SECTION I: True or False Questions Question 1 (1 Point)

SECTION I: True or False Questions
Question 1 (1 point)
Based on information provided in the course readings, the last line of

James Wright’s poem “Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in
Pine Island, Minnesota” represents a clear shift in the tone and
expectations created by the earlier parts of the poem.
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Based on information from the course readings and in-class activities,

lectures, and discussions, the meaning of literature always stays
constant across time.
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False
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Based on information provided in the course readings, the fourth basic

strategy for the close reading of literary works is “reread the text.”
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False
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According to information provided in the course readings, all “people

who use the term literature as a compliment never disagree about
whether a certain text deserves it.”
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False
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According to information provided in the course readings, “Much

academic writing is, in fact, based on real life experiences. You’ll find
the two interconnected in course after course.”
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False
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One of the course readings states that, “Some might ask if world
literature is like world music, blending various local expressions into a
new kind of literature that cannot be referred back to a single nation.”
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False
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Based on information provided in the course readings, the very first
kind of issue that arises in literature courses is listed as “Issues of
cause and effect.”
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False
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According to information regarding science and technology provided in

the course readings, “The first modern factories were built, and their
output grew enormously with the invention of the steam engine,
perfected by Isaac Newton in 1769.”
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False
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One of the course readings states that, “The term world literature has
received a significant renewed interest in the past decade, perhaps
more than anything as the companion to the central keyword of the
times, technology.”
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False
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Based on information from in-class activities, lectures, and

assignments, most literary works express their meanings though a
combination of both literal and figurative language.
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False
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One of the course readings argues that, “World literature only makes
sense if one recognizes that each reader brings his or her own history
to it, and that history has to present a coherence which is both shared
with the literary community, and unique to the reader.”
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False
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According to class discussions, activities, and assignments, the

language in Langston Hughes’ poem “Mother to Son” would have stayed
exactly the same if the poem had been titled “Father to Daughter.”
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False
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underlined portions of the following excerpt from Langston Hughes’
poem “Mother to Son”
And sometimes goin’ in the dark

Where there ain’t been no light.
So boy, don’t you turn back.
Don’t you set down on the steps
’Cause you finds it’s kinder hard.
Don’t you fall now—
serve as an example of the literary term onomatopoeia.
True
False
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According to class discussions, activities, and assignments, William

Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 130” seems like the opposite of a traditional love
poem—because it lists all of the ways that his mistress is unattractive—
and yet can be understood as a traditional love poem at the same
time—because the poem still asserts that the speaker’s love for her is
real.
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False
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According to class discussions, activities, and assignments about how

language in literary texts works, the terms “signs” and “symbols” mean
precisely the same thing.
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False
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According to class discussions, activities, and assignments, the fact that

the meaning of the word “mistress” in William Shakespeare “Sonnet 130”
has changed so much since Shakespeare’s era is an example of the way
that literary texts can express different cultural moments at specific
points in time.
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False
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terms encoding and decodingcan be related to the study of world
literature because encoding is equivalent to the act of writing (the
construction of meaning through a system of signs and symbols)
and decoding is equivalent to the act of reading (the interpretation of
the meaning expressed through a system of signs and symbols).
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False
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term didactic refers to the act of placing two starkly different words,
ideas, people, or things right next to each other in order to highlight
the differences between them.
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False
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term connotation refers to the dictionary definition of a word, nothing
more, nothing less.
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False
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According to class discussions, activities, and assignments, ADJECTIVES

are considered to be the most important kinds of word in English
literature because of their descriptive power.
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False
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According to class discussions, activities, and assignments, the use of

winter in a literary text almost always means more than just that
specific time of year; winter usually represents death or the end of
something, either literally or figuratively.
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False
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The term carpe diem, Latin for “seize the day,” refers to literary texts
that emphasize living for the future instead of being concerned with the
here and now.
True
False
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According to class discussions, activities, and assignments, expressions

such as “I haven’t had pizza in a million years!” and “This exam will take
me forever to finish.” are examples of the literary term hyperbole.
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False
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expressions “He is a beast on the football field.” and “She is a blur on
the basketball court.” are examples of the linguistic and/or literary
term onomatopoeia.
True
False
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According to class discussions, activities, and assignments, while the

term syntax refers to the specific word choices used in a text, the
term diction refers to the order in which you put those words; this is
because English words only have a lot of meaning once they are
arranged in a specific order with other words
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False
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SECTION II: Multiple Choice Questions
Based on information provided in the course readings, the term “literary
canon” refers to those literary works that __________.
are taught again and again
have been lost to history
are only performed and never read
everyone loves to study
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Based on information provided in the course readings, the eight basic

strategies for close reading of literary works include __________.
make predictions as you read
ask questions about the texts as you read
look for patterns in the text as well as disruptions in those patterns
pay attention to ambiguities
all of the above
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Based on information provided in the course readings, the missing
words from the following excerpt from James Wright’s poem “Lying in a
Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota”
Over my head, I see the __________ butterfly,

