Generаl Cоntent Knоwledge аnd Understаnding (Chоose 2 out the 4 options) Choose Two of the following question/prompts and answer Answer with a well-developed paragraph (WELL DEVELOPED!!) making specific references to the text. Be sure to write the question number next to your answer. This class has looked at various genres from essays to poetry to novellas to drama. One genre we looked at (after midterm) was autobiography/memoir when we looked at Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, the Africa. Describe specific elements of autobiography/memoir and give specific examples from Equiano's source that illustrate those features. Define and explain the adjective "Kafkaesque." Who is it named after? What source did we read that showed some Kafkaesque elements and then apply and explain the word to modernity. Up to this point in Modernity (1900s forward) & Realism, we have seen pretty depressing events. From divorce (a woman literally leaves her husband & kids in A Doll's House), families being torn apart or being at odds (see "Barn Burning")(see "Everyday Use"), to mental breakdowns (Gregor Samsa and Richard Cory), to one of the worst acts of genocide (the Holocaust) known to mankind, choose one work we have covered and discuss the Realistic nature of the text (why is it realism? language? situation? dialogue? problem? and explain why you think the author chose to write about something so depressing. Be specific. Use specific examples. Name the author and work and characters and situation. Choose either the short story "Barn Burning" by William Faulkner or "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker and summarize the complex family dynamic the the author illustrates, name the major characters involved, and explain how the short story is used to force readers to relate to a character that has to make a decision that upsets the family dynamic. Quotation Analysis (Choose 1 out the 2 options) Choose One: Answer with a well-developed paragraph making specific references to the text. Be sure to write the question number next to your answer. Observe the following quotation: "And yet his sister's playing was so lovely. Her face was tilted to one side; searchingly, sadly, her eyes followed the lines of the notes. Gregor crept a bit farther forward and ducked his head down close to the floor so as perhaps to catch her eye. Was he a beast, that music so moved him? He felt as if he were being shown the way to that unknown nourishment that he craved." Identify the source that it came from, who wrote it, the characters involved in the scene, and finally what does it mean? Observe the following quotation: Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die. From what source (title and author) is this quotation from? What was the context? and What does it mean?
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