Chapter6️⃣

Question 1

A type of essay in which the writer adopts a impersonal, authoritative tone and models a highly organized structure.

Answer 1

Formal essay

Question 2

A type of essay in which the writer adopts a friendly or conversational tone with the reader. This is also known as a personal essay.

Answer 2

Informal essay

Question 3

A brief work of prose or fiction.

Answer 3

Short story

Question 4

A sieges of events arranged to produce a definite sense of movement toward a specific goal.

Answer 4

Plot

Question 5

The secondary plot within a piece of literature that accompanies the main plot yet is lesser in importance or significant.

Answer 5

Subplot

Question 6

The part of the stories plot that introduces the reader to the setting, characters, and situation.

Answer 6

Exposition

Question 7

The occurrence that sets the events of the conflict in motion.

Answer 7

Inciting incident

Question 8

The events that lead up to the crisis of the story.

Answer 8

Rising action

Question 9

The plots major turning point at which something happens that affects the outcome of the story and determines the future of the main character.

Answer 9

Crisis

Question 10

The plots moment of highest emotional intensity.

Answer 10

Climax

Question 11

The events that unfold the results of the crisis and lead to the conclusion.

Answer 11

Falling action

Question 12

The last element of the plot in which the major complications are explained or settled.

Answer 12

Denouement

Question 13

The perspective of angle in which a story is told.

Answer 13

Point of view

Question 14

The narrator tells his story in third person, and the storyteller he “knows all”.

Answer 14

Omniscient point of view

Question 15

The narrator tells the story in third person but “gets inside” only one of the characters, usually the central character.

Answer 15

Limited omniscient point of view

Question 16

The narrator, one of the stories characters, refers to himself as “I” through out the whole piece.

Answer 16

First person point of view

Question 17

Characteristics of a essay:

Answer 17

• it’s a short prose composition
• it discusses a particular topic in a non-technical way
• it expresses the thoughts and opinions of the writer

Question 18

What are the two short prose genres most frequently used in literature today?

Answer 18

• essay

- short story

Question 19

How do informal essays differ?

Answer 19

In voice, tone, and structure

Question 20

Are essays fictional or non fictional?

Answer 20

Non

Question 21

Short stories contain the _____ as the novel.

Answer 21

Same basic elements

Question 22

From the authors and readers viewpoints, the strengths of the short stories compared to novels is:

Answer 22

• they resolve conflict and communicate the theme more quickly
• they can more easily drive home one main theme
• they are easier to read

Question 23

In how things get done, what is it written in?

Answer 23

First person point of view

Question 24

What does how to get things done exhibit?

Answer 24

Verbal and structural irony

Question 25

What does how to get things done qualify as?

Answer 25

And informal essay because it is humorous and light in tone, the voice is that of the writers chatting to acquaintances and the structure is less methodically organized and more relaxed.

Question 26

Who wrote how to get things done?

Answer 26

Robert Benchley

Question 27

Who wrote a miserable merry Christmas?

Answer 27

Lincoln Steffens

Question 28

What is a missersble merry Christmas written in?

Answer 28

First person point of view

Question 29

What is the title in a missersble merry Christmas a good illustration of?

Answer 29

Paradox

Question 30

What does a missersble merry Christmas include?

Answer 30

Situational irony and foreshadowing

Question 31

What is the climax of a miserable merry Christmas?

Answer 31

When Linnie's pony is delivered to the house

Question 32

Who is a old fashioned Iowa Christmas written by?

Answer 32

Paul engle

Question 33

What is the tone best discribe as in an old fashioned Iowa Christmas?

Answer 33

Nostalgic

Question 34

Where does engle use syntactical parallelism in an old fashioned Iowa Christmas?

Answer 34

Departures, streets, arrivals, and Christmas dinners

Question 35

What does a old fashioned Iowa Christmas emphasize?

Answer 35

Imagery

Question 36

Who wrote why the leaves turn color in the fall?

Answer 36

Dianne Ackerman

Question 37

What literary device does why the leaves turn color in the fall use?

Answer 37

Metaphor, personification, and alliteration

Question 38

What type of essay is why the leaves turn color in the fall?

Answer 38

Formal and scientific

Question 39

A work that seeks to state a point of view, discuss a subject, or pursuade a reader to accept an argument.

Answer 39

Essay

Question 40

In the sire story Blanches name indicates what following characteristics?

Answer 40

Fear, anxiety, youth, beauty, deceit, and hypocrisy

Question 41

The sire story, presents what?

Answer 41

A nineteenth century romantic view of love

Question 42

Are all the christens sypmathetic?

Answer 42

No

Question 43

In the speckled band, uses what to explain stoners reason for meeting Holmes?

Answer 43

Flashback

Question 44

What is the crisis of the speckled band?

Answer 44

Holmes fighting the snake

Question 45

What does Doyle use to create more suspense?

Answer 45

First person point of view told by Watson because Watson lacks Holmes abilities and sees the action of the story but does not understand the significance. The readers don't get the story un till Holmes explains it to Watson

Question 46

How does welty describe Addie?

Answer 46

As a lamb

Question 47

What is weltys tone toward Marian?

Answer 47

Disapproving

Question 48

What is charity an example of?

Answer 48

Verbal irony

Question 49

What is a the apple symbolic to?

Answer 49

The forbidden fruit eaten by Adam and Eve. Her taking a bite symbolizes her refusing to give charity and her loss of innocence.

Question 50

What is Marian's coat an allusion to?

Answer 50

Little red riding hood

Question 51

What are the major themes of charity?

Answer 51

True charity prevents isolation and loneliness, realities that we all will deal with at some point in our lives. We must all come to grips with the power of charity, choosing whether we will extend charity to others and accept it from then or not.

Question 52

What is the source and significance of the title of civil peace?

Answer 52

The leader of the thieves says, ironacly, that the civil war is replaced by civil peace. The significance lies in the irony. The theif makes the statement while engaging in lawless behavior. He knows that while the civil war has ended things are not quite back to normal civilization get. There is no one to protect Johnathan and his family. No police or solders, or neighbors who are willing to help.

Question 53

What is the theme of civil peace?

Answer 53

The right attitudes and character qualities enable one to overcome tradgy.

Question 54

What kind of character is johnathan?

Answer 54

Static

Question 55

What is prized by Jonathan?

Answer 55

His bike

Question 56

What does Jonathan do in obstacles?

Answer 56

He repeats the statement nothing puzzles God.