Prompt A. With the beginning of the new twentieth century and the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, a new era of literature had begun.
Write an essay in which you discuss the characteristics of modernism and postmodernism in literature. Use at least three different selections from this unit to serve as examples of the characteristics.

Prompt B. Early in the twentieth century, British citizens were thrust into a tragic world war. This war, however, served as an inspiration for great British poetry.
Write an essay in which you discuss the attitudes of different British poets to the perils of war.

Explain how dave’s search for adulthood in ,the man who was almost a man” reflects the africa-american desire to escape the poverty of the south at the time the story was written.

Plz im failing ela prompt: in a well-developed paragraph using the r.a.c.e. method, explain the allusion found in the advertisement. be sure to include an explanation of the character and how the allusion is used to sell the product. advertisement: excerpt from the christmas carol: use this information to deepen your understanding of the character. oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. the cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shriveled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. a frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. he carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn’t thaw it one degree at christmas. race: use this organizational method to guide your writing- r – restate the prompt a – answer the prompt/questions c – cite evidence e – explain the evidence write your response here:

What questions should readers ask about the exposition of a story?