Engl 3050 Literature and the Environment--Exam 2 Study Guide

Last update: Tuesday, November 29, 2022

The exam will be held in class on Friday, December 2. It is worth up to 15 points.

I. Identifications -- 10 points

I will choose 12 of the following 16 prompts. I will include those on the exam. From those 12 prompts, you will in turn choose 10. For each of those 10 prompts, write a sentence or two, saying a.) what the item is; b.) which text we read, that is associated with the prompt; and 3.) something significant about the prompt in relation to the text.

1. functional extinction

2. shifting baseline syndrome

3. The Keystone

4. "They mocked the presumption of even-tempered beings and made promises that they would never fear the witch inside themselves."

5. above ground atomic testing in Nevada, 1951 to 1962

6. "Every glistening egg is a memento mori."

7. "'The trees in the storm don't try to stand up straight and tall and erect. They allow themselves to bend ... with the wind. They understand the power of letting go,' continued the voice."

8. "Thinking Like a Mountain"

9. "His left paw in the Mudra of Comradely Display"

10. "Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias."

11. "On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world."

12. "She said that the breath of god was his breath yet though it pass from man to man through all of time."

13. "I think that it would be better than this, for the students, or those who desire to be benefited by it, even to lay the foundation themselves."

14. "And when they run over a man that is walking in his sleep, a supernumerary sleeper in the wrong position, and wake him up, they suddenly stop the cars, and make a hue and cry about it, as if this were an exception."

15. "Is not every continent work'd over and over with sour dead?"

16. "Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them . . ."

II. Short essay -- 5 points

Write a short essay in response to the following prompt. Give your essay a title, and have a thesis statement.

- Compare and contrast Margaret Renkl's Late Migrations and David Haskell's The Songs of Trees.