Category: American literature

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*Each question response needs to be about 10 sentences*
Mark Twain
2. Would you consider Mark Twain an experimental writer? How are his
stories different from other authors of his time period?
Kate Chopin
3. In “The Storm,” what does the title suggest in terms of figurative meaning?
4. In “The Storm,” is it reasonable to accept that at the end “everyone was
happy”? Or are consequences possible—or inevitable—beyond the ending
of the story
Stephen Crane
5. In “The Open Boat,” what does the correspondent mean when he wants to
throw bricks at the temple and discovers there are no bricks and no temples?
*book is “Writing the Nation: A Concise Introduction to
American Literature 1865 to Present”

Essay that illustrates how lit relflects culture and society identifies areas of literary technique methods or ideas 

Using the function and format of a business letter, write a letter to a company either thanking them for a service or product or asking for information about a service or product. You can invent the person’s name who will receive the letter, and you are not expected to actually mail it. Make sure your letter has all of these parts:
• heading
• inside address
• greeting
• body
• closing
• signature

How do the poems of Anne Bradstreet and that of Phillis Wheatley each reflect inner conflict? Define the respective conflicts of each author, explore the similarities of each conflict, and show how the conflicts are (or are not) resolved. Make sure you make specific reference to poems by Bradstreet and Wheatley that are included in the course.
Your response should be in the form of a typical essay, with a short introduction and thesis statement, supporting paragraphs that include direct textual evidence and analysis, and a conclusion.
Your paper should follow MLA formatting and style conventions (current edition).
cite information from this link and outside source can be used with proper citation
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/phillis-wheatley

Create a PowerPoint presentation on Bury Me In Free Land by Harper with at least 8 slides On one of the slides, have a multiple choice quiz of at least 8 questions with the correct answers provided. 
Summarize and analyze the text
Define and explain the THEME of the text/story and give examples.  Use situations and quotations from the text as evidence. Explain how this theme is relevant to the conflict, the text overall, or a certain character. Give citation using page numbers. Tell us why this THEME is important and what the lesson learned is, how it might be a warning to us in current times, what lesson the author is trying to convey, or what it can reveal about the world/society around us
The Author’s Life: Research more of the author’s life, listing strengths, weaknesses,  writing career, marriage, children, death, ect…  You can use other sources from Google.

Answer in 2-3 paragraphs.
In a previous lesson, we learned how to write a literary response. In this activity, you will practice writing a literary response. Choose any story or poem you have read recently. You should be able to locate a copy of the work to quote specific details. It may be something you chose to read on your own. Try to include all of these elements in your response:
• An overall reaction to a poem, story, essay, or other work of literature
• References to or passages from works that support the writer’s main points
• Personal and literary allusions quotations, and other examples that support the writer’s opinions
• An effective and logical organization
• A conclusion or evaluation that sums up the writer’s response to the work

After reading Sylvia Plath’s novel The Bell Jar, pages 1-50 (Ch. 1-4), answer one of the following questions, analyzing at least one quotation from the novel to support your response to each question. Analyze the quotation or quotations you select to support your argument.
Your response will be at least 250 words and take the shape of the “sandwich paragraph” 
Answer ONE of the following questions:
Some readers see the idea of a bell jar as a clarifying lens in Sylvia Plath’s novel, depicting the world accurately. Others see it as a distorting one, depicting the world unrealistically. Is it clarifying, distorting, or both? Analyze at least one quotation from the novel to support your point.
An early reader of The Bell Jar felt that Plath only referred to the Rosenberg Trial to tell readers when the story took place. Why do you think Plath began the novel in this way and what does doing so accomplish?
While some might object to including women’s accessories in a novel, such as purses and patent leather shoes, calling them frivolous, I think that Plath’s inclusion of them accomplishes ______________. Analyze one quotation to support your point, addressing the quotation’s relationship to the story as a whole.
Plath’s New York is filled with technology and transportation, from the electric chair to taxi cabs. What is one moment in which her depiction combines humanity and machinery and how does it do so? Analyze a quotation to support your point.
What role does humor have in the novel thus far? Analyze at least one quotation and address what it teaches us that we did not expect.
Remember to cite all sources you consult and add a list of works cited that includes the edition of the novel that you quote from. You must use your own words, cite, and quote appropriately. If you are using an e-book, you can cite chapters rather than page numbers in parentheses.
Please let me know if you have any questions!

