English Assignment: Take-Home Midterm Exam (Short Fiction)
Answer all 10 questions (TYPED!; worth up to 10 points each for a total of up to 100 points). I expect 2 complete, informative but concise paragraphs for each answer. If modestly employed quotes from the works are used, cite according to MLA; however, do not use a Works Cited page. I expect answers to reflect understanding of the texts as discussed in class as well as sufficient depth of critical thinking. It is not necessary to retype the questions.
1. Discuss the variability in how a 1st-person point-of-view narrator is used among three works covered in class so far.
2. Explain how gender plays a central role in understanding two different works covered in class so far.
3. Briefly discuss how IRONY is essential to the development of the plot of Sophocles' Oedipus the King as well as Robert Frost's "Mending Wall."
4. Explain how the historical aspect of setting plays a central role in understanding two different works covered in class so far. (Hint: The GOTHIC could very well be involved.)
5. Briefly discuss the significance of ARCHETYPE in Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus and Langston Hughes' "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."
6. Compare two works-one in which the environment/setting is more obviously and expectedly Gothic, the other in which the environment/setting is less obviously and expectedly Gothic. Use this comparison to discuss the strategies and advantages of each approach in terms of overall effectiveness and artistic impact.
7. We discussed how the objective correlative is used in Ernest Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," but what about in another work covered in class?
8. Briefly discuss how DIALOGUE RELATIONSHIP (the tension and irony created by two interacting discourses) is used differently in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
9. Discuss how METATEXTUALITY plays an important role in one work covered in class so far.
10. Discuss how IRONYis utilized differently among the works of Jorge Luis Borges, O. Henry, and one other author covered in class so far.
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