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Final Review

Research Process

  • MLA Format – what it is and how it looks
  • Using the subscription databases (i.e. EBSCO, JSTOR)
  • Evaluating sources (the two “R”s – Relevance and Reliability)
  • Using sources (the two “I”s – Introduce and Integrate)
  • Parenthetical Citation (know the punctuation)
  • Block quotes
  • Works Cited entries (expect at least to know the form for an article from a subscription database)

Romantic Period

  • Introduction to the period (620-638)
  • Gothic Literature & Frankenstein (study guide)
  • Women writers of the period (726-728)
  • Robert Burns: “To A Mouse”
  • William Blake: "The Lamb" & "The Tyger" & "The Chimney Sweeper" (two versions)
  • William Wordsworth: "Tintern Abbey," “Westminster Bridge”
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge: "Kubla Khan" & "Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
  • Lord Byron: "She Walks in Beauty" (also Byronic Hero)
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley: "Ozymandias"
  • John Keats: "Ode On a Grecian Urn"

Victorian Period

  • Introduction to the period (780-800) including Colonialism
  • Victorian novels and novelists
  • Alfred, Lord Tennyson: “The Eagle,” “Flower in the Crannied Wall,” “In Memorium A.H.H”
  • Robert Browning: “My Last Duchess”
  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning: “Sonnet 43”
  • Rudyard Kipling: “The Mark of the Beast”
  • Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness (study questions)
  • A.E. Housman: “To An Athlete Dying Young”

Modern Period

  • Introduction to the period (908-922)
  • William Butler Yeats: “The Second Coming”
  • Wilfred Owen: “Dulce et Decorum Est”
  • Elizabeth Bowen: “The Demon Lover” (1019)
  • Nadine Gordimer: “Once Upon A Time” (1155)

Don’t forget about literary terms learned throughout the semester, as well.

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