Select FOUR terms from the following list. For each, provide a quotation from an assigned text from this section of the course that connects to this term in some way. You can either include the whole quotation or just the first and last words; regardless, give the page number. Then write a brief (2-3 sentence) explanation of how the quotation relates to the term and to our class. Each answer is worth up to 5 points. note You cannot use the passages that are listed in Part II.
Transcendentalism
Cult of True Womanhood
Romanticism
Slant Rhyme
Free Verse
First Wave of Women’s Rights
II. Close Reading (15 points each; 30 points possible)
Select TWO of five passages, commenting on the significance of each to the text that it's from and to the course itself. Be sure to address specific literary details about this passage. You don't need to include the entire quotation in each answer, but please indicate to which one you're responding. Each answer should be approximately one paragraph and will be worth up to 15 points.
1)”The prostitute draggles her shawl, her bonnet bobs on her tipsy and pimpled neck,
The crowd laugh at her blackguard oaths, the men jeer and wink to each other,
(Miserable! I do not laugh at your oaths nor jeer you,)
The President holds a cabinet council, he is surrounded by the great secretaries”
-Whitman, “Song of Myself,” lines 302-305
2) “Poor little innocent fool! she imagines that’s the way to preserve his affection. Preserve a
fiddlestick!”
-Fern, “Hints to Young Wives” (2464)
3) “Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear. In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth. . . Standing on the bare ground, --my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infant