Submit 5 essay questions
March 11/2013
English 1AA3 Exam Question Assignment - due Monday April 1 -
To be submitted in lecture Submit 5 essay questions to be potentially included in the exam. Each question should be suitable for a one hour essay No need to defend or explain the value of your questions, which should in any case be self-evident Aim for variety of genre, approach, subject matter, theme Try to avoid the questions you could imagine everyone else is asking 1) Compare and contrast questions a. Compare authors, forms, themes, styles, images, metaphors b. Significance if similarities and difference and the degree to which they reveal distinctive qualities of the writer 2) Relevance questions (The part that stands for the whole) What part of the whole? A scene, image, metaphor, character, event, etc. What whole for the part? The work as a whole, etc. 3) Questions based on a critical comment: Find a relevant critical comment and invite your reader to consider how it might apply to certain works. Make up a claim of your own and then invite your reader to defend or refute it. “The Story of an Hour” – Kate Chopin -
Finding meaningful things o Repetition of themes, ideas, images, etc. o Find metaphoric identifications Some sense that elements are like or similar to one another
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Illness Heart trouble Physical exhaustion as haunting Reference to death Knowledge and how it is revealed External displays of emotional response Privacy Suggestions of abandonment o Being left could be the chosen state Seasonal metaphors of Spring
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Unpacking motifs -
Inside/outside Upstairs/downstairs Male/female Life/death Freedom/imprisonment Weakness/strength
March 11/2013
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Marriage/solitude Joy/suffering
English 1AA3 Exam Question Assignment - due Monday April 1 -
To be submitted in lecture Submit 5 essay questions to be potentially included in the exam. Each question should be suitable for a one hour essay No need to defend or explain the value of your questions, which should in any case be self-evident Aim for variety of genre, approach, subject matter, theme Try to avoid the questions you could imagine everyone else is asking 1) Compare and contrast questions a. Compare authors, forms, themes, styles, images, metaphors b. Significance if similarities and difference and the degree to which they reveal distinctive qualities of the writer 2) Relevance questions (The part that stands for the whole) What part of the whole? A scene, image, metaphor, character, event, etc. What whole for the part? The work as a whole, etc. 3) Questions based on a critical comment: Find a relevant critical comment and invite your reader to consider how it might apply to certain works. Make up a claim of your own and then invite your reader to defend or refute it. “The Story of an Hour” – Kate Chopin -
Finding meaningful things o Repetition of themes, ideas, images, etc. o Find metaphoric identifications Some sense that elements are like or similar to one another
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Illness Heart trouble Physical exhaustion as haunting Reference to death Knowledge and how it is revealed External displays of emotional response Privacy Suggestions of abandonment o Being left could be the chosen state Seasonal metaphors of Spring
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Unpacking motifs -
Inside/outside Upstairs/downstairs Male/female Life/death Freedom/imprisonment Weakness/strength
March 11/2013
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Marriage/solitude Joy/suffering