Asleep on the __________ trunk,
Blowing like a leaf in __________ shadow.
Down the ravine behind the empty house,
The cowbells follow one another
Into the distances of the afternoon.
serve as evidence that this poems uses __________ as a literary device.
color
numbers
determiners
culture
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Based on information provided in the course readings, “an argument

involves six basic elements. When you argue, you attempt to persuade
an audience to accept your claims regarding an issue by presenting
evidence and relying on __________.”
logic
language
warrants
ethos
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Based on information provided in the course readings, the narrow and

limited definition of the term literature that had prevailed up to the
mid-1900s began to change in the 1970s. In 1979, a National
Endowment for the Humanities-Modern Language Association institute
“applied the term literature to __________ that had not been thought of
as such.”
genres
works
texts
songs
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One of the course readings explains that, “In particular, literary works
encourage you to ponder the multiple __________ of language: how, for
example, a word’s meaning can vary depending on __________.”
dimensions, context
layers, situation
aspects, setting
elements, environment
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Based on information provided in the course readings, “You risk

obscuring the intellectual, emotional, and __________ richness of a text
if you insist on reducing it to a single message.”
stylistic
linguistic
aesthetic
narratological
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According to the information provided in the course readings, “With

issues of __________, you observe how a text is organized and try to
determine how certain parts of the text relate to other parts.”
structure
arrangement
aesthetics
pattern
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One of the course readings states that you should, “Recall that we
defined an issue as a question with various debatable answers.
__________, as we use the term, are the debatable answers.”
Claims
Warrants
Responses
Symbols
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Based on information provided in the course readings, “When you make

an argument about literature, the evidence most valued by your
audience is likely to be details from the work itself. Direct quotations
from the text are powerful indications that your claims are __________.”
correct
engaging
performative
well grounded
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According to information found in the course readings, “A driving force

in the changing expectations of middle-class subjects, in fact, was the
opening up of the world through rapidly expanding travel and
__________.”
technology
trade
teaching
tools
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Based on information supplied by the course readings, “This was a new

sort of empire: developed and maintained less by governments and
guns than by companies and __________.”
invoices
goods
regulations
creativity
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One of the course readings asserts that, while “some literatures are old”
and "other literatures are very young,” the “important thing is that, no
matter which definition one prefers, the literature of the world will
always be too broad to __________.”
understand
comprehend
interpret
evaluate
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One of the course readings argues that, “The idea of globalization and
the accompanying changes in geopolitics, media, economy and cultural
__________, have only within the past decade and a half propelled the
idea of world literature into a new era.”
expression
articulation
replication
identity
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underlined portions of the following excerpt from Langston Hughes’
poem “Mother to Son”
Well, son, I’ll tell you:

Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
It’s had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor—
Bare.
are an example of the literary term __________.
anaphora
metaphor
allusion
deixis
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underlined portions of the following excerpt from Kendrick Lamar's
song “DNA”
Watchin’ all the snakes, curvin’ all the fakes

Phone never on, I don’t conversate
I don’t compromise, I just penetrate
Sex, money, murder—these are the breaks
are examples of three linguistic and/or literary terms (in order as they
appear in the poem): 1) __________, 2) __________, and 3) __________.
dropping Gs, backformation, alliteration
dropping Gs, metaphor, alliteration
nominalization, backformation, simile
deixis, inversion, direct repetition
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underlined portions of William Shakespeare’s poem “Sonnet 130”
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;

Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
serve as examples of three linguistic and/or literary terms (in order as

they appear in the poem): 1) __________, 2) __________, and 3)
__________.
simile, oppositional binary, deixis
repetition, metaphor, turn
personification, euphemism, anaphora
repetition, oppositional binary, turn
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underlined portions of the following excerpt from Pablo Neruda’s poem
“I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You”
Maybe January light will consume

My heart with its cruel
Ray, stealing my key to true calm.
In this part of the story I am the one who
Dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you,
Because I love you, Love, in fire and blood.
are two examples of the literary term __________.
deixis
direct address
enjambment
didacticism
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underlined portions of the following excerpt from Pablo Neruda’s poem
“I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You”
I do not love you except because I love you;

I go from loving to not loving you,
From waiting to not waiting for you
My heart moves from cold to fire.
I love you only because it's you the one I love;
I hate you deeply, and hating you
Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you
Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.
Maybe January light will consume
My heart with its cruel
Ray, stealing my key to true calm.
In this part of the story I am the one who
Dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you,
Because I love you, Love, in fire and blood.
express three examples of the linguistic and/or literary term __________.
oppositional binary
simile
inversion
alliteration
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According to class discussions, activities, and assignments, the end

rhyme scheme of the following excerpt from Elizabeth Akers Allen’s
poem “At Last”
At last, when all the summer shine

That warmed life’s early hours is past,
Your loving fingers seek for mine
And hold them close—at last—at last!
Not oft the robin comes to build
Its nest upon the leafless bough
By autumn robbed, by winter chilled,—
But you, dear heart, you love me now.
would be written as __________.

