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