Reading for meaning: Ten Minutes' Musing by Alice Dunbar Nelson

English

In the title, Ten Minutes' Musing, what does the word "musing" mean?

What kind of narrator is used in the story?

What is the occupation of the narrator in the story?

Alice Dunbar Nelson was a writer and part of a cultural and artistic movement called...

Which of the following themes do you think the short story, Ten Minutes' Musing explores?

What was the name of the literary movement which Virginia Woolf belonged to?

Which is the correct definition of the word "subvert"?

The ghosts do not seem threatening because they are focused on their love.

How does Virginia Woolf subvert some of the expectations of a ghost story?

True or false? A short story is a novel that is incomplete.

True or false? Short stories are always simple.

True or false? Short stories have a fully developed theme but are shorter and less elaborate than a novel.

True or false? The uncanny is an uncomfortable psychological experience where a familiar thing is encountered in an unsettling or eerie context.

True or false? Virginia Woolf wanted her short story to be a comedy.