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Week #9

Spring Break -- No Class

Week #10 - Unit 2: Analyzing Theme, Tone, and Figurative Language

Test 2 this week

What Should I Study?

• Unit Definitions from Weeks 6-7. You should be able to define and apply the terms from Unit 2. All definitions are listed in the "This Week Archive" in the Resources section of the course website.
• Be able to identify and analyze formal features and figurative language in the poems and short stories for Unit 2. Be sure that you know which terms are types of formal features and which are types of figurative language. Also, be sure to explain examples completely; for example:
  • If you identify imagery be sure to indicate a specific part of the poem and which sense is appealed to
  • If you identify a metaphor or simile, be sure to indicate what is being compared to what and why that comparison is significant
  • If you identify a symbol be sure to indicate what the symbol is and what it represents
  • If you identify allegory or personification be sure to indicate what the abstract idea is (allegory) or what the object is (personification) and what human qualities it is given

About the test

Test #2

timed exam (2 hours 30 minutes) to be completed 3/16 (B)

Parts I and II of this test are CLOSED book and notes. Part III is OPEN book, CLOSED notes. The second test will include the following:

• Part I: Short answer/fill in the blank exercises for definitions from Unit II: Theme, Tone, and Figurative Language (review the This Week Archive) 
  
• Part II: Short analysis questions of figurative language/formal features in the poems covered in Unit 2:
   
  "The Tally Stick" by Jarold Ramsey (596)
  "love poem" by Linda Pastan (597)
  "To the Ladies" by Mary, Lady Chudleigh (613)
  "London" by William Blake (625)
  "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell, (671-2)
  [When our two souls stand up] by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (786)
  [My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun] by William Shakespeare (788)
  "Harlem" by Langston Hughes (820)
  "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen (823)
  "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning (827-8)
  "What's That Smell in the Kitchen" by Marge Piercy (830)
  [Because I could not stop for death] by Emily Dickinson (980)
  
   
• Part III: Short essay question based on the fiction works covered in Unit 2. This portion of the exam will be open book:
   
  "Roman Fever" by Edith Wharton (110-19)
  "Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allen Poe (123-28)
  "Janus" by Ann Beattie (248-51)
  "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce (507-13)

This is a timed exam not to exceed the class period. Misspelling and minor grammar errors will not count against you, but you may lose points in essays for severe errors that detract from the sense of your answer.

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