What is the American identity? What is your cultural background? How does your culture fit into the American identity? How have historical events contributed to the development of an American identity? How has the American identity evolved over time? What is the “American Dream”? Is the “American Dream” synonymous to the American identity?

If anyone read or heard the play the importance of being earnest unit test, could you answer these question you so much. 20. briefly explain two ways the play is either reflective of the victorian culture or shows the influence of restoration comedy. respond in complete sentences. include specific examples and details from the play in your responses for support! 21. identify and explain how symbolism is used in the play. respond in complete sentences. you may discuss the symbolism of food as it was described in the lessons. include specific examples and details from the play in your responses for support! 22. give an example of how oscar wilde uses irony to achieve social commentary in the play. you can discuss the irony of the title. respond in complete sentences. 23. the importance of being earnest presents characters who live for one thing and one thing only—to do whatever will bring them pleasur

In this excerpt from "dover beach" by matthew arnold, which two lines or sets of lines suggest that the speaker has undergone a loss of faith? the sea of faith was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. but now i only hear its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, retreating, to the breath of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear and naked shingles of the world. ah, love, let us be true to one another! for the world, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams, so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, nor certitude, nor peace, nor for pain; and we are here as on a darkling plain swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, where ignorant armies clash by night.

Select the correct text in the passage. which two lines in this excerpt from shakespeare's romeo and juliet foreshadow the tragic fate of romeo and juliet? friar laurence: so smile the heavens upon this holy act, that after hours with sorrow chide us not! romeo: amen, amen! but come what sorrow can, it cannot countervail the exchange of joy that one short minute gives me in her sight: do thou but close our hands with holy words, then love-devouring death do what he dare; it is enough i may but call her mine. friar laurence: these violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness and in the taste confounds the appetite: therefore love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.