Question I
Answer each question in three to five sentences. Make specific references to texts from the class.
These are the stories that we have read. (A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner; The Yellow Wallpaper by Charolotte Perkins Gilman; Harlem by Langston Hughes; The Open Boat by Stephen Crane; and Men without Women by Ernest Heminway)
i. Explain what hypotactic language is and how it has been used in one of the stories that we've read. What is the effect of reading language like this?
ii. What are some of the problems with local color writing?
iii. Give one example of the difference between realism and naturalism, and then use stories that we've read to demonstrate them.
iv. Give one example of and explain how music is an important influence in Harlem Renaissance writing.
v. Give an example of the infantilization of the narrator in "The Yellow Wallpaper" and explain why this is significant.
Question II
For each quote given below, give the author and text that it is from. You should then explain the quote's significance to the reading.
i. "There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down."
ii. "'Or does it explode?"
iii. "One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair."
iv. "He thought: 'I am going to drown? Can it be possible? Can it be possible? Can it be possible?'"
v. Would you please please please please please please please please stop talking?"