CLEP Humanities : Analyzing the Form of Twentieth-Century Fiction
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Example Question #1 :Analyzing The Form Of Twentieth Century Fiction
The difference between a novella and novel is based primarily on__________.
subject matter
setting
humor
length
tone
length
"Novella" is a diminutive of "novel," and authors will often use the term "novella" to describe a story that falls between a short story and a novel in length. An author will usually choose to do so because he or she believes that a story needs development beyond the length of a short story, but cannot be sustained over the full length of a novel.
Example Question #2 :Analyzing The Form Of Fiction
Aroman à clefis a novel in which__________.
animals stand in for humans
一个字符显示的年龄
actual events are only lightly fictionalized
a protagonist must go on a quest of discovery
a fictional world is created as the setting of the novel
actual events are only lightly fictionalized
Aroman à clef,French for "novel with a key," is a term describing a work of literature that is based on actual events and people who are only lightly fictionalized. A chief concern for a novelist in writing aroman à clefis to tell a real story without having to clear everything. Examples of such novels are Ernest Hemingway'sThe Sun Also Rises, Jack Kerouac'sOn the Road, and Hunter S. Thompson'sFear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Example Question #2 :Analyzing The Form Of Twentieth Century Fiction
What is the modernist novel that is written in a constructed, idiosyncratic language largely created by its author?
The Great Gatsby
Finnegans Wake
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Room of One's Own
Intruder in the Dust
Finnegans Wake
The Irish author James Joyce had experimented with various styles and uses of language throughout his career, in books likeUlyssesandThe Dubliners. Joyce went even a step further with his final book,Finnegans Wake,which was published in 1939 after seventeen years of writing. The book's language is largely constructed by Joyce, and uses odd slang and forms somewhat based around English to tell a story about the Earwicker family. The book is often cited as one of the most difficult books to read.
Example Question #3 :Analyzing The Form Of Twentieth Century Fiction
下面哪个小说发生单纯啊ver one day in the life of a man in Dublin?
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
A Tale of Two Cities
Ulysses
The Brothers Karamazov
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Ulysses
James Joyce was innovative in his writing on a number of levels, and his early workThe Dubliners(1914) was remarkable for showing relatively mundane tales but in innovative, stream of consciousness language. For his next work, Joyce used many of the same techniques to tell the story of one day in the life of Dublin native Leo Bloom, and called itUlysses(1922).Ulysseswas considered a significant break from previous novels, which were generally sweeping epics that traced families, communities, or entire lives.
A Tale of Two Cities(1859) is by Charles Dickens,The Brothers Karamazov(1880) is by Fyodor Dostoyevsky,The Hunchback of Notre Dame(1831) is by Victor Hugo, andTess of the d'Urbervilles(1891) is by Thomas Hardy.
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