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What makes literary nonfiction different from other nonfiction

Literary nonfiction uses story-telling techniques from fiction writing.

What was the wharf like before the steamboat arrived each day

Full of anticipation

When twain puts words such as labboard in quotation marks what is he showing

dialect , apex

What was the wharf like after the steamboat left each day

Quiet and empty

Which of these excerpts from Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi best shows Twain's subtle sense of humor

At last he turned up as apprentice engineer or "striker" on a steamboat. This thing shook the bottom out of all my Sunday-school teachings.

How did Frederick Douglass feel about leaving the plantation and going to Baltimore

he had high hopes for a bright future (apex)

Which of these phrases is the most objective

My father immigrated to New York from Italy when he was 20.

As the civil war drew to a close why did president Lincoln rhetoric change

Because he now had to repair the nation (apex)

Which situation best shows irony

A school nurse often misses work because she has an unhealthy lifestyle.

According to the reading which job aboard a steamboat was the best

Why was the position of steamboat pilot the best?

Because it paid well. -apex (:

It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience. Which of these rhetorical devices does Thoreau use here

parallelism- APEX

Ask us of the following is most responsible for making Life on the Mississippi a great example of American Realist writing

His use of idioms!

What singular ambition did all the boys have in town where Mark Twain grew up

To be steamboatmen.

In the reading life on the Mississippi which position aboard a steamboat paid the most

the pilot

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