HUMANITIES FINAL 2008

Final Rubric (Packer)

Multiple choice (10 questions)

Literature Movements

• Puritans
• Modernism Intro
• Harlem Rennisance
• Marxism

Literary Criticism Types

• Classification - 4 types
• Feminist
• Biographical and Historical
• Reader Response

Multiple choice - Quote Recognition (10 questions)

Novels

• Huck Finn
• Of Mice and Men
• Catcher in the Rye

Short Stories

• Nataniel Hawthorne - Young Goodman Brown
• Nataniel Hawthorne - The Minister's Black Veil
• Nataniel Hawthorne - The Birthmark
• Kate Chopin - A Respectable Woman
• Kate Chopin - The Story of an Hour
• Hills Like White Elephants - Ernest Hemmingway

Essays

• Welter, Barbara - The Cult of True Womanhood
• Johynathan Swift - A Modest Proposal
• Ralph Waldo Emerson - Self-Reliance

American Short Stories Book

• The Black Ball (Ralph Ellison)- p115
• Barn Burning (William Faulkner)- p185
• Where have You gone Charming Billy (Tim O'Brian) - p337

Poetry - Matching - Quote Recognition (15 questions)

• TS Elliott/ Exra Pound/ William Carlos Williams/E E Cummings/ Robert Frost
  • Ezra Pound
    • Salutation the Second (Books/Literate-ness)
    • A Pact (with walt whitman)
    • In a Station of the Metro (2 lines long)
  • William Carlos Williams
    • The Young Housewife (drives by a woman)
    • Portrait of a Lady (Which shore? appletrees? woman's thighs)
    • This is Just to Say (eaten plums)
    • The Great figure (figure on firetruck)
    • Spring and All (spring is not a happy time)
    • The red wheelbarrow (this is a shitty little poem)
  • EE Cummings
    • hopefully
                                  you
                                                                         recognize
               this poet
  • Robert Frost
    • Mending Wall (wall between neighbors)
    • The Road not taken (splitting paths in life)
    • The Line-Gang (prisoners working)
      
• Woman's Poetry - Anne Sexton/Maya Angelou/Alice Walker
  • Anne Sexton
    • Her Kind (witches)
    • Housewife (women marry houses)
  • Maya Angelou
    • Still I rise (you may tear me down but still i rise)
  • Alice Walker
    • Women (mama's generation of women)
    • On Stripping Bark from Myself (self freedom over life)
• Black People Poetry - James Weldon Johnson/Claude McKay/Countee Cullen/Langston Hughes
  • Claude McKay
    • If we must die (let it not be like hogs - black pride)
    • America (hate-love situation)
  • Countee Cullen
    • Incident (gets called nigger)
    • Yet do I marvel (why did he make a black poet)
    • From the dark tower (slavery/planting - objections/refrences)
  • Langston Hughes
    • The Weary Blues (blues song within poem)
    • A Negro Speaks of Rivers (actually about rivers..)
    • I, Too (darker brother - black pride)
    • Harlem (what happens to a dream deferred?)
• Puritan Poety - William Bradford/Anne Bradstreet/Edward Taylor
  • Anne Bradstreet
    • [Burning of her house]
  • Edward Taylor
    • Upon A spider catching a fly (mhmm)
    • Huswifery (lord make my thyne loom)
• War and Patriotism - EE Cummings Only
  • Some EE Cummings..

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