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• What is the attitude that O.Henry/Jack London/Maupassant (choose two) take toward money? Is it a force for good? Is there a morality to wealth in these stories?
• Compare the writing styles between one Romantic story and one Realist story. How is the writing different? Make sure you look at language, grammar, syntax and/or rhetorical devices.
• How are Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne Romantic authors? To what extent are their stories “Romantic”?
• How do two or three Romantic authors or poets demonstrate their departure from the Enlightenment ideals of Reason? (Or how do they retain some ideals of Reason?)
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