The statements below are steps on “How to Read and Understand an Expository Essay”. Which comes in as an initial thing to do before writing an expository essay ?

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1. The statements below are steps on “How to Read and Understand an Expository Essay”. Which comes in as an initial thing to do before writing an expository essay ?

   A. Identify the Mode of Development
   B. Analysis of the Author
   C. Subsequent Readings/Reviews
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

2. The statements below are parts of the steps on “How to Write an Analytical Essay about Short Fiction”. Which comes in as the last thing to do in the writing an essay about short fiction ?

   A. Begin your paper with an introduction that identifies the purpose of the paper and the text you are addressing.
   B. Compose topic sentences (four or five, perhaps) that support, explore, demonstrate, or illustrate your thesis.
   C. Select specific passages in the text of the story that help you to develop each topic sentence.
   D. Build your paper to a climax; save your most engaging or important topic sentence for discussion last.

3. The statements below are parts of the steps on “How to Analyze a Play”. Which comes in as second thing to do before writing a critical essay of a play ?

   A. Identify External Factors Related to the Work
   B. Interpret the Play
   C. Analyze the Staging
   D. Analyze the Essential Elements of the Play

4. The statements below are parts of the steps on “How to Explicate Poetry”. Which comes in as second to the last thing to do before writing a critical essay of a poem ?

   A. Interpret the Poem.
   B. Introduce External Support.
   C. Analyze the Elements of the Poem
   D. Evaluate the Poem.

5. The statements below are steps on “How to Read a Short Story Critically”. Which comes in as the last thing to do in the critical reading of a narrative ?

   A. Analyze the Structure of the Story
   B. Analyze Rhetorical Elements
   C. Analyze the Meaning of the Story (Interpretation)
   D. Analyze the Essential Elements of the Story

6. According to Langston Hughes’s essay “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (his answer to George Schuyler’s essay “Negro Art Hokum”), what is the “mountain” that stands in the way of “any true Negro art in America” ?

   A. It is the racial discrimination endemic in the white community.
   B. It is the racial segregation in the South.
   C. It is a widespread “urge toward whiteness” among African Americans.
   D. It is a widespread “urge to incorporate and neutralize other cultures” among white Americans.

7. “Flâneur,” according to Dr. Heather Marcelle Crickenberger in her essay “The Flâneur,” is a term the French understand to mean which of the following ?

   A. Stroller, idler, walker
   B. An inhabitant of a rural village
   C. A religious believer
   D. Both A and B

8. This quote comes from what writing: “God holds you over the pit of Hell much as one holds a spider over the fire________________”?

   A. Spiders of the World
   B. Hands of Satan
   C. Hell and Salem
   D. Sinners in the Hand…

9. Which of the following statements best represents Lacan’s view of Ophelia in his essay, “Desire and the Interpretation of Desire in ’Hamlet’” ?

   A. Hamlet desires his mother, not Ophelia.
   B. Hamlet desires revenge, not Ophelia.
   C. Hamlet desires Ophelia, but only when she is unattainable.
   D. Hamlet desires attaining the throne of Denmark, of which Ophelia is a symbol.

10. Which of the following statements best summarizes the main idea behind Anthony DiMatteo’s essay, “Shakespeare and the Public Discourse of Sovereignty: ’Reason of State’ in ’Hamlet’” ?

    A. Hamlet is a tragedy focusing on the plight of the early-modern self.
    B. Hamlet is a tragedy that reflects Shakespeare’s own political circumstances.
    C. Hamlet is a tragedy that focuses on the Elizabethan era’s loss of faith in humanity’s ability to govern itself without violence.
    D. Hamlet is a tragedy that reflects upon enlightened and progressive political systems that developed during Shakespeare’s time.