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Flashcards: Contexts of American Plays
Act One, Scene One
A section of country highway. The road runs diagonally from the left, forward, to the right, rear, and can be seen in the distance winding toward the horizon like a pale ribbon between the low, rolling hills with their freshly plowed fields clearly divided from each other, checkerboard fashion, by the lines of stone walls and rough snake fences.
… At the rise of the curtain, ROBERT MAYO is discovered sitting on the fence. He is a tall, slender young man of twenty-three. There is a touch of the poet about him expressed in his high forehead and wide, dark eyes. His features are delicate and refined, leaning to weakness in the mouth and chin. He is dressed in gray corduroy trousers pushed into high-laced boots, and a blue flannel shirt with a bright colored tie. He is reading a book by the fading sunset light. He shuts this, keeping a finger in to mark the place, and turns his head toward the horizon, gazing out over the fields and hills. His lips move as if he were reciting something to himself.
His brother ANDREW comes along the road from the right, returning from his work in the fields. He is twenty-seven years old, an opposite type to ROBERT: husky, sun-bronzed, hand some in a large-featured, manly fashion a son of the soil, intelligent in a shrewd way, but with nothing of the intellectual about him. He wears overalls, leather boots, a gray flannel shirt open at the neck, and a soft, mud-stained hat pushed back on his head. He stops to talk to ROBERT, leaning on the hoe he carries.
During what decade did this play premiere and win a Pulitzer Prize for Drama?
1910s
1890s
1920s
1930s
1900s
All GRE Subject Test: Literature in English Resources
Are you pursuing a graduate degree or other studies at a comparable level? Then you might be preparing yourself to take the GRE Subject Test in Literature. If so, remember that literature is expansive and covers not only various genres, but time periods as well. How familiar are you with American poetry before 1925? How about British poetry during the same time period? Likewise, are you familiar with contemporary approaches to literary criticism? Ensuring that you have the right information in your head is the easiest way to do well on the GRE Subject Test in Literature, and free online flashcards, such as those available from Varsity Tutors’ Learning Tools can help you prepare effectively for the day of the test.
Remember that the GRE Subject Test in Literature is aimed at individuals pursuing advanced degrees. This means that the content on the exam is going past the fundamentals, and will challenge your knowledge of specific works and authors from a range of British and American poetry and prose. Like with all things literature, there really is no better way than to dig in and read, read, read. Of course, this might be tricky if you don’t know where to start. This is where flashcards can be a lifesaver! Simply run through a series of GRE Subject Test in Literature flashcards, and you’ll quickly identify the areas where you still need reinforcement. This can help you look at the bigger picture and figure out where to go as you work through the content in the Learning Tools.
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