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ENG 252: Essаy ExаmOn Wednesdаy, December 3, the essay exam is prоctоred with Hоnorlock on Blackboard from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. By 11 a.m., the exam should be submitted to Bb, but you can also email a copy to me. If you have scheduled the exam with an in-person proctor, then you have scheduled the exam in a two-hour appointment with the proctor during week sixteen. At the end of the exam, the proctor should email the exam to me. Part I. Identification: You are responsible for seven identification questions. Choose two terms and five quotes. Write a complete paragraph for each one you choose. For key terms, define the term and illustrate it with an example from a text we have read so far this semester. For quotes, identify the writer, the title of the work, and explain the significance. (35 points) Harlem RenaissanceModernismcoupletekphrasisLa Lloronaalliteration“HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME”“I really love fog…It hides you from the world and the world from you.”“…looking as if it were not that ocean in which/ dropped things are bound to sink—” “She—come to think of it, she was kind of like a bird herself—real sweet and pretty, but kind of timid and—fluttery.”“Droning a drowsy syncopated tune,”“There lay the snake in the basket!”“I had ten-inch blooms this year,”“The rug was electrified.”“Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars!”“The town is silent. The night boils with eleven stars.”“They played poker now, or variations, for one week straight, and each time Fleur won exactly one dollar, no more and no less, too consistent for luck.”“We think of lukewarm water, hope to get in it.”“The river is moving,/The blackbird must be flying.” “I’m not in His Kingdom.” Part II. Essay response: Choose ONE question. Write a clearly organized and thoughtfully argued essay that uses specific examples. Aim for an essay of five to six paragraphs. This should be a complete essay with an introduction, thesis, supporting paragraphs, and a conclusion. (65 points) Question 1. The poetry of Ginsberg, Sexton, and Plath mark a significant turning point in twentieth-century poetry. For many, their work can be said to mark the beginning of contemporary American poetry. The rise of Beat and Confessional Movements represents a path that diverges from the modernist aesthetic emphasizing the fragmentary, impersonal, and precise styles of T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, and Wallace Stevens. Poets such as Ginsberg, Sexton, and Plath infuse their post-war poetry with taboo subjects, personal confidences, and emotional responses to social life in the 1950s. Often using images packed with emotional and psychological significance, these poets protested the visions of social stability conferred in the Ozzie and Harriet accounts of American cultural life. Choose a poem by Ginsberg, Sexton, and Plath. Analyze how each poet uses both personal subject matter and poetic imagery to communicate a nonconformist position. How does each poet’s use of imagery resonate with an emotional and psychological significance unique to each poet’s deconstruction of prevailing social norms?Question 2. How does theme parallel structure in three modern poems? For this essay, choose three modern poems by three different modern poets. Provide an analysis of each poem that discusses the poet’s modern experiments with form as vital tools to convey meaning.Question 3. In “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain,” Langston Hughes discusses the importance of embracing the beauty of African American culture. For Hughes, it was of paramount importance that the African American artist not be “afraid to be himself” (873). In this seminal essay, Hughes identifies one of the primary obstacles facing the African American writer—the pressure to assimilate into a social world in which whiteness is held up as the ideal. He goes on to argue that African American cultural traditions offer the African American artist a model of individuality to counter “the mold of American standardization” (873). Hughes goes on to espouse the celebration of African American life and artistic traditions in literary form, including jazz, blues, as well as the common speech and everyday lives of African Americans. Choose three of Hughes’s poems on our syllabus. Write an essay that analyzes the way Hughes celebrates African American cultural traditions while speaking to the problems of racial inequality in America. How does each poem show that Hughes is not “afraid to be himself”?Question 4. Violence is a common theme in several of the literary works we have read. How does the representation of violence signal unresolved conflict over social inequality, personal crisis, or cultural division? Choose three texts by three different writers from our reading list. How does the writer depict violence as a manifestation of unresolved conflict—social, cultural, or psychological? Analyze the way each writer imagines violence, its relationship to the historical past, and its aftermath in the present. What are the specific techniques each writer uses to communicate their unique message? (Possibilities: Faulkner, Hurston, Ellison, Glaspell, Ginsberg, Erdrich, Cisneros, Hemingway…) Question 5. Several parallels exist between the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement, including the celebration of African American cultural heritage, African American pride, themes of social justice, the use of art as political speech, and the free expression of one’s identity and culture. How do writers like Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Gwendolyn Brooks demonstrate the promise of these literary movements in their writings?