Exam #3 – Midterm

Answer each prompt in a few clear, complete sentences. Use specific details and examples from the text(s) to support your points.

1. Identify either a specific simile or metaphor in Sharon Oldss 35/10 and explain how it contributes to the overall imagery/effect of the poem.
2. Consider Yusef Komunyakaas use of caesura in Facing It. Then pick a couple of examples and explain why you think he is using the internal line stops where he does, and what images he is trying to accentuate with his pauses.
3. Identify the climax in Mary Millers story Big Bad Love. Explain why you think the moment you picked is the point of highest tension in the story.
4. Identify and explain the settings (both physical and virtual) in Meginniss Navigators.
5. Is Billy Collinss poem Morning a true aubade? Why or why not?
6. Explain the stanza structure in either Robert Frosts The Road Not Taken or Brian Turners What Every Soldier Should Know.
7. Explain why the mother in The Rocking-Horse Winner is an anti-hero.
8. Explain one example of foreshadowing in Shirley Jacksons The Lottery.