Before beginning the exam, please email your instructor for the password. To access the exam, go to Blackboard and click the Assignments folder. The midterm is worth a maximum of 100 points or 20 percent of your grade. This exam will test your knowledge of literary terms, MLA, grammar, punctuation, the Late 19th and Turn of the Century writers, and the works of the Early Modern and Lost Generation. Give your instructor 48 hours before checking your final grade by accessing the Tools folder. If the midterm is submitted more than two weeks late, you will only be able to earn a maximum of 50 points. Be Familiar with the Following Works:Click here for Analysis of Chopin's novel O. Henry (1862-1910): Gift of the Magi Click here for Analysis of O. Henry's work William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) :"The Great Figure"; "Spring and All" Click here for Analysis of "Spring and All" T. S. Eliot : "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"; "The Waste Land" Click here for Analysis of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" Ernest Hemingway: "Hills Like White Elephants" Click here for Analysis of "Hills Like White Elephants" Know
the Definitions of the Following
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masculine and feminine rhyme Internal rhyme assonance and consonance iambic pentameter tetrameter Foot, Meter Blank verse, Free verse spondee, trochaic prosody Quatrain Refrain Sonnet Ode, Lyric Speaker, Narrator Epic poem
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Prose Ballad Alliteration Stanza Onomatopoeia Incantation Narration, Narrative Protagonist Antagonist Plot Symbol Simile and Metaphor Irony Personification |