writing help for finals
all directions are listed, I do not care which prompt you choose but please follow directions. You do not have to do put it in MLA or anytype of format.
Part one: Select one of the following prompts, and respond in a paragraph. Be sure to write in complete sentences and provide examples from the text. Your response must completely address the prompt in order to receive full points.
Prompt A: What inferences can you make about the background and personality of Samuel Pepys based on his diary entry about the Great Fire of London?
Prompt B: What techniques does Pope use to weave humor into the poem “The Rape of the Lock”? Explain why the techniques are humorous.
Prompt C: Based on what you know about Swift and the internal evidence in “A Modest Proposal”, how can you tell that the “proposal” in the essay is, in fact, the opposite of what the words themselves suggest?
part two ; Select one of the following prompts, and respond in a paragraph. Be sure to write in complete sentences. Your response must completely address the prompt in order to receive full points.
Prompt A: In Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”, the speaker wonders about the potential accomplishments of those buried in the churchyard. What does the speaker imagine for these men? Discuss these possible achievements using supporting details from the text.
Prompt B: In Pope’s Essay on Man, how does the speaker cast humankind’s relationship to both God and His creation? Support your answer with examples from the text.
Prompt C: In which of Alexander Pope’s works does he twist the conventions of the epic poem to create a satirical tone? Support your answer with examples from that text.
part three ;Select one of the following prompts, and respond in a well-organized 3–5 paragraph essay. Be sure to write in complete sentences. Your response must completely address the prompt in order to receive full points.
Prompt A: Compare the purpose and characteristics of satire in Pope’s The Rape of the Lock and Swift’s A Modest Proposal. Which do you consider more effective, and why? How do these satires compare to popular satires of today? (16 points)
Prompt B: The Enlightenment preached the dominion of reason over irrationality. Which of the selections from this unit do you think most exemplified the ideals of the Enlightenment, and why? (16 points)
Prompt C: Based on what you know about Enlightenment ideals and the characteristics of pre-Romantic poetry, write a dialogue between two imaginary poets, one representing the Enlightenment and the other the pre-Romantic movement, about the purpose of literature. (16 points)
