Extended Paragraph Response
Compose a response of at least two (2) well developed paragraphs in response to each of three (3) of the following suggestions. You must address at least four (4) different stories between your responses. Students will be graded on their ability to discuss the stories in detail, using examples effectively. Paragraphs should show good unity of focus, effective topic sentences, and reasonably solid mechanics. Remember to enclose quoted material in quotations marks, and take care to paraphrase responsibly, but full citation details are not required as the time pressures of exam conditions do not permit. The best responses will show control of plot details, deft comparison, effective quotation and paraphrase, and control of writing mechanics.
Sometimes power is invested in unlikely characters. Identify two stories in which power is exercised by unexpected characters. Why is this power arrangement important to the themes of these stories?
Discuss the significance of liminal spaces or threshold elements in two of the stories weve read this term.
Discuss the significance of the gendering of domestic spaces in two of the stories weve read this term.
How do authors use details of setting to develop aspects theme?
How do authors use narrator reliability to develop aspects of theme?
Several stories address the question of the importance of public image, public perception, and conventions. Discuss the thematic importance of public perception in at least two stories weve read this term.
choose from :
(PLEASE USE LONDON AND FROST ROAD NOT TAKEN AS 2 of the 4)
Shakespeare, Sonnet #18, [BIL 475]
Shakespeare, Sonnet #29, [BIL 476]
Shakespeare, Sonnet #73, [BIL 476]
Shakespeare, Sonnet #130, [BIL 477]
Keats, “La Bell Dame sans Merci” [ BIL 516]
Browning, “My Last Duchess” [BIL 542]
*Blake, “London” [BIL 499]
*Frost, The Road Not Taken [BIL 583]
Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening [BIL 584]
Boland, Night Feed [BIL 686]
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Black Cat” [BIL 16],
Flannery OConnor, “A Good Man is Hard to Find [BIL 77]
Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour [BIL 25]
Edith Wharton, “Atrophy” [BIL 43]
Ernest Hemingway, A Clean, Well-Lighted Place [BIL 72]
