Twentieth Century Literature: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach ILS 2010 Final Exam Please submit your responses to each section in an MLA formatted paper, though you do not need a Works Cited page. Content page is needed. Please mark each section clearly. It is imperative that you submit a well-written final exam. I am looking for your original thought and analysis. You are not allowed to paraphrase from or cite secondary sources. I. During this term you have read and analyzed a significant amount of literature and discussed how this literature connects to and reflects society. For the first section of your final exam, please discuss how you have learned/grown in regards to how you view society at large, by critically analyzing the literature from this term. For example, you can discuss how your views have been further defined, aspects of life and/or others’ lives never before considered, aspects of history that you learned more about … amongst other topics. Please discuss four different pieces of literature from this term, when answering this question. You can paraphrase the texts, though you must also directly quote the each text to support your points. This should be a minimum of six paragraphsintroduction (1), discussion of four sources (4), conclusion (1). II. Please write a paragraph (4 sentences minimum) for each prompt below and quote each source at least once. a. Which piece of literature did you find most challenging to red and analyze and why? b. Which piece of literature did you appreciate most and why? III. Listed below are all of the literary terms which connect to the works that we studied this term, reflecting quite a breadth of literary analysis. Please chose two terms from the list below and in a minimum of two paragraphs, write about how they create a lens for analyzing literature. You can write about the terms collectively or separately. Please refer to at least one piece of literature when discussing each term, though you do not need to directly quote the work. alliteration, character, characterization, connotation, deconstructionism, free verse, Industrial Revolution, industrialization, irony, metaphor, open form, paradox, personification, simile, symbol, framed narrative, narrator, point of view, travel narrative, postcolonial criticism, postcolonialism, racism, historical criticism, new historicism, realism, allusion, ennui, expressionism, free association, Freudian criticism, modernism, Oedipus Complex, psychological criticism, communist, Marxism, Marxist criticism, sociological criticism, biographical criticism, feminism, feminist criticism, gender criticism, biographical criticism, feminism, feminist criticism, gender criticism, stream of consciousness, postmodernism Here are the links that we read for the term. If some of them were not working, please google. White Man's Burden Open Letter to King Leopold on the Congo 1890 "Theme for English B" by Langston Hughes "Song in the Front Yard" - Gwendolyn Brooks "King Leopold's Soliloquy" - Mark Twain "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou W.B. Yeats “Easter 1916” (p. 303) Yosano Akiko: I Beg You Brother: Do Not Die! (p. 386) Rupert Brooke: “The Soldier” (p. 388) Wilfred Owen: "Dulce et Decorum Est" (p.390) Glossary Terms: racism, historical criticism, new historicism, realism T.S. Eliot: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p. 221-4 W.B. Yeats: “The Second Coming” p. 306 Constantine Kavafy: "Days of 1908" p. 238 W.H. Auden “September 1, 1939” Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener” (links) http://ic.galegroup.com.jwupvdz.idm.oclc.org/ic/bic1/BiographiesDetailsPage/BiographiesD etailsWindow?disableHighlighting=&displayGroupName=Biographies&source=DirectLinking &prodId=&mode=view&jsid=dc773bd42c80f7ce33a9e8c382ad5e44&limiter=&displayquery=&contentModules=&action=e&sortBy=&windowstate=normal&currPage=&dviSelect edPage=&scanId=&query=&search_within_results=&p=BIC1&catId=&u=prov43712&display Groups=&documentId=GALE%7CK1631003489&activityType=&failOverType=&commentary = The Metamorphosis (pp. 253- 284) E.A. Robinson’s “Richard Cory” (link) W.B. Yeats “Among Schoolchildren” (link) Whitman’s “I Hear America Singing” (link) Levine’s “What Work Is” (link) Emily Dickinson - biographical information (link) Read and/or listen to 4 of Emily Dickinson's poems, including "I heard a Fly buzz - when I die". - poems (link) Sylvia Plath - biographical information (link) - "Three Women" (link to read) - "Three Women" (link to hear) Virginia Woolf - biographical information (pp. 172 - 4) Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf at the Gutenberg Project site Lorca’s “Ode to Walt Whitman” (link) Allen Ginsberg’s “A Supermarket in California” (link) Naomi Shihab Nye “The Orange, The fig and The Whisper of Grapes” (link) Frank Bidart "Queer" (link) Richard Blanco "America" (link) Kari Edwards "[can I do this spiritual drag]" (link)