
per. 4 Final Exam
To prepare for this assignment, consider the literary periods and the “big ideas” that are represented in each of them. Select one idea from each of three periods with which you most identify. For each selected idea, write a reflective paragraph about your connection to and experience(s) regarding this idea, referencing at least one piece of literature from the period to back up your example. Begin your paper with an introduction that mentions each of the literary periods we’ve studied, and specifically highlight the three you’ll discuss in your paper. End with a conclusion that states which of these three periods you find most influential for you personally and why.
Your paper will be graded on the following:
Use of detail (regarding the period and literary works)
Elaboration
Coherence
Analysis
Personal Reflection
Literary Periods/Works to consider:
Encounters and Foundations to 1800
Romanticism: 1800-1860
Rise of Realism:
Civil War to 1914
The Moderns: 1914-1939
Contemporary: 1939-present
Intro, 14-15
Bradstreet, 27
Edwards, 45
Franklin, 75
Jefferson, 97
(Crucible, 1216)
Intro, 167, 168, 171
Longfellow, 195
Thoreau, 213
Hawthorne, 249
Poe, 277, 297
Intro, 457, 459
Douglass, 465
Twain
Intro, 639
Poets: Pound, 648
Eliot, 655
Williams, 665
Moore, 671
Cummings, 675
Frost, 801, 805
Cullen, 819
Hemingway, 683
Faulkner, 721
Of Mice and Men
The Crucible, 1216
Montana, 1948
Danticat
Tan
Alvarez
(Intro, 899)
Theodore Roethke, p. 1132
“Night Journey”
Richard Wilbur, p. 1136
“The Beautiful Changes”
Elizabeth Bishop, p. 1143
“One Art”
Sylvia Plath, p. 1146
“Mirror”
Anne Sexton, p. 1154
“Young”
Gwendolyn Brooks, p. 1158
“The Bean Eaters”
Carolyn Forche, p. 1167
“The Memory of Elena”
Rita Dove, p. 1179
“Testimonial”
Mark Doty, p. 1183
“Coastal”
Assignment: All of the following should be completed on the same side of the large sheet of paper.
Samuel Johnson says, "Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature" (2394).
Samuel Johnson believes that only universal ideas please: "Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature" (2394).
Samuel Johnson believes that "Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature" (2394).
Give page numbers even if you paraphrase rather than quote directly:
Samuel Johnson believes that only the truest representations of universal human nature constitute great art (2394).