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A. Mid-length essays
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A2.
Mid-length essay on
1 or 2
terms or subjects:
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B. Long Essay Questions
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B1. Essay
Question 1.
the Gothic &
its various characteristics and uses
April Bucy, "The Gothic—Helping
the World get Haunted one House at a Time"
Tracie Estrada,
"The Gothic is the Perfect Accompaniment to a Well Written Story"
Velma Laborde,
"Meaning in
the Macabre"
Dorothy Noyes, "Spooky Selections: The Gothic in American
Renaissance Literature"
Shellie Saenz,
"Gothic Here, Gothic There,
Gothic, Gothic Everywhere!" (excerpts)
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B2.
Essay
question 2. Moral problems depicted vividly and
significantly but without simple, reductive moral judgment.
Velma Laborde,
Lincoln’s
Morality
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B3. Essay
question 3. How has American Renaissance literature developed your ideas of history, or history your
idea of literature?
Jennifer Lawrence, "A Discovery of the Past"
Angela Sims, "Finding Historical Truth through Fiction"
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B4. Essay
question 4.
classic, popular, and
representative authors and literature i
Joe Bernard, "Reading for Category?"
Tracie Estrada,
"An Equal Blend of Classic, Popular, and Representative Literature is the Key to
Unlocking Students' Learning"
Valerie Mead,
"ClassiReprePop Literature: Shades
of Grey in Categorizing Works from the American Renaissance"
Dorothy Noyes, "Blurring Boundaries: The Separation of
the Classical, Popular, and Representative"
Angela Sims, "The View from Over Here"
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B5. Essay
question 5.
Describe, compare, and contrast poems by Whitman and
Dickinson
April Bucy,
"The Lyric and the Catalog: A Parable of Poetry"
Andy Feith, "Emily Dickinson and the Good Grey Poet"
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