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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.

What does Henry David Thoreau criticize in Resistance to Civil Government

slavery

Why did Frederick Douglass spend three days washing in the creek before he left for Baltimore

Because Mrs. Lucretia told him he had to clean himself up

Which of these is a characteristic of Realism

Ordinary, relatable narrators or Genuine stories and settings

What is one way in which writers of realism bring truth into their stories

With settings in reowned cities

Which is the most likely setting for a Gothic novel

A deserted castle on a dark, dreary night

What was the wharf like after the steamboat left each day

Quiet and empty

What device is Twain using when he says he was left in obscurity and misery when the boy went away to become an apprentice engineer

Hyperbole

Which of these are most characteristic of literary nonfiction

Real people and places or True events and dialogue

What is one way in which Mark Twain urges social change in his fictional writing

By making fun of certain situations

Which of these phrases is an example of hyperbole

For apex it’s the mall we walked today was a million miles long.

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 is a hardship Margaret Frink says they endured on their journey

extreme cold was what I got.

According to the reading why was the position of steamboat pilot the best

Because it paid well

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!

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

the pilot

What are the apprentice engineer's words St. Looy an example of

Dialect

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