English 2 final exam latest 2023 already graded A

English 2 final exam latest 2023 already graded A what is the primary source of conflict between Jing mei and her mother? ✔✔Jing-Mei's mother doesnt accept or appreciate her why didnt Jing- Mei apply herself to the p ...

English 2 final exam latest 2023 already graded A what is the primary source of conflict between Jing mei and her mother? ✔✔Jing-Mei's mother doesnt accept or appreciate her why didnt Jing- Mei apply herself to the piano lessons ✔✔she resents the pressure from her mother when did the mother give up her goals for Jing-mei ✔✔after Jing-Mei compared herself to the dead twins how did the adult Jing-mei react when her mother offered to give her the piano ✔✔she doesnt accept but she is pleased her mom offered what did the mothers plans for jing-mei indicate ✔✔she loves her daughter and wants her to succeed what can you infer about jing-mei from her refusal to cooperate with her mother ✔✔she is stubborn and determined what were the mothers ambitions for jing mei motivated by initially ✔✔the mother's beliefs about opportunity in america what motivates Jing-mei to keep silent about her performance at the piano recital, never discussing it with her mother ✔✔she thinks her mother will become angry if she mentions it failure to fulfil anthers hopes ✔✔betrayal wasted time; lingered ✔✔dawdled clashing, not in harmony ✔✔discordant complete failure ✔✔fiasco said with regret or sorrow ✔✔lamented without energy or interest ✔✔listlessly spellbinding; hypnotic; fascinating ✔✔mesmerizing without interest or concern; indifferently ✔✔nonchalantly child of highly unusual talent or genius ✔✔prodigy heartbroken; affected by or suffering from something painful or distressing ✔✔stricken what does effective characterization do ✔✔create believable characters why are indirect methods of characterization usually more appealing that direct methods ✔✔readers want to draw their own conclusions about characters which characters can be describes as complex and three-dimensional ✔✔round characters which characters only have one or two key personality traits ✔✔flat characters how can a reader recognize a stock character ✔✔they fit our expectations give an example of a stock character ✔✔wacky neighbor when is a characters motivation considered successful ✔✔when the audience understands why a characters does something where did marin meet geraldo ✔✔a dance how did geraldo die ✔✔hit and run what is the connection between geraldo and marin ✔✔geraldo was sending money back home to his family how did the narrator imagine geraldos family ✔✔wondering what happened to him what did marin do after the accident ✔✔stayed at the hospital what is distinctive about the style of "geraldo no last name" ✔✔short simple sentences what is the tone of cisneros story ✔✔emotional why did feld promote the marriage between miriam and max ✔✔miriam seems restless and lacking direction in life why did sobel quit his job at felds shop ✔✔he was furious about felds match making attempts what happened in the shop after sobel quit ✔✔feld is unable to find an assistant as reliable and trustworthy as sobel how did sobel believe miriam recognized his love for her ✔✔mutual love of literature what did sobel show by returning to work at the shop ✔✔marriage to miriam is worth a lot to him what is a major difference in cultures between felds culture and modern america ✔✔his attempt to select a husband for his daughter who was the antagonist of the story ✔✔sobel, goes against protagonist who was the protagonist of the story ✔✔feld, initiates actions, main character, has some weaknesses skillful in a quick and sure way ✔✔deft roundabout; indirect ✔✔devious recognized, perceived ✔✔discerned ignorant; uneducated, not knowing how to read or write ✔✔illiterate pale ✔✔pallid plentiful ✔✔profuse distasteful, offensive ✔✔repugnant daydreaming ✔✔reverie blessed ✔✔sanctified not restrained by ideas of right and wrong ✔✔unscrupulous why did the father take his children along with him to the dumb ✔✔help him find food what was the weekly journey to the dump like for the father ✔✔physically difficult how would you describe the father at the beginning of the story ✔✔dictatorial, anxious to start the journey what did the father do during the storm ✔✔displayed a capacity of calming and caring for his sons when did the narrators perception of the father change ✔✔when he saw the bruises why did the father tell his kids to come out of the shed during the storm ✔✔he fears the storm will soon blow it down what is the authors purpose for telling the story ✔✔commemorate his father, it was a big day for their family what is the difference between a dynamic and a static character ✔✔dynamic characters change in significant ways status doesnt usually change how would you describe the narrators change in understanding ✔✔his admiration and awe of his father increases let up, lessened; decreased ✔✔abated covered over; darkened ✔✔eclipsed stimulated ✔✔galvanized glare; stare angrily ✔✔glower bruised, black and blue ✔✔livid countless or of a highly varied nature ✔✔myriad loot ✔✔spoils tightly stretched, tense ✔✔taut uncertain; hesitant ✔✔tentative point directly overhead in the sky; highest point ✔✔zenith describe mr mead ✔✔wears tennis shoes so the dogs wont hear him, his house is the only one thats brightly lit, has walked every night alone for 10 years why does mr mead agree that one might say writing is not a profession ✔✔he no longer earns a living from writing why is there no one in the police car ✔✔its automatically controlled give an example from the story that supports the idea that television is deadening to the people watching ✔✔the shadows from the tv look like ghosts on the wall give three behaviors that the police car would find regressive ✔✔nightwalking, single life, getting fresh air outside what is the authors purpose in writing the story? ✔✔technology deadens feeling and life in people how does the emotion change from the beginning of the story to the end ✔✔eerie and surreal what kind of atmosphere does the setting suggest ✔✔familiar to cold and frightening lessening or weakening ✔✔ebbing moving backward, or turning to an earlier or less advanced condition ✔✔regressive appear, become evident ✔✔manifest appearing or occurring from time to time ✔✔intermittent positive connotation- ✔✔happy form of a word negative connotation- ✔✔bad, negative form of a word neutral connotation ✔✔regular form of the same world some idea or insight about human life and human nature that gives meaning to the story ✔✔theme what does the theme often reveal about the writer ✔✔the writers philosophy of life how can reading works by a variety of authors help a reader ✔✔experience new ways of looking at the world what must a theme be a statement about for the story ✔✔statement about the storys plot how is the theme of a story different from a moral ✔✔a theme can be stated in one sentence give at least one way to determine the theme of a story ✔✔ask how the protagonist has changed how can attempting to state the theme of a story help a reader ✔✔understand the story more what must you do to determine the theme of a story ✔✔understand the storys events what do the narrator and the dog Liberty have in common ✔✔both independent, dont like authority, mischievous what does the narrator do despite the strange men's warning ✔✔tells her parents about them what does the author imply that mami is worried about ✔✔her husband being imprisoned or killed what is the dog liberty a symbol for ✔✔freedom and new beginning what is the narrators motivation when she kicks liberty at the storys end ✔✔get her to run away how would you describe the parents discussions ✔✔anxious when tia mami says farewell, what is the tone of her statements? ✔✔hopeful choose ✔✔elect abnormally active, very lively ✔✔hyperactive tightly closed ✔✔clenched unable to be comforted ✔✔inconsolable scaldings; warnings ✔✔admonitions what is satire ✔✔any writing that uses ridicule with the intention of bringing out social reform what is verbal irony ✔✔when someone says one thing but means another what is dramatic irony ✔✔occurs when we know what is in store for a character but the character does not what is situational irony ✔✔describes an occurrence that is contrary to what we expected what is irony ✔✔acting ignorant in order to make fun of a person or to expose the truth about a situation what is sarcasm ✔✔when the speaker uses words in a particularly harsh and cruel way what are the tricks paul uses to avoid being afraid ✔✔counts, sings, licks the dew off grass when does paul believe he will stop being afraid ✔✔when they get to the sea near the end of the story, paul imagines telling his father about billy. what does he decide not to admit to his father ✔✔he was very scared how would paul like to appear to his parents ✔✔unafraid what most disturbed paul about billys death ✔✔it cause paul to discover his own fear if the story had been set in WW1 instead of vietnam, what element would have been missing ✔✔mention of aluminum cans what is the storys theme ✔✔fear itself can be a dangerous enemy describe pauls character ✔✔young, impressionable, afraid fertile; producing abundantly ✔✔fecund passed around rather than through ✔✔skirted how does the lawyer appear to the banker when the banker entered the lodge in the middle of the night ✔✔aged beyond his years how did the lawyer cope with his isolation ✔✔payed music, learned 6 languages what was the bankers initial response to the lawyers letter ✔✔shame why did the lawyer leave his confinement before the full time was up ✔✔wants to show that he rejects the bankers belongings what is the theme of the story ✔✔human interaction is an essential need how did the bakers intentions add to the stores ambiguity ✔✔he never tells anyone about the lawyers letter capable of being heard ✔✔audible splitting ✔✔cleaving give up; reject ✔✔renounce light and delicate; unearthly ✔✔ethereal sudden notion or desire ✔✔caprice not real; based on false ideas ✔✔illusory required; enforced ✔✔compulsory fervently, devotedly ✔✔zealously descendants or all future generations ✔✔posterity without making careful choices; or distinctions, randomly ✔✔indiscriminately