MIDTERM REVIEW
As mentioned in class today, everyone will be responsible for selecting what they interpret as an important passage from one of the assigned readings through Feb 28 and then writing a response to that passage in the form of an answer for the midterm exam. Please follow the directions below as you write your mock midterm exam answer. The directions are from the Guidelines for the Midterm Examination that Professor Keller sent out earlier this week. As you will see after reading the guidelines, the current writing assignment incorporates Part I (Identification of passages) and Part II (Brief explication of selected passages) of the exam. Lastly, because I would like you to collectively construct a useful study tool, you may not choose and post on a passage if someone else in your section has already chosen and written on it.
1) Identify the full publishing name of the author and the title of the work in which the passage appears. Spell and punctuate correctly.
2) Write a sentence or two describing the context of the passage in the work by identifying: the speaker(s) or the characters(s) involved; where in the plot the passage appears or its place in/relation to the work's structure; and what precisely is happening. Describing context might involve noting other cultural contexts or historical events to which the work responds.
3) Write two or three sentences explaining the significance of the passage and how that significance is demonstrated in the specific details of the passage--such as its specific language or imagery, its tone, its uses of repetition, figurative language, allusion, etc.
If the passage you select is poetry, modify these directions as appropriate to the passage. If it doesn't involve character or plot, then in a) identify a major theme of the passage, and in b) explain the poems development of that theme by analyzing the details of the text (such as imagery, the figurative language, the connotations of specific words, the uses of rhyme, repetition, allusion, etc.).
Note: Do not post on your blog. I will set up two separate spaces on this blog for each discussion section to compile their answers.
1) Identify the full publishing name of the author and the title of the work in which the passage appears. Spell and punctuate correctly.
2) Write a sentence or two describing the context of the passage in the work by identifying: the speaker(s) or the characters(s) involved; where in the plot the passage appears or its place in/relation to the work's structure; and what precisely is happening. Describing context might involve noting other cultural contexts or historical events to which the work responds.
3) Write two or three sentences explaining the significance of the passage and how that significance is demonstrated in the specific details of the passage--such as its specific language or imagery, its tone, its uses of repetition, figurative language, allusion, etc.
If the passage you select is poetry, modify these directions as appropriate to the passage. If it doesn't involve character or plot, then in a) identify a major theme of the passage, and in b) explain the poems development of that theme by analyzing the details of the text (such as imagery, the figurative language, the connotations of specific words, the uses of rhyme, repetition, allusion, etc.).
Note: Do not post on your blog. I will set up two separate spaces on this blog for each discussion section to compile their answers.
posted by Hai at 4:29 PM
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Author: Langston Hughes
Poem: Mulatto
The poem is a representation of the disgust and humiliation of the "mixed" race by the white half of their geneology. The significance of this poem is to explain another level of white supremacy and the ideals that plague the whites as horrific sociological status quos. Being mulatto entails many derrogatory aspects the primary being the dehumanization and disregard of the white race for their child. This really bothers me because it begs the question, why create me if you're just going to hate me.
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