Writing a Comparison of Fiction and Nonfiction

Question 1

Which excerpt from Fever 1793 directly reveals a character's thoughts or feelings?

Question 2

Which sentence from Fever 1793 reveals a first-person point of view?

Question 3

Read this excerpt from Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson.It is long since I wrote to you, because I know you must be where you could not receive my letters: and perhaps it may be some time before I write to you again, on account of a contagious and mortal fever which has arisen here, and is driving us all away. It is called a yellow fever, but is like nothing known or read of by the physicians. . . . All persons who can find asylum elsewhere, are flying from the city: this will doubtless extend it to other towns, and spread it through the country, unless an early winter should stop it.Which excerpt from Fever 1793 connects to the historical account detailed in the excerpt?

Question 4

Which sentence from Fever 1793 reveals a first-person point of view?

Question 5

Read this excerpt from Thomas Jefferson: The Apostle of Americanism by Gilbert Chinard."I think it is Montaigne who has said that ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head," he wrote to Edmund Randolph. "I am sure it is true as to everything political, and shall endeavor to estrange myself to everything of that character." Since that time there have been in American politics many instances of politicians who left for a hunting party, or retired to their farms in order to avoid responsibility.Which character in Fever 1793 is used to compare this perspective?

Question 6

Read this excerpt from Fever 1793.I hadn't heard about that. They were burying fever victims every day?"How many have died, Mr. Carris?" I asked.The first-person narration is meant to help readers understand that

Question 7

Read this excerpt from The Writings of Thomas Paine, Vol. IV.In the fall of the year that New York was evacuated (1783), General Washington had his headquarters at Mrs. Berrian’s, at Rocky Hill, in Jersey, and I was there: the Congress then sat at Prince Town. We had several times been told that the river or creek, that runs near the bottom of Rocky Hill, and over which there is a mill, might be set on fire, for that was the term the country people used; and as General Washington had a mind to try the experiment. What would a story written about this historical time most likely include?

Question 8

The narrator of Fever 1793 helps readers imagine her childhood by

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B: describing the experience of seeing her words in print.

Question 9

The narrator of Fever 1793 helps readers imagine the fear of living through the yellow fever outbreak by describing

Question 10

Which statement best describes how the first-person narration in Fever 1793 engages readers?

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D: Mattie's perspective on the events of 1793 gives readers an understanding of the experiences and uneasiness of the time.

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