Study
Guide, Exam 2
Engl
4040 Modernism and Postmodernism
O'Donnell, ETSU, Fall 2015
Last update: December 2, 2015
Exam
date: Tuesday, December 8, 8-10am (during the official final exam period)
About
the Exam
A. Scope
This
exam is for material covered in class from weeks 9 through 15.
B.
Format
1.
Like exam 1, this second exam will have two sections: I) Identification, and
II) Short Essay. Each is explained below.
2.
All the prompts that may appear on the exam are now here on this study guide
web page.
3. The exam is "open book": I
encourage you to bring your texts 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
A. Instructions
This
section is worth half of the exam grade. The section will include a list of 8
prompts -- that is, names, titles, concepts, and/or quotes. All 8 prompts on
the exam will be drawn from the list of 16 prompts that appears below.
From
the 8 on the exam, you will in turn select 6, to which you will respond
in writing.
For
each of those 6 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.
B.
16 prompts
1. epistolary novel
2.
dechronification treatments
3.
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5. American Restoration Authority (ARA)
6. cubism
7.
noir fiction
8. ARPAnet
9. "Was it possible, that at every
gathering—concert, peace rally, love-in, be-in, and freak-in, here, up north,
back East, wherever—those dark crews had been busy all along, reclaiming the
music, the resistance to power, the sexual desire from epic to everyday, all
they could sweep up, for the ancient forces of greed and fear?"
10. " [A]s a poet, I
may very possibly be more interested in the so-called illogical impingements of
the connotations of words on the consciousness (and their combinations and
interplay in metaphor on this basis) than I am interested in the preservation
of their logically rigid significations at the cost of limiting my subject
matter and the perceptions involved in the poem."
11. confessional poetry
12. Poetry
magazine
13. concupiscent curds
14. persona poem
15. When
you will not see again
The
whale calves trying the light
Consider
what you will find in the black garden
And
its court
The
sea cows the Great Auks the gorillas
The
irreplaceable hosts [...]
16. Doc Sportello
Section
II. Short Essay
A. Instructions and Prompt
This
section is worth half of the exam grade. Write a short essay -- 300-500 words
-- in which you argue that a particular work is either modernist, or
postmodernist, or both, or neither. Be sure to have a point!--that is, a
purpose for discussing the work that you discuss, and for adopting the position
which you take. The works you may
discuss include any of the imaginative literature we've read since week 9, or
any of the other poems in the anthology.
B.
Grading Criteria for the Short Essay
An
"A" essay will ...
1.
... have a clear, well-defined purpose/ focus/ thesis, and a title that
reflects that;
2.
... be well-developed, including dates, author names, titles, other proper
nouns, and specific, well-selected quotes from texts;
3.
... be well-organized, with clear section divisions and paragraph breaks;
4.
... be reasonably fluent and readable;
5.
... be well edited.