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Questions Over The Sun Also Rises

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Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Ernest Hemingway’s Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises Which did Hemingway prefer - the city or the country?  2. Why did Hemingway prefer the one over the other?  3. What kind of writer was Hemingway at the beginning of his career? 4. Is The Sun Also Rises based on real people - is it a roman a clef?  5. Who was Harold Loeb?  6. What two communities did Harold Loeb’s character bridge?  7. What was Harold Loeb’s reaction to Hemingway’s depiction of him in the book? 8. Who was Lady Brett Ashley based on?  9. Who was the male counterpart to Lady Brett Ashely?  10. Who was Bill Gorton based on? 11. What did Donald Ogden Stewart do to anger Hemingway? 12. How did Hemingway get back at Donald Ogden Stewart? 13. What did Donald Ogden Smith confess to years later which left him shamefaced?  14. Whose story is The Sun Also Rise - Jake’s or Lady Brett Ash...

April 3, 2017 - April 7, 2017 Weekly Agenda

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Monday, April 3rd: Multiple Choice Questions over the poem "S.I.W."  by the W.W. 1 poet Wilfred Owen A little refresher on some terms that appear on the multiple choice questions for "S.I.W." Feminine rhyme: a rhyme that matches two or more syllables occurring at the end of a line, and the second syllable is not stressed. The following words are examples of feminine rhyme: `Dan-cing and `Pran-cing Examples from poetry:    Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: .           England hath need of thee: she is a fen .           Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen, .           Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower,  - examples of feminine rhyme .           Have forfeited their ancient English dower - examples of feminine rhyme ....