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William Faulkner and John Steinbeck's fiction expressed
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a regional revival
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With his writing, William Faulkner explored universal themes, such as
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the past and present in human lives
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Randall Jarrell wrote poems that expressed what
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he had witnessed
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After World War I, many young American writers took up residence in Paris and
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abandoned tradional values
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Read the excerpt from William Faulkner's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail. According to Faulkner, the poet is not just a witness to the past, but also
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a force of strength
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Read the excerpt from William Faulkner's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech. But I would like to do the same with the acclaim too, by using this moment as a pinnacle from which I might be listened to by the young men and women already dedicated to the same anguish and travail, among whom is already that one who will some day stand here where I am standing. Who is Faulkner addressing in his speech?
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up and coming young writers
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Read the quotation from Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. There is nothing as bad as war. . . . When people realize how bad it is they cannot do anything to stop it because they go crazy. There are some people who never realize. Which common Lost Generation theme is reflected in the passage?
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not D
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Read the excerpt from William Faulkner's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech. . . . the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed—love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice. Which best describes the meaning of the term "universal truths"?
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feelings
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Both Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner explored the lives and existence of
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Not C
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Lost Generation writers, such as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, were influenced by
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the rejection
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Read the excerpt from Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. The major asked me to have a drink with him and two other officers. We drank rum and it was very friendly. Outside it was getting dark. I asked what time the attack was to be and they said as soon as it was dark. The casual behavior of the characters during a difficult time demonstrates Hemingway's belief that a hero should
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exhibit grace
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Read the excerpt from Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. We parked the cars beyond the brickyard. The ovens and some deep holes had been equipped as dressing stations. There were three doctors that I knew. I talked with the major and learned that when it should start and our cars should be loaded we would drive them back along the screened road and up to the main road along the ridge where there would be a post and other cars to clear them. Which best describes Hemingway's style of writing in the excerpt?
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straightfoward
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Read the excerpt from Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. "I believe we should get the war over," I said. "It would not finish it if one side stopped fighting. It would only be worse if we stopped fighting." "It could not be worse," Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war." "Defeat is worse." "I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully. "What is defeat? You go home." "They come after you. They take your home. They take your sisters." "I don't believe it," Passini said. "They can't do that to everybody. Let everybody defend his home. Let them keep their sisters in the house." "They hang you. They come and make you be a soldier again. Not in the auto-ambulance, in the infantry." What does Hemingway's indirect characterization of the narrator reveal?
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the narrator recognizes tha war
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Read the excerpt from Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. "There is nothing worse than war." "Defeat is worse." "I do not believe it," Passini said. . . . "What is defeat? You go home." "They come after you. They take your home. They take your sisters." "I don't believe it," Passini said. "They can't do that to everybody. Let everybody defend his home. Let them keep their sisters in the house." This excerpt exemplifies how Hemingway's dialogues typically includes
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common
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Read the excerpt from Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. The major was a little man with upturned mustaches. He had been in the war in Libya and wore two wound-stripes. He said that if the thing went well he would see that I was decorated. I said I hoped it would go well but that he was too kind. I asked him if there was a big dugout where the drivers could stay and he sent a soldier to show me. I went with him and found the dugout, which was very good. The drivers were pleased with it and I left them there. In the excerpt, what does the diction, or words used to express an idea, show about the narrator?
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it makes the narrator seem disciplied
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Read the excerpt from Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. "Tenente," Passini said. "We understand you let us talk. Listen. There is nothing as bad as war. We in the auto-ambulance cannot even realize at all how bad it is. When people realize how bad it is they cannot do anything to stop it because they go crazy. There are some people who never realize. There are people who are afraid of their officers. It is with them the war is made." In typical Hemingway style, the excerpt
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constains few adjectives
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Read the excerpt from A Farewell to Arms. The major asked me to have a drink with him and two other officers. We drank rum and it was very friendly. Outside it was getting dark. I asked what time the attack was to be and they said as soon as it was dark. I went back to the drivers. They were sitting in the dugout talking and when I came in they stopped. I gave them each a package of cigarettes, Macedonias, loosely packed cigarettes that spilled tobacco and needed to have the ends twisted before you smoked them. Manera lit his lighter and passed it around. The lighter was shaped like a Fiat radiator. I told them what I had heard. In the passage, Hemingway's characterization of the narrator and his peers
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allows
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Read the excerpt from Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. "They come after you. They take your home. They take your sisters." "I don't believe it," Passini said. "They can't do that to everybody. Let everybody defend his home. Let them keep their sisters in the house." "They hang you. They come and make you be a soldier again. Not in the auto-ambulance, in the infantry." The use of simple and vigorous words in A Farewell to Arms reflects
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the harsh
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Read the excerpt from Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. "It could not be worse," Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war." "Defeat is worse." "I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully. "What is defeat? You go home." "They come after you. They take your home. They take your sisters." "I don't believe it," Passini said. "They can't do that to everybody. Let everybody defend his home. Let them keep their sisters in the house." This excerpt exemplifies how Hemingway uses short sentences that
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are still loaded
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Read the excerpt from Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. I talked with the major and learned that when it should start and our cars should be loaded we would drive them back along the screened road and up to the main road along the ridge where there would be a post and other cars to clear them. What effect does the style of this long sentence achieve?
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the uninterrupted
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