ENG 224 MAX HIPP MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026

ENG 224 MAX HIPP MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026 Dialect - Answers the language used by the people of a specific area, class, district, or any other group of people. The term dialect involves the spelling, sounds, grammar and pronunciation used by a particular group of people and it distinguishes them from other people around them. Diction - Answers As a literary device, diction refers to the choice of words and style of expression that an author makes. Diction greatly effects the tone of a literary work. For example, the diction of "You are cordially invited to the holiday soiree" is very different from "Hey come over." Each phrase implies a different sort of party. Image - Answers In literature, an image is any word or phrase an evokes a sense: sight, smell, sound, taste, or touch. Just as a red, red rose is an image, so is the smell of coffee is an image, as well as a car horn blaring. Image is often used to evoke emotion. Regionalism - Answers fiction and poetry that focuses on the characters, dialect, customs, landscape, culture, music, and other features particular to a specific region. Tone - Answers Tone is the attitude of a writer toward a subject of audience. We understand it through word choice (diction). Examples of tone are formal, informal, comic, sarcastic, serious, etc. "...the South is shielding itself behind the plausible screen of defending the honor of its women. This, too, in the face of the fact that only one-third of the 728 victims to mobs have been charged with rape, to say nothing of those of that one-third who were innocent of the charge." - Answers Ida B Wells Barnett, From the "New Cry", shows she doesn't appear to be questioning honor, only the validity of the claim of rape against these murdered people, many of whom never even received a trial. She's questioning the logic of mob violence and the disinformation prevalent at the time that enabled the violence to continue. Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases - Answers -Well's first anti-lynching pamphlet -Accounts of the lynchings within this book grabbed the attention of Northerners who knew little about lynching or accepted the common explanation that black men deserved this fate. Generally, southern states and white juries refused to indict any perpetrators for lynching, although they were frequently known and sometimes shown in the photographs being made more frequently of such events. "The Offense" - Answers Ida B. Wells, The article titled "The Offense" chronicles how her paper, The Free Speech, was destroyed and how she was effectively run out of town. Her press and paper are gone, as she says, as if they never existed simply because she pointed out the peculiarity of lynching laws, the injustice of mob violence and extrajudicial killings. Further, and this is what set off the white mob against her, she questions the validity of the widespread claim that lynched black men were lynched for raping white women. The white mob that destroyed her paper claimed it was because her article questioned the "honor" of white women. Ida B. Wells-Barnett () - Answers -Born to slave parents in Holly Springs, Mississippi; journalist the championed civil rights; fought for equality of women and African Americans; began an anti-lynching campaign - Reconstruction -Jim Crow Era - Fought administration at Rust College, train car company in Memphis, Reconstruction (Ending in 1877) - Answers Violence against former slaves that reinstated white supremacy in the south when the federal army left and could no longer federally enforce equality. This took place through lynching, voter disenfranchisement, and Jim Crow laws) "all through the interminable narrative there ran a vein of impressive earnestness and sincerity, which showed me plainly that, so far from him imagining that there was anything ridiculous or funny about this story, he regarded it as a really important matter, and admired its two heroes" (122). - Answers "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", Twain. It's funny that Wheeler doesn't think this is funny, and that helps characterize him for us. Wheeler's voice is also meant to be somewhat annoying, as he corners the narrator and tells him about a different Smiley than the narrator is looking for. Throughout Simon Wheeler's accounts of the frog race, notice the heavy use of dialect, local color, and ironic humor. This is how Twain and other writers tapped into the distinctly American voice. "It seems to me that it was far from right for the Professor of English Literature at Yale, the Professor of English Literature in Columbia, and Wilkie Collins to deliver opinions on Cooper's literature without having read some of it. It would have been much more decorous to keep silent and let persons talk who have read Cooper." (326) - Answers Twain "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" This is what I've heard some people describe as a "sick burn," and the literary jabs keep coming. What follows is eighteen rules Twain says govern "the domain of romantic fiction." What the list does is lay out what he feels good writing should do in general, and at the very least. Wasn't it remarkable! How could he see that little pellet fly through the air and enter that distant bullet-hole? Yet that is what he did; for nothing is impossible to a Cooper person. Did any of those people have any deep-seated doubts about this thing? No; for that would imply sanity, and these were all Cooper people" (331). - Answers Twain "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" When recounting Pathfinder's miraculous marksmanship, he emphasizes that the observers, and Cooper's characters, don't really behave like living people. They don't call out Pathfinder's superhuman vision or question much at all. Literary Realism - Answers First, it seems to have developed in America simultaneously with the proliferation of literacy in the lower and middle classes and with the availability of printing presses. A Realistic short story or novel generally does the following: It emphasizes character over plot. It attempts to depict reality through accurate words and details. (Twain calls out Cooper for not doing this.) It depicts complex characters. This means it tends to avoid depicting villains and heroes stereotypically. The diction used is like regular speech, or the vernacular, not poetic or florid. There's an attempt by the author toward objectivity, where the author isn't telling the reader how to feel about events or characters. Readers have to interpret the events for themselves. Influenced by French Literature Conflict: Character vs Society (ex. Daisy Miller and Edna Pontellier loses battle to death) What did Twain use in addition to Literary Realism? - Answers In addition, Twain's Literary Realism uses literary techniques, like local color and dialect. He favors an approach to narrative that seeks to capture the way he feels Americans truly speak, think, and act.In "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," we can see Twain put these techniques into action. The story is told by an unnamed first-person narrator, who finds the whole story rather tedious. It's actually a frame-story, or a story within a story. Notice in the fourth paragraph that Mark Twain - Answers On November 30th 1835, Samuel Clemens was born. When he was twelve, his father died, and he went to work as a printer's apprentice. Later he became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River, and he claimed to learn much of what he knew about storytelling and characters from his years in the trade. During the Civil War he worked as a journalist and wrote stories under the pen name, Mark Twain, a riverboat term meaning the water is two fathoms deep, safe for boats to navigate. He remains the most well-known American writer in the world. Uses realism and humor. "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" - Answers Twain's narrator, Simon Wheeler, spins a funny, improbable yarn about the exploits of a betting man named Jim Smiley. "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" - Answers Twain, Criticizes Deerslayer by Cooper with humor Dialogue - Answers a literary technique in which writers employ characters to be engaged in conversation with one another. Generally, it makes a literary work enjoyable and lively and allows us to hear different voices. There are two types of dialogue: inner dialogue is when a character speaks to themselves, revealing their personality, whereas outer dialogue is simply conversation between two or more characters. Narration - Answers Also known as "point of view." Authors choose one or more of the following narration options: first person ("I"), second person (you), or third person. Third person point of view could mean that a character is speaking (for example, Winterbourne), or that an omniscient narrator who is not part of the story but knows everything is telling the tale. Some texts employ multiple narration styles to show multiple points of view throughout a (usually longer) work. Setting - Answers the time and place in which a story takes place. The definition of setting can also include social statuses, weather, historical period, and details about immediate surroundings. Settings can be real or fictional, or a combination of both real and fictional elements. Most pieces of literature include more—or many more—than one setting, either as the narrative progresses through time or to include multiple points of view from more than one character. Henry James - Answers -() - American Realism - One of the ways that James' developments in realism are notable in his narration.