ABABCDCD
ABCDABCD
AABBCCDD
ABACADAE
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According to class discussions, activities, and assignments, the fact that

a poem’s end rhyme scheme (such as A B A A B B C B C C D C)
expresses observable patterns of structure on one hand and changes in
sounds on the other can be understood as the combination of
__________ and __________.
unity, variety
organization, interest
literal, figurative
encoding, decoding
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underlined portion of the following excerpt from Elizabeth Akers Allen’s
poem “At Last”
This blessed hour atones for all.
I fear not all that Time or Fate
May bring to burden heart or brow,—
Strong in the love that came so late,
Our souls shall keep it always now!
includes two examples of the literary term __________.
personification
simile
direct address
hyperbole
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expressions “The walls have ears.” and “Fear walked right into the
room.” are examples of the literary term ___________.
metaphor
personification
alliteration
euphemism
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linguistic term __________ refers to the way that speakers such as Yoda
use words out of their typical order so as to draw more attention to
their meaning. Examples would include “Hate you, I do.” and “Happy,
you should be.”
euphemism
lexicon
inversion
backformation
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According to class discussions, activities, and assignments, another

name for the concept of direct address is __________ because it refers to
a character in a storyworld acknowledging the audience and speaking
directly to them.
begging the question
deconstructing the envelope
self-actualizing the pyramid

breaking the fourth wall
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SECTION III: Literary Text Annotations
Question 51 (10 points)
For the following poem—“Where the Sidewalk Ends” by Shel Silverstein—

annotate (at least) 20 different language elements, aspects, devices,
usages, and/or meanings. In order to earn the highest number of points
possible, make sure to:
 IDENTIFY—clearly mark AND number the 20 parts of the poem that

you are annotating (you may use bold, underline, or colors, but stay
consistent)
 LABEL—clearly label each of the 20 parts of the poem you are
annotating (remember that labels such as “figurative language” are
not specific enough; go further; be more detailed inn your analysis)
 EXPLAIN—lastly, clearly explain the meaning and significance of all 20
parts of the poem you are annotating (tell how you interpret each
element, describe how it relates to the rest of the poem, break down
its importance, etc.)
Please note that you do NOT have to use complete sentences or

paragraphs in this section (although you certainly may if that is how you
are most comfortable responding to literary texts). Just make sure that
you use complete thoughts. These MUST be your own annotations and
NOT those from any other source. I want to see how YOU can
demonstrate the literary analysis methods that we have been practicing
all semester.
“Where the Sidewalk Ends” by Shel Silverstein

There is a place where the sidewalk ends
And before the street begins,
And there the grass grows soft and white,
And there the sun burns crimson bright,
And there the moon-bird rests from his flight
To cool in the peppermint wind.
Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black

And the dark street winds and bends.
Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow
We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And watch where the chalk-white arrows go
To the place where the sidewalk ends.
Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,

And we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go,
For the children, they mark, and the children, they know
The place where the sidewalk ends.
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For the following song—“Bad Blood” by Taylor Swift—annotate (at least)
20 different language elements, aspects, devices, usages, and/or
meanings. In order to earn the highest number of points possible, make
sure to:
 IDENTIFY—clearly mark AND number the 20 parts of the song that you
are annotating (you may use bold, underline, or colors, but stay
consistent)
 LABEL—clearly label each of the 20 parts of the song you are
annotating (remember that labels such as “figurative language” are
not specific enough; go further; be more detailed in your analysis)
 EXPLAIN—lastly, clearly explain the meaning and significance of all 20
parts of the song you are annotating (tell how you interpret each
element, describe how it relates to the rest of the song, break down
its importance, etc.)
Please note that you do NOT have to use complete sentences or

paragraphs in this section (although you certainly may if that is how you
are most comfortable responding to literary texts). Just make sure that
you use complete thoughts. These MUST be your own annotations and
NOT those from any other source. I want to see how YOU can
demonstrate the literary analysis methods that we have been practicing
all semester.
Bad Blood” by Taylor Swift
'Cause baby now we got bad blood

You know it used to be mad love
So take a look at what you've done
Now we got problems
And I don't think we can solve them
You made a really deep cut
And baby now we got bad blood
Did you have to do this?

I was thinking that you could be trusted
Did you have to ruin what was shining now it's all rusted
Did you have to hit me where I'm weak baby I couldn't breathe
I rubbed it in so deep
Salt in the wound like you're laughing right at me
Oh, it's so sad to think about the good times
You and I

Now we got problems

Did you think we'd be fine?

