What can you do to keep your reflective essay focused and headed in the right direction? (Select all correct answers.) Provide just enough background, or context, to help your reader understand the story.

Offer reflections on several incidents in your life that taught you important lessons.

Select descriptive details that further your story line and help your readers visualize it.

Carefully describe in great detail everyone who makes up your story.

Look up the information for as many of these sources aspossible and write the works cited entry for each one. (you may make up dates and editions where necessary for the purposes of this exercise.)1. mark twain’s  the mysterious stranger2. a dictionary entry for the word  castigation  from  merriam-webster  (any edition)3. an article in  cosmopolitan  magazine by jennifer grant called “all you need to know”4. an encyclopedia entry for the name “geraldine ferraro” from  world book encyclopedia5. a website article titled “welcome to oz” with no listed author or publisher and no corporate affiliation

What did mark twain contribute to the history of the novel? select all that apply.

Of the three selections you read in this lesson, discuss the one story or poem that you think most closely represents the transcendentalist way of thinking. include textual evidence from both short story or poem and emerson or thoreau's essay that you use as an example. you should have no less than eight to ten sentences.