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Henry James was a author known for writing of the clash between

realist; American and European values

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

What event in his life did Frederick Douglass find to be remarkable

Being selected to go to Baltimore

How did president lincolns rhetoric about the war differ from Walt whitmans

Lincoln spoke generally about the human cost of war

What device is Twain using when he says the boy who became an apprentice engineer was exalted to this eminence

Hyperbole

Which of these was a result of the Emancipation Proclamation

The freedom of slaves in rebel states

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 was an option for Native Americans as outlined in the Indian Removal Act

Become state citizens

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.

Which one of these excerpts from mark twains life on the Mississippi best shows that the story is told by a subjective narrator

Before these events the day was glorious with expectancy after them the day was a dead and empty thing

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 (:

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 concrete detail is most relevant to Frederick Douglass's autobiography

My feet have been so cracked with the frost, that the pen with which i am writing might be laid in the gashes

how did Walt Whitman rhetoric about the war differ from president lincolns

Lincoln spoke generally about the human cost of war

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Open here you flung the shutter when with many a flirt and flutter

A figure of speech particular to Brooklyn New York would be an example of

What would most likely be found in an American realist play

What makes literary nonfiction different from other nonfiction

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