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200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 Authors “Richard” “Miniver” “Soldier’s Home” “Prufrock” “Life You Save”
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Ernest Hemingway Topics most of his stories were about
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Ernest Hemingway Answer: What is war and hunting (fishing)
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Edwin Arlington Robinson Person interested in Robinson’s writing, who also got him a better job
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Edwin Arlington Robinson Answer: Who is President Theodore Roosevelt
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T.S. Eliot Title of Eliot’s most famous poem, some even considered it a major poem of the 20th century
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T.S. Eliot Answer: What is “The Waste Land”
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Flannery O’Connor Two attractions she focused on in her writings to prove that people were straying from God
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Flannery O’Connor Answer: What is the grotesque and violent
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Edwin Arlington Robinson One of the two strengths that distinguished Robinson as a writer
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Edwin Arlington Robinson Answer: What is his native voice -or- his ironic view of human behavior
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“Richard Cory” One reason people of the town look up to Cory
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“Richard Cory” Answer: What is he’s wealthy, clean, slim, quiet, human when he talked
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“Richard Cory” Event that happened at the end of the poem
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“Richard Cory” Answer: What is killed himself
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“Miniver Cheevy” Miniver’s wish
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“Miniver Cheevy” Answer: What is to live in the medieval time period
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“Miniver Cheevy” The theme of “Miniver Cheevy”
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“Miniver Cheevy” Answer: What is wishing for the impossible leads to failure and misery
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“Miniver Cheevy” The etymology of the word Miniver
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“Miniver Cheevy” Answer: What is the white fur trim, sometimes ermine, seen on the costumes of royalty in medieval and Renaissance portraits
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“Soldier’s Home” The main character’s name
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“Soldier’s Home” Answer: What is Harold Krebs
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“Soldier’s Home” Reason he doesn’t want a girl in America
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“Soldier’s Home” Answer: What is he doesn’t want the work and the consequences
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“Soldier’s Home” Theme of the story
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“Soldier’s Home” Answer: What is war changes people
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“Soldier’s Home” Two ways Krebs has changed
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“Soldier’s Home” Answer: What is: -He can’t show emotion (can’t love) -Doesn’t want consequences (women) -Lost religion (can’t pray)
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“Soldier’s Home” One belief of the war by the townspeople and how it is proven incorrect
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“Soldier’s Home” Answer: What is: -They can get women from the area -reality- they aren’t that pretty -War is all blood and guts -reality- Krebs has to make up stories to keep interests -Soldiers can just go back to the way things were -reality- Krebs can’t get his life back on track
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“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” Two things Prufrock is self conscious of
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“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” Answer: What is his bald spot, skinny arms and legs, lack of communication skills, being too old, being stereotyped/cast out, can’t take back actions and comments, not a hero
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“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” The meaning of the mermaids not singing to Prufrock
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“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” Answer: What is he can’t even get the lowest of women (the ones who want to kill him)
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“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” The reason Prufrock compares himself to a crab
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“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” Answer: What is he keeps reaching trying to grasp something, but gets nothing
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“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” The explanation of the ending
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“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” Answer: What is he loses hope or dies
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“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” The tone that is set from the beginning
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“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” Answer: What is it is Prufrock’s own hell
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“The Life You Save May Be Your Own” Name of mother and daughter
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“The Life You Save May Be Your Own” Answer: What is Lucynell
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“The Life You Save May Be Your Own” Two things Shiftlet tells the Lucynell’s about himself
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“The Life You Save May Be Your Own” Answer: What is he was a gospel singer, served in the military, seen every foreign land, had “moral intelligence”, worked for the radio
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“The Life You Save May Be Your Own” Reason Shiftlet is a hypocrite
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“The Life You Save May Be Your Own” Answer: What is he told the boy not to leave his mother, even though he left his mother and made young Lucynell leave her mother and he left young Lucynell (he’s not one to be telling others not to leave people)
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“The Life You Save May Be Your Own” Foreshadowing of clouds
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“The Life You Save May Be Your Own” Answer: What is bad past and bad things to come (future)
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“The Life You Save May Be Your Own” Main point O’Connor is trying to make - the story’s theme
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“The Life You Save May Be Your Own” Answer: What is people are straying from God and becoming too selfish
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