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ENGLISH MIDTERM (SHORT STORIES)
all of the things that were on that HUGE test...
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English
12th Grade
01/17/2011

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he wrote A&P
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John updike
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cat in the rain
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hemmingway
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the chrysanthemums
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john steinbeck
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the secret life of walter mitty
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james thurber
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araby
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james joyce
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works were set in salinas valley
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steinbeck
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Many works set in euro countries where he visited during and after WWI
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Hemmingway
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known as a humorist
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thurber
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rebellious attitude was first formed in his childhood
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Joyce
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style consisted of short sentences, simple words and what he believed to be hoensty
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hemmingway
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master of the modern short story
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updike
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some considered him to be a communist
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steinbeck
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he illustrated his stories with comic line drawings
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thurber
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greatest celebrity write with adventures at war, in the jungle and at sea
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hemmingay
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frequently censored and infrequently published
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Joyce
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much of his work details what it means to be a man in a world of women and war
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hemmingway
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"experimental writing style and controversial subject matter"
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joyce
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does nobody understand?
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joyce
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main character henpecked by wife
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thurber
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Ulysses
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james joyce
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he lived most of his adult life in exile from his homeland
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joyce
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served as editor of the harvard lampoon
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Updike
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sex, art and religion as the three fundamental secrets of human experience
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updike
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father of the lost generation
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hemmingway
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"gazing up into the darness...i saw myself as a creature driven and deried by vanity, and my eyes burned with anguish and anger"
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joyce- araby
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Wrote Old man and the sea and the sun also rises
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hemmingway
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nice? you think i look nice? what do you mean by 'nice'?
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Steinbeck- chrysanthemums
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my stomach kind of fell as i felt how hard the world was going to be to me hereafter
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UPDIKE- A&P
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"she turned up her collar so he could not see that she was crying weakly, like an old woman"
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steinbeck
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"puppy biscut"
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Thurber- walter mitty
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In his story, a boy lives with his aunt and uncle on a street near the christan brothers school
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Araby
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THESE TWO WERE KNOWN FOR BITTERNESS BUT ONLY ONE WAS A HUMORIST
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Joyce, THurber(humorist)
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Two suffered from bad eyesight
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Joyce, Thurber
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were originally cartoonists
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updike and thurber
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these two were involved in a series of romances with a variety of women
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hemmingway, steinbeck
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as short story, in some ways, is like a .....
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PHOTOGRAPH
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every sentence must do two things...except
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build suspense
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the major difference between the events of a short story and a novel is
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the characters in a novel are more fully developed
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Roman à clef
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fictional story almost entirely based on the author’s life (name is just changed)
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- Anecdote
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small story of a person’s life that gets fictionalized
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tone
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attitude put forth through word choice
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indirect characterization
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protagonist is developed indirectly in the text
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direct characterization
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protagonist is developed through the their words and actions
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round character
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well-developed character
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flat character
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poorly developed character
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Stock character
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type of character (nagging wife in Walter Mitty)
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