What does Sexton’s final stanza suggest about the way fairy tales usuallyend?

What will be an ideal response?



  • In the last stanza, Sexton resumes the original structure of the poem with a bitterly ironic version of “happily ever after.” To use an overworked term, Sexton “deconstructs” the happy ending of a fairy tale; marriage, in her view, is no solution to Cinderella’s problems but the beginning of new ones.

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"On her sixth birthday, Allison rode a pony wearing a dress like a fairy-tale princess."

a. contains a misplaced modifier. b. contains a dangling modifier. c. is correct.

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How should you formulate questions when you preview a text?

a. Turn the titles and headings into questions. b. Ask other people what they want to know. c. Find topics you know nothing about. d. Look for difficult words to define.

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Which of the following sentences correctly uses a participial phrase to combine these two simple sentences? “I worked really hard this semester. I finally made the Dean’s List.”

a. Working really hard this semester, finally making the Dean’s List. b. I worked really hard this semester; I finally made the Dean’s List. c. Finally making the Dean’s List this semester, I worked really hard. d. I worked really hard this semester, finally making the Dean’s List.

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To whom does Mrs. Turpin say, "Hi yawl this evening."

What will be an ideal response?

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