Sylvia Plath was a visual artist and a writer. A selection of her drawings were sold and made available online. In your third discussion posting, you will pair one of Plath’s drawings with one quotation from chapters 5-8, asserting an argument regarding what the similarities or differences teach us about the novel. As you analyze the drawing and the passage from the novel together, take into account the visual elements that make the drawing a drawing and the written elements that make the novel a novel. Include a screenshot of your image with your posting.  
Your response will be at least 250 words and take the shape of the “sandwich paragraph” 
Remember to cite all sources you consult and add a list of works cited that includes the edition of the novel that you quote from. You must use your own words, cite, and quote appropriately. If you are using an e-book, you can cite chapters rather than page numbers in parentheses.
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For further information regarding Plath’s artwork, see Kathleen Connors and Sally Bayley, eds. Eye Rhymes: Sylvia Plath’s Art of the Visual (Oxford UP, 2007). You can hover over the cover to “look inside” on Amazon.
Please let me know if you have any questions!

Length: 750 words.             
We began the term with Zadie Smith’s essay, “Generation Why?” (2010) and E. M. Forster’s story “The Machine Stops” (1909). Both writers depict different versions of the present and future, envisioning how aspects of communication, family, and education may change. By contrast, Sylvia Plath’s novel The Bell Jar critiques the world of midcentury Manhattan, from its use of the death penalty, to its limited roles for women. Your task in this essay is to pair either Smith’s essay or Forster’s story with Plath’s novel, asserting an argument about the worlds they address. What futures does each narrative suggest is possible? How does each suggest that the present can change?
750 words is not long (approximately three pages), so you will need to select a narrow focus that you can examine in depth. You are also welcome to analyze Plath’s poems, letters, journals, or interpretations of her work, but make sure you cite them. As you begin to draft your essay, you can build from your blog postings, addressing places or ideas in greater depth, but make sure your essay reads fluidly.
You must demonstrate appropriate use of quotations and cite all sources you consult, including webpages. Use parenthetical citations to acknowledge when you are quoting or citing others’ ideas. 
Your essay must be typed, double-spaced, in twelve-point, and Times New Roman font.
Developing Your Argument
Select quotations and an image to analyze. You only need to quote when the language of the quotation matters to your argument. Otherwise, you can put a quotation in your own words.
As you return to the text, formulate an argument by asking what links the evidence you selected. Ask yourself how they differ from each other and other moments. These questions will allow you to answer why each instance is significant to the novel.
Consider the form and style of the examples you select. Analyze the word choice and tone. Where in the novel do the instances that you note take place? Why is this significant? 
Be creative and take intellectual risks. Show readers of your essay what you want them to see. Remember that each reader interprets a text differently.
Essay Structure
As you plan your essay, consider analyzing two to three quotations or examples per paragraph. If quotations are more than four lines in length they need to be indented as a block quotation. Be selective and only quote the words, phrases, or lines necessary to your argument. In addition, fully analyze the quotations you have selected. Sometimes, you might deal with only one quotation or example in a paragraph if it demands that much explication.
Your introductory paragraph should introduce your claim and why it is significant. Remember that your introduction can change until the last minute and often it is a good technique to make your conclusion your introduction.
Each topic sentence should assert the argument of the body paragraph it begins. Your analysis in each paragraph should support the topic sentence. The topic sentence of each paragraph should support your claim in the introduction.
The conclusion of your essay does not need to repeat what you have already said. In light of what you have argued, make a connection to a larger context and suggest ideas for further research.  
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