ENG 221 Exam 3 Review Questions with Correct Answers Latest Update 2025/2026
"The Women's Swimming Pool" - Answers Women's bodies play a central symbolic role in
certain cultures as is evident in this story's depe\iction of a frustrated young girl.
Akutagawa Ryunosuke - Answers Each of the narrators in this writer's short story seems to offer
a different reason for the audience to refrain from trusting him or her
Junot Diaz, Round, Yunior - Answers This writer's (____) story (____) about his/her diaspora
offers us a narrator (_____) who disguise their true motivations with a "red herring" reason for
their action or inaction
Diaspora - Answers Forced Migration
"This Way for the Gas" - Answers All of the works we've read since the last exam in some since
emphasize both the truth and lie highlighted by perspective. This writer's work emphasizes the
modern interest in subjectivity by presenting the cruelty of the human psyche under deprivation.
World Wars, Urbanization, Industrialization, technological evolution (Marx & Freud) - Answers
The Modernist interest in depicting the body explicitly, as it had never been depicted before, is
partly because of this/these historical event(s)
"The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock" - Answers This work employs synecdoche in its
description of women's bodies. Elsewhere, it employs metonymy.
"This Way for the Gas", Holocaust - Answers Tadeusz Borowski sets his short story (_____)
during this cataclysmic event (____) in part to demonstrate the hopeless and unseemly qualities
of human nature under pressure
"Drown," "Never Let Me Go," "Two Sisters" - Answers Sexuality is also more explicitly depicted in
the literatures of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. These 3 works present frank and/or
explicit depictions of (1) Alternative sex (2) cruelty, and (3) meaningless sex
Narrative Drive - Answers Modernist often toy with this desire to know what happens and get to
the end (TWO words: _____ _____) by, for example, changing the order of a story to at once
create dramatic tension and engage/frustrate the reader.
"In a Bamboo Grove" - Answers Nothing demonstrates the (post)modern interest in the tragedy
of miscommunication like this story's misinterpreted look/glare/glance between husband and
wife
Stream of consciousness ("Never Let Me Go" & "Two Sisters") - Answers This modernist
technique allows us to "see inside" of characters to learn their unmediated thoughts, in all their
chaos and digression. Name TWO works we've read in the last in the last five weeks that employ
this technique.
"The Women's Swimming Pool" - Answers Women's bodies play a central symbolic role in
certain cultures as is evident in this story's depe\iction of a frustrated young girl.
Akutagawa Ryunosuke - Answers Each of the narrators in this writer's short story seems to offer
a different reason for the audience to refrain from trusting him or her
Junot Diaz, Round, Yunior - Answers This writer's (____) story (____) about his/her diaspora
offers us a narrator (_____) who disguise their true motivations with a "red herring" reason for
their action or inaction
Diaspora - Answers Forced Migration
"This Way for the Gas" - Answers All of the works we've read since the last exam in some since
emphasize both the truth and lie highlighted by perspective. This writer's work emphasizes the
modern interest in subjectivity by presenting the cruelty of the human psyche under deprivation.
World Wars, Urbanization, Industrialization, technological evolution (Marx & Freud) - Answers
The Modernist interest in depicting the body explicitly, as it had never been depicted before, is
partly because of this/these historical event(s)
"The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock" - Answers This work employs synecdoche in its
description of women's bodies. Elsewhere, it employs metonymy.
"This Way for the Gas", Holocaust - Answers Tadeusz Borowski sets his short story (_____)
during this cataclysmic event (____) in part to demonstrate the hopeless and unseemly qualities
of human nature under pressure
"Drown," "Never Let Me Go," "Two Sisters" - Answers Sexuality is also more explicitly depicted in
the literatures of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. These 3 works present frank and/or
explicit depictions of (1) Alternative sex (2) cruelty, and (3) meaningless sex
Narrative Drive - Answers Modernist often toy with this desire to know what happens and get to
the end (TWO words: _____ _____) by, for example, changing the order of a story to at once
create dramatic tension and engage/frustrate the reader.
"In a Bamboo Grove" - Answers Nothing demonstrates the (post)modern interest in the tragedy
of miscommunication like this story's misinterpreted look/glare/glance between husband and
wife
Stream of consciousness ("Never Let Me Go" & "Two Sisters") - Answers This modernist
technique allows us to "see inside" of characters to learn their unmediated thoughts, in all their
chaos and digression. Name TWO works we've read in the last in the last five weeks that employ
this technique.
