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which of the following is not a key feature of the short story?
a.) portraying fiction
b.) incorporating a limited number of characters
c.) having fewer than 1,500 words (my answer)
d.) emphasizing mood
e.) creating unity of effect
in "desiree's baby," kate chopin writes that desiree perceives "an air of mystery among the blacks." this is a detail of the plot feature of
a.) exposition
b.) rising action (my answer)
c.) climax
d.) falling action
e.) denouement
which of the following quotes from "desiree's baby" is an example of indirect characterization?
a.) "for the girl grew to be beautiful and gentle, affectionate and sincere, - the idol of valmonde."
b.)"monsieur valmonde grew practical and wanted things well considered: that is, the girl's obscure origin."
c.) "marriage, and later the birth of his son had softened armand aubigny's imperious and exacting nature greatly."
d.)"desiree was miserable enough to die."
e.)"as white as la blanche'" (my answer"

Read the excerpt from elie wiesel’s all rivers run to the sea. why were those trains allowed to roll unhindered into poland? why were the tracks leading to birkenau never bombed? i have put these questions to american presidents and generals and to high-ranking soviet officers. since moscow and washington knew what the killers were doing in the death camps, why was nothing done at least to slow down their “production”? that not a single allied military aircraft ever tried to destroy the rail lines converging on auschwitz remains an outrageous enigma to me. birkenau was “processing” ten thousand jews a day. stopping a single convoy for a single night—or even for just a few hours—would have prolonged so many lives. based on the paragraph, the author would most likely agree that it is best to avoid confrontation at all costs. people need to be proactive when they witness an injustice. countries should remain neutral to keep alliances strong. moscow and washington are to be blamed for the holocaust.

Study the editorial cartoon mars probe by mike keefe. how does the alien with the baseball bat contribute to the effectiveness of the political cartoon? it suggests that aliens are like people because they play baseball, a human sport. it uses humor to show that unknown factors keep damaging the probes humans send. it shows how to cope with the surface of mars, which is rocky and full of craters. it exaggerates the size of the bat in relation to the mars probe in the cartoon.

Realism was a fairly influential and widespread literary movement in the united states in the latter half of the nineteenth century. which american writer is among the pioneers of american realism? a. ernest hemingway b. f. scott fitzgerald c. j. d. salinger d. mark twain