ENGL 1302 Midterm Exam 2020

The most popular theme that Emily Dickinson wrote about was

Conclusions can do all the following except

When using a quote, do all the following except

The initial thesis statement is written

Except for a summary, writing about literature is a form of

“Upon Julia’s Clothes, by Robert Herrick, uses voyeurism, which means

One of the best ways to gather supporting ideas for a paper is

In MLA 8, titles of books, plays, and periodicals (magazines and newspapers) use

One of the themes of “My Last Duchess” is

     The thesis statement

When a writer summarizes continuous text that spans two pages

Robert Herrick and Ben Jonson share a connection

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was famous for

When a writer summarizes text and uses commentary before adding more summary,

In MLA 8, the vital information in the upper left hand corner of the paper and the title go

For quotes of four or more lines of poetry, the writer

In Trifles, by Susan Glaspell, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale 

In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufock,” Prufock

What happens first?

In “After Death,” by Christina Rossetti, and “On My First Son,” by Ben Jonson differ

How many times are thesis statements revised for perfection?

In “Because I could not stop for Death,” the tone changes to disappointment when

Floating quotations should

Which phase comes last?

In Shakespeare's “Sonnet 73," “That on the ashes of his youth does lie/As the deathbed whereon it must expire," (19-20)

In “Because I could not stop for Death,” by Emily Dickinson, Death is portrayed as

In “Upon Julia’s Clothes,” by Robert Herrick, the tone is all except

Introductions should contain

In MLA 8, Poem, short story, journal article, and essay titles use

When providing analysis of a quote, paraphrase, or summary, the analysis goes

In “Sonnet 73,” by William Shakespeare, “To love that well which thou must leave ere long,” (13), who must leave?

Ben Jonson’s poems about his children’s are the most interesting poems ever written.

1.     One of the reasons Emily Dickinson did not publish a lot of her poetry during her life time was because 

The hidden meaning

In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

When integrating quotations into text, the writer

Floating quotations are

In “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona,” by Sherman Alexie, the rabbit committed suicide because

The introduction should do all except

Critical reading implies

Everything in the essay should

An in-text citation goes

The thesis statement contains

The speaker in “The Last Duchess,” by Robert Browning, has his spouse killed.

When analyzing a literary work, compare the literary work with

Gather support for the thesis by using the following, except