1. Explain why some author or poet is your favorite so far. Ten points possible.
2. Explain why it is important to write a research essay mostly in your own words. Ten points possible.
3. Explain why it is unusual for a poet (such as John Keats) to achieve greatness by the age of twenty-three. Ten points possible.
4. William Wordsworth defined poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling”
which “takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.” How would you define “poetry”? Ten points possible.
5. Please indicate how literary works should be identified in a research essay. Write “I” for italics, and write “Q” for quotation marks. Two points each.
_____novel
_____short story
_____poem not of “epic” length
_____book of literary criticism
_____journal article containing literary criticism
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