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:
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
- Research Methods -- finding, evaluating and using sources
- 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