Part Three:  Short essays (20 points each; 60 points total) Please respond to ONE of the following prompts.  The response should be at least 250-350 words Each response should be in complete sentences.  Group A: Please define Modernism and list at least two of its traits. Using one of the texts assigned, show how the text illustrates the traits listed. The poetry of the Modernist period is highly experimental. Using two different poems, show how this experimentalism is effective in communicating meaning and / or feeling. What are the characteristics of Naturalism?  Please define naturalism and use at least two different texts as examples to support your answer.

This “Roman” lived in the sixth century AD and was imprisoned by Theodoric.  While in prison, he wrote a famous text in which he comforts himself by discussing fortune with Lady Philosophy.  Who is the author of The Consolation of Philosophy?

Two of the short stories we read were published in vastly different versions by their writers — one in a longer newspaper account within days of the incident it describes and the other in a magazine for youth six years before the better-known version.  Name either short story.

Please respond to ONE of the following prompts.  The response should be at least 250-350 words Each response should be in complete sentences.  Group B: Zora Neale Hurston’s text sounds a bit like a fairy tale. Using examples from the short story, please prove this statement true. Robert Frost wrote the type of poetry that the other Modernists thought was impossible to write anymore. How does Frost’s poetry differ from other Modernist poetry?  Compare at least two other Modernist poets to Frost. What features do the regional poets we read share? Formulate at least two features and show how two different regional poets exhibit these features.

Who was the first emperor of Rome?

In the E.A. Robinson poem, which character “went home and put a bullet through his head”?

What Roman physician who lived in Pergamum made such a mark on medicine with his theories, like that of the “four humors,” that his errors were accepted as fact for generations?

Preferred stock is cumulative. Annual dividends are $4 per share, and no dividends were declared last year. How much must be paid before common stock receives dividends this year for each preferred share?

This early Christian symbol consists of the first two letters of “Christ” in Greek.  To English-speakers, it looks like an “X” superimposed on a “P.”  What is it?

A corporation issues 1,000 shares of $5 par common stock for $12 per share. What is the correct journal entry?