 142) Which of the following does this quotation convey?