Your midterm is on Monday, March 10 and will cover all of our readings up to Emily Dickinson. The exam will consist of short answers, matching, identifications, and a brief analysis of a poem.
Here's how I might go about studying for each of the sections...
MATCHING: Below are some key terms you should be familiar with. Identify which works are linked to each term as you study for this exam.
Travel narrative
slave narrative
Noble Savage
Narrative Truth vs. Objective Truth
Enlightenment
Optimism
Picaresque novel
Mono no aware
sabi
joruri
giri
ninjo
Romanticism
Classicism
teufelspakt
Realism
Rationalism/Humanism
Free will
Frame narrative
SHORT ANSWER: Determine what are the essential questions asked of the reader in each work. For example, NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND asks us to consider the importance of free will in a person's life, while FAUST asks us to see the value of a life composed of "deeds" rather than philosophy. If you can come up with essential questions for all the works, you should be able to respond to the short answer section readily.
ID's: As for the ID's, I'll choose important quotes from he texts. They won't be arbitrary selections, but rather quotes in which a theme is revealed. These will be quotes we will have talked about in class. You'll have to identify the speaker and the situation.
POEM ANALYSIS: When asked to analyze the poem in the exam, make sure to consider all the elements of the poem: subject, theme, argument, structure/form, key images, and other effects (puns, allusions, sound, rhyme).
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