English Midterm Exam

• The Grave- How old is Miranda in the story?

  9
• The Grave- What object did Miranda find in the pit that was once a grave?

  Silver dove screw head
• The Grave- Which animal does Paul kill

  Rabbit
• The Grave- At the story's close, what triggers Miranda's memory of this childhood incident?

  A tray of dyed sugar sweets
• The Grave- What's Miranda's older sister's name?

  Maria
• The Grave- In what year is the story set?

  1903
• The Grave- How does Porter deploy temporal disjunction to structure her narrative and to what effect?

  [Own interpretation]
• Define canon


  Body of writings especially approved by critics or anthologists and deemed suitable for academic study
• Define literary critics/anthologists

  Cultural gatekeepers for the field of literary studies
• Define genre

  Recognizable and established category of written work employing such common conventions as will prevent readers from mistaking it for another kind
• Define haunting


  An animated state in which a repressed or unresolved social violence is making itself known, sometimes very directly, sometimes more obliquely
• Define ghost


  The whole essence of a ghost is that it has a real presence and demands its due, your attention. We are notified that what's been concealed is very much alive and present.
• Mahadeviyakka- Year and Origin


  12th century, India
• Define bahakti

  Devotional worship to one supreme deity
• Define vacana


  Prose poem, usually 6 to 12 lines long, with a rhythmic structure, not in sound but in semantics (meaning of a word, phrase, symbol)
• Define ankita

  Poetic signature
• Jikiniki- Author, Year, and Origin

  Lafcadio Hearn ,1904, Ireland (Ionian Island of Lekfada)
• Define mood

  Designates atmosphere of a work
• Define tone

  Speaker's/narrator's attitude toward the reader
• Define grotesque


  Exaggeration or distortion of a (human) body in a manner that elicits both empathy and disgust
• Define motif


  Reoccuring objects; word or symbol in a text that contributes to a works theme or themes
• Modernist Movement: Date Range

  1890-1945
• Miss Brill - Author, Year, and Origin

  Katherine Mansfield, 1920, New Zealand
• Define alienation


  Experiencing feelings of isolation and estrangement from one's respective community
• Define temporal disjunction


  Interruption in narrative (linear)
• Define 3rd person limited

  Access to the central character's thoughts but not all characters
• Define 3rd person objective

  Know what's happening but do not know character's thoughts
• Chika Sagawa- Year and Origin

  Early 20th century, Japan (Yoichi Hokkaido)
• Tyree Daye- Year and Origin

  2020, North Carolina (Youngstown)
• Time and Again- Author, Year, and Origin

  Breece D'J Pancake, 1983, West Virginia (Milton)
• Written on the Body- Author, Year, Origin


  Jeanette Winterson, 1992, England
• Citizen- Author, Year, and Origin


  Claudia Rankine, 2014, Jamaica->America
• The Grave- Author, Year, and Origin


  Katherine Anne Porter, 1944, Texas
• Snowball Jr.- Author, Year, and Origin

  Ashleigh Bryant Phillips, 2019, North Carolina (Woodland)
• Define realism


  A mode of writing that gives the impression of faithfully recording a way of life. 1952-1979
• Where She Planted Hydrangeas- The speaker's grandmother migrated from ___________________ to ___________________

  South Carolina; North Carolina
• Ode to Small Towns- Which phrase begins most lines?

  This where
• From Which I Flew- The speaker asks "How many ______________ does it take to lift a house?"

  Blackbirds
• Ode to Small Towns- What objects are placed at the roadside memorials?

  Pink wreaths and dirty teddy bears
• From Which I Flew- How do fields function as a motif?

  [Own interpretation]