Take Home American Lit Exam 1

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Responses must be written in complete sentences in a substantial well developed paragraph(s); one substantial paragraph is the minimum requirement. You must provide specific examples from the text to support your answers. Answers must reflect a close reading of both my lectures and the texts. Do not incorporate any outside source material in your responses and do not use quotations with the exception of a few partial quotes from the poems. Keep in mind that Turnitin will detect outside source material.

**Use black ink, standard font for your responses.

Submit your paper in the Turnitin link by 11:59 PM on Monday, February 3.

1.Define the international theme and describe how this theme is operative in Henry James ”Daisy Miller” and Edith Wharton’s “Souls Belated.”

2. Define kinesthetic imagery and discuss how this imagery is used to characterize Daisy.

3.*Could Winterbourne have done more to protect Daisy from social criticism/ scrutiny? Explain why or why not with specific examples.

4. In “Daisy Miller,” analyze the coliseum scene. When we think about the history of the coliseum itself how is this symbolic of Daisy’s position in this society?

5.* In “Souls Belated,” how and why does Mrs. Linton attempt to emotionally blackmail Lydia?

6. Compare and contrast Winterbourne from “Daisy Miller” and Gannet from “Souls Belated.”

7. Analyze the denouement (conclusion) of “Souls Belated.” What choice do you think Lydia has made and how will it affect character transformation?

8.Define symbol and analyze the most important symbols in the following poems by Emily Dickinson:

“I Heard a Fly Buzz—when I died—“ / “My Life had stood– A loaded gun”

9.Define imagery and discuss how imagery is central to Walt Whitman’s “The Wound Dresser,” providing examples from the poem.

10.Explain the occasion for Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” and discuss the most important symbols in the poem.