LITR 4232 American Renaissance
2013 final exam—Index to Sample Answers
 (final exam assignment)

A. Mid-length essays

A1. Review & prioritize your learning in American Renaissance.

Britini Pond, The Teachings of American Renaissance Literature

Stephanie Starkey, The Term “American Renaissance” Means So Much

Mickey Thames, America The Romantic—How the Romantic Shaped American Life

 

OR describe your learning about Romanticism as a term or concept . . .

Jenna Crosson, Expanding My Views on Romanticism

 

Sarah Gonzalez, The Depth of Romanticism

Baisha Kreuzer, American Renaissance at its Finest

Briana Perry, Goth is the Old Black

A2. Mid-length essay on 1 or 2 terms or subjects: 

Civil Disobedience / Passive Resistance

Kayla Davis, Civil Disobedience: Romanticism in Action

Gabriel Lopez, Civil Disobedience in the American Renaissance

B. Lo-o-o-ong Essay Questions

B1. Variations on the Gothic.

Jenna Crosson, There is Gothic in Everything We Read

B2. Literature & Morality.

Mickey Thames, Thoreau and Lincoln—A Time to Sit, and A Time to Fight

 

B3. Literature and History.

Britini Pond, A Window into our Past

 

 

B4. Classic, Popular, & Representative Literature.

Jenna Crosson, Classic, Popular, Representative: Not Cookie Cutters

Sarah Gonzalez, The Recipe for a Healthy Mind: A Combination
of Classic, Popular and Representative Literature

 

B5. Poe, Whitman, Dickinson Poetic Styles.

Stephanie Starkey, Informal to Formal and in-Between: Poe, Whitman, Dickinson

 
B6. Romanticism & Realism.

Kayla Davis, The Realities of Romanticism

Josh Mills, Walt Whitman & the American Psyche:  an Iconoclast of Thought and Expression

Anahi Montemayor, The Romantics Get Real

Briana Perry, Elevated Romanticism, Blunt Realism

 

Mickey Thames, Romantic Sentiments in a Realistic World