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Ms. Divers Vega, BAEd, MLIS

Final Exam Review Carvin School, Inc.

Carolina, Puerto Rico
May, 2017
 Modernism
Virgina Woolf - Professions For Women
She talks about the Angel in the House concept.
James Joyce - Eveline
Example of flow of thoughts; character's inner perspective.
Yasunari Kawabata - The Jay
Lopald Sdar Senghor - Selected poems that reflected African culture.
Gabriela Mistral - Poem: Time, example of her style that is emotionally
focused or intense.
Poetry was favored because of its ability to provide freedom in
writing.
 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
First novel published in English by a native African.
The author is well known for his literary, social and cultural
contributions.
The purpose of the novel is to expose what happens when
traditional and colonial cultures collide.
The main character in the novel is Okwonkwo and his greatest
weakness is inflexibility.
The Igbo/Ibo culture is represented in the novel.
Stories and proverbs were praised in the art of conversation.
The District Commissioners title for the events that occurred in the
village was an ironic ending.
 Nobel Prize and World Literature

Reflects important trends and concerns worldwide.

One the topics exposed in this type of literature is
apartheid, the official system of segregation on South
Africa.
Nadine Gordimer - Amnesty
Presents the struggle, social problems, consequences,
and the personal sacrifices that result from apartheid.
 Magical Realism
Is a category in fiction in which fantastical, unbelievable
events take place in a realistic setting.
Usually Magical Realism is associated with Latin American
Literature.
Gabriel Garca Mrquez - The Handsomest Drowned Man In
The World
At the end of the story the villagers cleaned Esteban's body,
dressed it, held an elaborate funeral and then threw the body
off the cliffs. They wanted to name the village after him;
"Esteban's Village".
 The Writing Process
1. Pre-writing: All the thinking, planning, and organizing
before you start writing.
2. Drafting: Were you put your thoughts into sentences and
paragraphs.
3. Revising: Looking for ways to make the draft clearer.
Eliminate problems with ideas and unity, organization and
coherence, sentence variety, and word choice.
4. Editing/Proofreading: Searching for mistakes in spelling,
punctuation, capitalization, and usage.
5. Publishing: Sharing what you have written.
 Pre-Writing Strategies

1. What if? Questions

2. Brainstorming
3. Freewriting
4. Clustering, Mapping, or Webbing
5. Writer's Notebook
 Writing Terms
Writer's Notebook: A strategy for jotting down ideas and
thoughts that interest you.

Audience: The person or persons that will read what you

wrote.

Purpose: To describe, inform, narrate, or persuade.

Outline: A strategy for structuring or organizing sentences

and ideas.

Style: The manner in which you express your thoughts.

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