“The Open Boat” is based on which of the following?

Some noteworthy realist authors chose to focus their literary relism on the interior psychological states of their fictional characters.

Industrialization was a central part of The Gilded Age.

This author was a cynic who was called “the wickedest man in San Francisco” because of the harsh critiques he wrote as a journalist. Many think he was killed in Mexico during the war.

Match the quotes to their authors.

Which of the following is a theme of “The Yellow Wall-paper”?

What is Hurston describing when she writes, “I follow those heathen—follow them exultingly. I dance wildly inside myself; I yell within, I whoop; I shake my assegai above my head. I hurl it true to the mark yeeeeooww! I am in the jungle and living in the jungle way. My face is painted red and yellow and my body is painted blue. My pulse is throbbing like a war drum. I want to slaughter something—give pain, give death to what, I do not know” (NAAL92 p.958).

This author’s Native American heritage and experience with hydrocephalus influenced their writings. The reader can see this influence in the prose poem “Pawn Shop.”

From which poem is the following quote taken? “why on the back has someone made a list / of our names, the date, the event: nothing / of what’s inside—mother, stepfather’s fist?”

Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell were American poets who were friends for thirty years and were possibly romantically involved.