I was writing a report last night; ________ I would not have stayed up late.

Young ________ he was, he managed to make a living on his own.

________ you had been here, we wouldn ’ t have had so much trouble then.

Mark Twain’s particular concern about the local character of a region came about as “local colorism, ” a unique va riation of American literary( ).

Most literary critics think that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of( )with a double vision.