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

realist; American and European values

What is best defined as a literary work that is mostly not a product of the writer's imagination

Nonfiction is best defined as a literary work that is mostly not a product of the writer's imagination.

What makes literary nonfiction different from other nonfiction

Literary nonfiction uses story-telling techniques from fiction writing.

Which of these is a characteristic of Realism

Ordinary, relatable narrators or Genuine stories and settings

What was the wharf like before the steamboat arrived each day

Full of anticipation

Which of these are most characteristic of literary nonfiction

Real people and places or True events and dialogue

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.

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.

In the reading does Mark Twain describe in great detail

1. The steamboat

2. The boy who became a steamboat man

-APEX

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

the pilot

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