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How does the novel begin?

• With Nick Carraway talking about West Egg
• With a description of Jordan Baker
• With a description of Tom Buchanan
• With a piece of advice from his dad

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How does the novel begin?

• With Nick Carraway talking about West Egg
• With a description of Jordan Baker
• With a description of Tom Buchanan
• With a piece of advice from his dad

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When in the story is the greatest point of interest or suspense?

• Rising Action
• Climax
• Falling Action
• Conflict

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Which statement best describes the end of the Pardoner's Tale? 

• The rioters become rich
• The rioters meet death
• Death takes the gold florins
• Death takes a holiday

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In stanza 15, Poe uses several exclamation points: `Prophet!' said I, `thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! -
Why would Poe choose to structure his sentences this way?

• It means the narrator is getting upset
• It shows the pacing and the narrative tension are rising
• It gives a variety of punctuation so the reader doesn't get bored
• It shows the bird could be a devil

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In the story, which event occurs last?

• Farquhar imagines reuniting with his wife.
• Farquhar is approached by a Federal scout.
• Farquhar's board is released and he falls.
• Farquhar dies of hanging.

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the organization or arrangement of the parts of a poem

• structure
• verse
• hyperbole

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Gatsby--the character the book is named for--is not "shown" to us until the last page of chapter one.  Why does Fitzgerald wait this long?

• The book is not really about Gatsby.
• To create a surprise when we realize that he is a vampire. 
• To show us that Nick is a stalker. 
• To create suspense. 

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has 19 lines and 2 repeated refrains

• villanelle

• sonnet

• Spenserian stanza

• rime royal

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“April is the cruelest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirring

Dull roots with spring rain."

• caesura

• enjambment

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