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Juniors ~ Final Exam

Your final will include material covered second semester. The exam will consist of 100 questions, with NO writing portion. You've done enough writing for now. I expect the questions to be multiple choice only, but I may include matching, as well.

You'll need to review the following:

  • Romanticism and Transcendentalism (340-42)
    • Longfellow
    • Emerson & Thoreau
      • "Self-Reliance" (Emerson)
      • "Civil Disobedience" (Thoreau)
      • "Walden" (Thoreau)
    • Walt Whitman
      • "I Sit and Look Out"
      • "Song of Myself"
      • "O Captain, My Captain"
  • The Dark Side of Individualism (446-48)
    • Edgar Allan Poe (450-53)
      • American Gothic
      • "The Fall of the House of Usher"
    • Emily Dickinson (746-48)
      • poems on pages 751-59
  • Realism/Regionalism
    • "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass"
    • "Coming of Age in Mississippi"
  • Mark Twain
    • Biographical info (654-57)
    • "Autobiography of Mark Twain"
    • "Life of the Mississippi"
    • "The Notorious Jumping Frog..."
    • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
      • characters, setting & plot
    • criteria for evaluating sources
    • scholarly vs. popular journals
    • search engines vs. databases
    • parenthetical vs. bibliographic citations
    • annotated bib vs. works cited page
    • signal phrases/attribution

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