Study Guide, Exam 1
Engl 4040 Modernism and Postmodernism
O'Donnell, ETSU, Fall 2013
October 9, 2013

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About the Exam
1. The exam will have two sections: I) identification, and II) short essay. Each is explained below.
2. You will have the full class period on Thursday, October 17, 2013, for this exam.
3. The exam will be "open book:" All the prompts chosen for the exam will first be posted on this study guide web page, and I encourage you to bring your books and notes to the exam. However, I require that you compose your responses during the exam period, rather than composing the sentences ahead of time and transcribing them during the exam.

Section I. Identification
This section will be worth half of the exam grade. The section will include a list of ten prompts -- that is, names, titles, concepts, and/or quotes. All ten prompts on the exam will be drawn from the list of 18, below. From the ten on the exam, you will in turn select seven, to which you will respond in writing.

For each of those seven prompts, write a "mini essay" -- three or four clear, complete, self-explanatory sentences -- in which you identify 1) the author(s) and text(s) with which prompt is associated; 2) the context or definition; 3) an important issue associated with the prompt.

1. Harriet Monroe

2. breaking the frame
3. Howard C. Campbell

4. synesthesia

5. Toyota Celica

6. SIMUVAC

7. ''On or about December 1910 human character changed.''

8. "Robert Kennedy, whose summer home is eight miles away from the home I live in all year round, was shot two nights ago."

9. Big Ben

10. Dylar

11. epigram

12. 4'33"

13. "Poo-tee-weet? "

14. serenity prayer

15. literary canon

16. epiphany

17. vignette

18. "Anecdote of the Jar"

Section II. Short Essay
This section will be worth half of the exam grade. Write a short essay--a few hundred words--in response to these questions:

1. What is literary modernism?
2. What is postmodernism?

Discuss in terms of selected texts that we read for this class.