Still got scars on my back from your knife
So don't think it's in the past
These kind of wounds they last and they last
Now did you think it all through?
All these things will catch up to you
And time can heal but this won't
So if you come in my way, just don't
Oh, it's so sad to think about the good times
You and I
Now we got problems

Band-aids don't fix bullet holes

You say sorry just for show
You live like that, you live with ghosts (Ghosts)
Band-aids don't fix bullet holes (Hey!)
You say sorry just for show (Hey!)
You live like that, you live with ghosts (Hey!)
Hm, if you love like that blood runs bad

Now we got problems

And I don't think we can solve them (Think we can solve them)

So take a look at what you've done (Look at what you've done)
'Cause baby now we got bad blood (Woah)
Now we got problems
And baby now we got bad blood (Hey!)
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SECTION IV: Discussion Questions
Compose (at least) one well-developed response paragraph to the

following prompt:
Using any song(s) of your choosing (in any genre, language, era, etc.),
identify (at least) three different types of love that are being
represented in your selected song(s). Explain how the song(s) express
these different kinds of love—this will require that you include “direct
quotations” from your song(s). Finally, define how these kinds of love
are or are not manifested in your own life. NOTE: Make sure to include
the full title of the song(s) and their respective artist(s).
In your paragraph(s), make sure to respond honestly, relate it to your

own experiences, and provide support (direct quotations, paraphrases,
examples, explanations, reasons, etc,). The way to earn the highest
number of points possible is to be clear in your analysis, develop your
ideas further than most people might, and make connections and
explain the significance of those connections. Don’t just throw
information at the reader; show precisely why your information matters.
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following prompt:
List (at least) three reasons why studying “world literature” is

particularly difficult. Don’t just list these; explain them. Finally, make
sure to provide examples that help illustrate your points. These
examples can come from ANY literary texts we have used in this class
so far, or you can make up your own. The point is to clarify what you
are saying about these issues with specific examples (where they come
from is less important than how well they help you say what you are
trying to say).
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following prompt:
List (at least) five things about language or literature that you, as an
individual, have learned in this course so far. Explain how your
understandings of these things have changed. Finally, provide an
example of each aspect of language or literature that you discuss in this
response. NOTE: Yes, this question seems to assume that you have
learned some things about language and literature, but if you have
honestly learned NOTHING, you still have to figure out a way to respond
to the prompt.


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Based on information provided in the course readings, the last line of

Based on information from the course readings and in-class activities,

Based on information provided in the course readings, the fourth basic

According to information provided in the course readings, all “people

According to information provided in the course readings, “Much

According to information regarding science and technology provided in

Based on information from in-class activities, lectures, and

According to class discussions, activities, and assignments, the

According to class discussions, activities, and assignments, the

And sometimes goin’ in the dark

serve as an example of the literary term onomatopoeia.

According to class discussions, activities, and assignments, William

According to class discussions, activities, and assignments about how

According to class discussions, activities, and assignments, the fact that

According to class discussions, activities, and assignments, the

According to class discussions, activities, and assignments, the

According to class discussions, activities, and assignments, the

According to class discussions, activities, and assignments, ADJECTIVES

According to class discussions, activities, and assignments, the use of

According to class discussions, activities, and assignments, expressions

According to class discussions, activities, and assignments, the

According to class discussions, activities, and assignments, while the

are taught again and again

have been lost to history

are only performed and never read

everyone loves to study

Based on information provided in the course readings, the eight basic

make predictions as you read

ask questions about the texts as you read

look for patterns in the text as well as disruptions in those patterns

pay attention to ambiguities

all of the above

Over my head, I see the __________ butterfly,

serve as evidence that this poems uses __________ as a literary device.

Based on information provided in the course readings, “an argument

Based on information provided in the course readings, the narrow and

Based on information provided in the course readings, “You risk

According to the information provided in the course readings, “With

Based on information provided in the course readings, “When you make

According to information found in the course readings, “A driving force

Based on information supplied by the course readings, “This was a new

According to class discussions, activities, and assignments, the

Well, son, I’ll tell you:

are an example of the literary term __________.

According to class discussions, activities, and assignments, the

Watchin’ all the snakes, curvin’ all the fakes

dropping Gs, backformation, alliteration

dropping Gs, metaphor, alliteration

nominalization, backformation, simile

deixis, inversion, direct repetition

According to class discussions, activities, and assignments, the

My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;

serve as examples of three linguistic and/or literary terms (in order as

simile, oppositional binary, deixis

repetition, metaphor, turn

personification, euphemism, anaphora

repetition, oppositional binary, turn

According to class discussions, activities, and assignments, the

Maybe January light will consume

are two examples of the literary term __________.

According to class discussions, activities, and assignments, the