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EWRT1C Midterm Review
DeAnza College
Instructor Hearn
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EWRT1C – Literature and Composition
Midterm review
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IDENTIFICATION (3 pts. each - 30 pts. total)
Select 10 of the following I.D.s and in 3-4 sentences each discuss their significance. Follow the directions below.
- For literary or theoretical terms: define the term and provide an example that illustrates the significance of the term.
- For characters, places, etc.: identify the text in which it appears and explain its significance within that text.
* “A man in black with a Meinkampf look
And a love of the rack and the screw.”
* “Achoo”
* “And I said I do, I do.”
* apple in his back
* Arthur Holmwood
* “black shoe”
* blood transfusions
* “bloofer lady”
* Brian
* caesura
* consumption
* creeping woman in the wallpaper
* cryonics
* “Daddy’s boy”
* diction
* Dr. Seward
* eidetic memory
* Elizabeth
* “Elly”
* enjambment
* “Every woman adores a Fascist”
* flat vs. round character
* Fortunato
* frame narrative
* goblin men
* golden lock
* Grete
* Henry Clerval
* “Ich, ich, ich, ich”
* imagery
* “In pace requiescat!”
* “It gets into my hair.”
* Jack Palance
* Jane
* Jennie
* John
* journal writing
* Juliana/Sofia
* Justine
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* Karloff’s monster
* Laura and Lizzie
* Lucy
* metonymy
* Mina Murray
* Montresor
* “my hideous progeny”
* “of course, but one expects that.”
* office manager
* photograph of Gregor in a lieutenant’s uniform
* pleasure delayer
* “Presentable, eminently presentable—
shall I make you a present of him?”
* prosthetic mask
* Quincy
* removing furniture
* Renfield
* scar from wafer
* silver penny
* story vs. discourse
* synecdoche
* the blind man in the cottage
* the Conservatory
* the creature
* the grandmother
* The Misfit
* the seven dwarves
* the sublime
* “that smile will be the end of me”
* “their daughter got up first and stretched her young body.”
* “There is still murder in your heart”
* Three boarders
* three proposals in one day
* “to die”
* Un-Dead
* Van Helsing
* violin playing
* Walton
* woman with a fur muff
* wooden stake
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CLOSE READING (10 pts. each - 20 pts. total)
Select two of the following passages. For each passage
- identify three details you found interesting in each passage.
- Briefly discuss (in 2-3 sentences for each detail) how those details are important to larger themes in the text. Note: the themes do not have to be related to each other.
ESSAY (50 pts.)
Using exactly three texts from the course (novels, short stories, poetry, or film), answer one of the following questions in a unified essay. Avoid a merely general discussion of the topic; instead, use details from the texts, providing quotations or allusions to specific passages in the texts. Make sure you address all three texts.
- doubling
- narrative point of view and its effect on the text
- endings of texts
- quest for knowledge
- gender roles
- desire
- madness/reality
- role of memory
- capitalism
- monstrosity
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