Creative Writing - 2nd 6 - Part 1

Which of the following is the dominant literary strategy Kingsolver uses to deliver her message?

• Voice

• Allegory

• Symbolism

• Setting

The Poisonwood tree, in particular, serves to represent—.

• Orleanna's lack of agency

• Nathan's ignorance

• Leah's pridefulness

• Rachel's uselessness

The death of Ruth May forces the entire Price family to deal with—.

• fear and anger

• guilt and loss

• guilt and anger

• fear and loss

Kingsolver's purpose in writing this novel is to convey that—.

• it our duty to resolve political unrest.

• good intentions don't always have positive outcomes.

• faith-based missions are not worth the effort.

• guilt is a healthy motivator.

"The Beef Epitaph" employs humor in order to—.

• convince the audience that the author is credible.

• make the audience face an uncomfortable truth in a comfortable way.

• keep the audience entertained during a boring piece.

• persuade the audience to take action against the meat industry.

"The Beef Epitaph" is mostly experimental in—.

• argument

• purpose

• form

• syntax.

The author's veiled argument in "The Beef Epitaph" is that—.

• no one should eat meat

• there are problems in the meat supplier-consumer relationship

• consumers should stick to organic products

• cattle-ranchers should insist on parent-tags

"Cinema Verite" is most experimental in its—.

• characters and form

• humor and characters

• subject matter and humor

• form and subject matter

Tom Andrew's purpose in composing "Cinema Verite" is to—.

• determine the role of poetry in film

• suggest that Tennyson was not a successful poet

• parody the life of Tennyson

• propose that film was the death of poetry

"I am Bigfoot" is an experimental form of fiction because—.

• the speaker is addressing the audience

• there is not dialogue

• it does not have a clear plot

• Bigfoot is not real