Quote Responses

On days indicated on the calendar, you will submit a quote response on an assigned work. I say "submit," but because you will be writing these assignments in Google Drive, I will be able to see your work on them even before the due date. So the deadline is actually when you should be finished so that I can evaluate your writing.

The goal is to think about a work we are reading and write short paragraph responses to three different quotations. The exercise, therefore, has three sections. To earn credit for the assignment, please follow the requirements and guidelines. If the quote response is optional, you will not be penalized for not doing it; however, a higher grade on an optional Quote Response can replace a lower grade on a required one. However, optional quote responses cannot replace zeros on required quote responses.

Reading Notes

For this course, instead of quizzes, I require note-taking on the reading assignments so that you can demonstrate that you have done thorough reading of each work. Also, they will help you remember more of what you read, making you more confident during class discussions. When you come to class, please bring with you a substantial set of hand-written notes on standard notebook paper about the reading assignment on the calendar for that day.

Literary Terms

Poetry

speaker persona free verse meter

caesura enjambment rhyme diction

alliteration negative capability objective correlative impersonal theory of poetry

Fiction

narrator narrative story plot setting ellipsis

flashback flashforward character point of view free indirect discourse Iceberg Principle

parable allegory epiphany catharsis climax

General

dramatic irony situational irony verbal irony ethical significance representation ambiguity

juxtaposition style image symbol metaphor motif

hyperbole allusion historical sense "make it new"

Literary Movements

Romanticism Realism Impressionism

Naturalism Modernism

Post-Modernism Minimalism

Assignments

• Reading Notes
• Quote Responses