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Unit 1 Quiz:Unit 1.8 Earliest Voices QUIZCompare and contrast the lives and writing of Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley.What is the difference between the denotative and connotative meaning of a word?Unit 1 Test:Choose one author from the early American and colonial period. Identify what he or she wrote and describe his or her purpose, audience, and style.?Respond in a paragraph, and make sure your answer is written in complete sentences.Respond to one of the following prompts in a well-organized essay.Jonathan Edwards’s “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” Thomas Paine’s?Common Sense, and Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence are all examples of persuasive writing. Analyze the use of diction, syntax, and persuasive elements in these writings. Write your answer in complete sentences.Choose two authors from the early American and colonial period. Identify what they wrote and compare their purpose, audience, and style.Unit 2 Quiz2.6 Transcendentalism?Briefly describe what the literary movement Romanticism valued.List the eight parts of speech and give an example of eachBriefly describe Poe’s requirements for the short story genre.Unit 2 Test23.??Evaluate the following descriptive paragraph. How well does it appeal to the reader's senses? What is the overall effect?"About 15 miles below Monterey, on the wild coast, the Torres family had their farm, a few sloping acres above a cliff that dropped to the brown reefs and to the hissing white waters of the ocean. Behind the farm the stone mountains stood up against the sky. The farm buildings huddled like the clinging aphids on the mountain skirts, crouched low to the ground as though the wind might blow them into the sea. The little shack, the rattling, rotting barn were gray-bitten with sea salt, beaten by the damp wind until they had taken on the color of the granite hills. Two horses, a red cow and a red calf, half a dozen pigs and a flock of lean, multi-colored chickens stocked the place. A little corn was raised on the sterile slope, and it grew short and thick under the wind, and all the cobs formed on the landward sides of the stalks."?— John Steinbeck, “Flight”Your response should include the following to receive the points in parentheses:Respond in 3–5 complete sentences. (4pts)24.??Define three characteristics that differentiate the literature of American romanticism from the literature of early America and the colonial period. Use specific details from romantic and colonial authors to support your points.Your responses should include the following to receive the points in parentheses:Respond in a paragraph. Answer is written in complete sentences. (4pts)25.??Respond to?two of the following prompts (you will write one response here and your second essay should be entered in response to question 26):A. Poe believed that good short stories require a single, unifying effect. Evaluate one of the stories in this unit using Poe’s standard of unity. Do the descriptions, incidents, and images all contribute to the single effect of the story? Is there a single effect? Feel free to evaluate Poe’s own story.?B. Consider what you have learned about American history during the period of 1820 to 1864. How do the stories in this unit reflect what was going on in the country then?C. Read and analyze "When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer" by Walt Whitman. What?romantic ideas does it express,?and how does the structure of the poem reinforce the meaning?When I heard the learn’d astronomer;When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them;When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself,In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.Your response should include the following to receive the points in parentheses:Respond in a paragraph. Answer is written in complete sentences.26.??Write your second response here to the question above.Your response should include the following to receive the points in parentheses:Respond in a paragraph. Answer is written in complete sentences.Unit 4 Test5.??Explain how Ambrose Bierce's use of foreshadowing or flashback influences "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge."22 and 23Your teacher will grade your response to ensure you receive proper credit for your answer. Your response should include the following to receive the points in parentheses:Respond in?a well-organized essay. Answer is written in complete sentences.Respond to?two?of the following prompts:A. In realistic fiction, ordinary characters speak authentic dialect in recognizable settings. The author's voice is usually objective, and the tone of presentation is matter-of-fact. The events of the stories are close to what does or could happen in everyday life. Choose a story from the Realism and Regionalism unit and decide how it fits the definition of Realism. Use evidence from the text to support your view.B. Regionalism is a form of realism that emphasizes realistic settings, using local dialect, customs, and other specific details of a place. Identify the regional stories in the Realism and Regionalism unit. What part of the country is portrayed, and which details in the story distinguish it from other regions in America?C. Consider what you have learned about American history during the period of 1860 to the early 1900s. How do the stories in this unit reflect what was going on in the country then?1st Semester Final Exam44.??Respond in a well-organized essay. (16 points)In the Teachlet? tutorial “The Birth of a National Literature” that introduced this course, the narrator had this to say:“Americans value national literature because they value the culture, morals, and philosophies upon which the United States was built.”?In this course, you have read a variety of American literature that reflect our American values, morals, and philosophies. Choose the one piece of literature that you think?best?reflects American?culture,?morals, and?philosophy. In an essay of at least three paragraphs, explain your choice.45.??Respond in a well-organized essay. (16 points)In this course, you have learned about American literature from the periods and literary movements. You have studied the works of different American authors from the following time periods, literary movements, and subgenres:Early American and Colonial literatureAmerican RomanticismTranscendentalismRegionalismRealismIn an essay with at least three supporting paragraphs, choose?three authors?from different periods/movements/subgenres and discuss how their?work(s)?display the?major elements?of that period or movement or subgenre.? ................
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