Lit

Question 1

“There is No Unmarked Woman”
1. SPACECAT?
2. How are women marked in today’s society?
3. What is Tannen’s overall point?

Answer 1

1. Speaker, Purpose, Audience, Context, exigence, choices, appeals, tone
2. People judge women for everything like their clothes, makeup, hair, or weight.
3. Women are marked while men aren’t.

Question 2

“The Narrative of the Life of FD”
1. what condition is FD in?
2. What is his first act of free will?
3. Why is he the best abolitionist speaker?

Answer 2

1. Weak because he was starved, dehydrated, and beat.
2. Going back to Covey’s house after escaping.
3. Former slave.

Question 3

“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
1. How much time passes?
2. What type of irony is the spy incident?
3. What detail indicated the beginning of the hallucination?
4. Why is the shifting POV important?

Answer 3

1. Minutes
2. Situational
3. The ticking of his watch, hearing it
4. Gives context to the reader

Question 4

“The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.”
1. Plot
2. Most thoughtless bet?
3. Twain’s style?
4. Contrasts

Answer 4

1. Jim Smiley bets on everything, horse (fast then dies), dog (can beat everything until dog w/out legs), frog (Jumps relly high and then loses because of pellets).
2. Betting Parson Wilken’s wife will die.
   3.Deadpan+Local color
3. A lot of shortened words and local color compared to the grammar of the original author.