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Read the excerpt from "The Yellow Wallpaper."I think sometimes that if I were only well enough to write a little it would relieve the press of ideas and rest me.But I find I get pretty tired when I try.It is so discouraging not to have any advice and companionship about my work. When I get really well, John says we will ask Cousin Henry and Julia down for a long visit; but he says he would as soon put fireworks in my pillow-case as to let me have those stimulating people about now.I wish I could get well faster.But I must not think about that. This paper looks to me as if it KNEW what a vicious influence it had!Which part of this excerpt best demonstrates the narrator’s social alienation?

“I think sometimes that if I were only well enough to write a little it would relieve the press of ideas and rest me.”

“It is so discouraging not to have any advice and companionship about my work.”

“When I get really well, John says we will ask Cousin Henry and Julia down for a long visit.”

“This paper looks to me as if it KNEW what a vicious influence it had!”

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Read the excerpt from "Harrison Bergeron."The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General. Vonnegut uses satire in this excerpt by

describing a society that has taken the idea of equality too far.

depicting a dystopian setting where people live and think freely.

portraying an ideal society where everyone is equal in every way.

suggesting that the government take a more active role in society.

What does the narrator’s description of the wallpaper in "The Yellow Wallpaper" reveal about her worldview?

She feels a great deal of pressure to behave a certain way, as if everyone is always watching her.

She does not like interacting with people because they aren’t able to understand the wallpaper.

She feels overpowered by everyone in her life, which is why she is refusing to see her family.

She feels that her needs are well taken care of by her husband and other members of her family.

Which incident taken from O’Connor’s “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” is the best example of irony?

Lucynell Crater falls asleep in the diner before she has a chance to eat her food, and she is left there by her husband.

Mrs. Crater gives her car to Mr. Shiftlet in hopes that he will marry her one and only daughter.

Mrs. Crater thinks she is gaining a son-in-law, when in fact Mr. Shiftlet takes her car, her money, and abandons her daughter at a diner.

Mr. Shiftlet appears at the plantation house and explains that even the best doctors cannot know what is in his heart.

Read the excerpt from "The Yellow Wallpaper."He said that after the wall-paper was changed it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on.“You know the place is doing you good,” he said, “and really, dear, I don’t care to renovate the house just for a three months’ rental.”Based on this excerpt, which statement best describes John’s viewpoint of the wallpaper?

He believes that the wallpaper should be replaced.

He believes that the wallpaper is unattractive.

He believes that his wife is overreacting to the wallpaper.

He believes that his wife likes the wallpaper.

Read the excerpt from "Harrison Bergeron." “I think I’d make a good Handicapper General.”“Good as anybody else,” said George.“Who knows better’n I do what normal is?” said Hazel.“Right,” said George. He began to think glimmeringly about his abnormal son who was now in jail, about Harrison, but a twenty-one-gun salute in his head stopped that.How does the dialogue between George and Hazel develop Kurt Vonnegut’s message that advanced technology dehumanizes individuals?

Hazel and George do not discuss their feelings about the arrest of their son.

George thinks about their son who was recently taken to jail.

George agrees that Hazel would be a good Handicapper General.

Hazel believes that the Handicapper General is average.

Which excerpt from "Harrison Bergeron" best illustrates irony?

Hazel had a perfectly average intelligence, which meant she couldn’t think about anything except in short bursts.

There were tears on Hazel’s cheeks, but she’d forgotten for the moment what they were about.

And she had to apologize at once for her voice, which was a very unfair voice for a woman to use. Her voice was a warm, luminous, timeless melody.

A buzzer sounded in George’s head. His thoughts fled in panic, like bandits from a burglar alarm.

Which is the best definition of the term “magic realism”?

a narrative genre of literature that takes ordinary events and makes them seem extraordinary to the reader

a narrative genre closely linked to nineteenth-century writers throughout the Americas and Europe

a narrative genre that can be traced to the history of European colonialism throughout the world

a narrative genre characterized by its use of fantastic or mythic elements in otherwise realistic fiction

Read the excerpt from Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban.The sunset flares behind a row of brownstones, linking them as if by a flaming ribbon. Lourdes massages her eyes and begins walking with legs that feel held by splints.“I’m glad to see you, Lourdes. Thank you for everything, hija, the hat, the cigars. You buried me like an Egyptian king, with all my valuables!” Jorge del Pino laughs.Lourdes perceives the faint scent of her father’s cigar . . .“Where are you, Papi?”The street is vacant, as if a force has absorbed all living things. Even the trees seem more shadow than substance.“Nearby,” her father says, serious now.The author uses magic realism by

revealing Jorge’s appreciation for his valued burial gifts.

describing the support for Lourdes’s unstable legs as she walks.

using words such as “flares,” “faint,” “vacant,” and “shadow.”

comparing the description of the setting sun with a flaming ribbon.

Read the two excerpts about Pilar from Dreaming in Cuban.Excerpt 1: They called me brujita, little witch. I stared at them, tried to make them go away.Excerpt 2: Another woman, an elderly mulatta, claimed that her hair was falling out from the menacing stares the baby gave her. Which statement is the best synthesis for the two excerpts?

Most Cuban women rely on the services of nannies when raising their children.

Supernatural experiences are frequently dismissed as being coincidental in Cuban culture.

Inexplicable events are sometimes interpreted as supernatural experiences in Cuban culture.

Many Cuban children remember the earliest events of their childhood.

Read the excerpt from Flannery O’Connor’s “The Life You Save May Be Your Own.”He held the pose for almost fifty seconds and then he picked up his box and came on to the porch and dropped down on the bottom step. “Lady,” he said in a firm nasal voice, “I’d give a fortune to live where I could see me a sun do that every evening.”Keeping in mind the ending of the story, which best describes the irony of Mr. Shiftlet’s statement?

Mr. Shiftlet does not need a fortune, as he places no value on financial wealth or the security of having a permanent home.

Instead of staying at the plantation, where he can see sunsets like these for the rest of his life, he runs away with Mrs. Crater’s car and money.

According to Mrs. Crater, the sun sets like this every evening, and if he stays at the plantation, Mr. Shiftlet will see this regularly.

No amount of money can ensure that an individual will witness a sunset to equal this one and will see it every single day.

Read the excerpt from Flannery O’Connor’s “The Life You Save May Be Your Own.”“A body and a spirit,” he repeated. “The body, lady, is like a house: it don’t go anywhere; but the spirit, lady, is like a automobile: always on the move, always . . .”This excerpt contains

one simile.

two metaphors.

two similes.

one case of irony.

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