English 2773 Quotes and Documentation Quiz

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Correct any errors in citation and documentation for #'s 1-4:

1) The speaker in W. D. Snodgrass's "Leaving the Motel" advises his or her lover to "Keep things straight: don't take/The matches, the wrong keyrings--/We've nowhere we could keep a keepsake--/Ashtrays, combs, things/That sooner or later others/Would accidentally find.(9-14)"
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

2) In "Two Songs," by Adrienne Rich, the speaker says, "I'd call it love if love/ didn't take so many years/ but lust too is a jewel/ a sweet flower and what/ pure happiness to know/ all our high-toned questions/ breed in a lively animal."(720: 15-21).
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

3) When Herrick's speaker tells virgin maidens, "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may(1)", he is encouraging them to "seize the day."
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

4) The speaker in "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" says, "I've known rivers:/Ancient, dusky rivers./My soul has grown deep like the rivers."(8-10)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

5) Which of the following (a-d) is correct:

a) Dickens intrudes even upon his own authorial commentary in the

opening sentence of The Chimes with a facetious remark on the

special relationship between writers and readers:

There are not many people—and as it is desirable that a
story-teller and a story-reader should establish a mutual
understanding as soon as possible, I beg it to be noticed
that I confine this observation neither to young people nor to
little people, but extend it to all conditions of people: little and
big, young and old: yet growing up, or already growing down
again—there are not, I say, many people who would care to
sleep in a church.  (81)

Far from striving to keep the author behind the scenes in the illusion

that novels describe actual persons and events as modern writers do,

Dickens seems instead to impose his authorial presence. . . .

 

b) Dickens intrudes even upon his own authorial commentary in the

opening sentence of The Chimes with a facetious remark on the

special relationship between writers and readers:

There are not many people—and as it is desirable

that a storyteller and a story-reader should establish

a mutual understanding as soon as possible, I beg it

to be noticed that I confine this observation neither to

young people nor to little people, but extend it to all

conditions of people . . . [:] there are not, I say, many

people who would care to sleep in a church.  (81)

Far from striving to keep the author behind the scenes in the illusion

that novels describe actual persons and events as modern writers do,

Dickens seems instead to impose his authorial presence. . . .

 

c) Dickens intrudes even upon his own authorial commentary in the

opening sentence of The Chimes with a facetious remark on the

special relationship between writers and readers:

There are not many people—and as it is desirable that a story-

teller and a story-reader should establish a mutual understanding

as soon as possible, I beg it to be noticed that I confine this

observation neither to young people nor to little people, but

extend it to all conditions of people: little and big, young and

old: yet growing up, or already growing down again—there are not,

I say, many people who would care to sleep in a church.  (81)

Far from striving to keep the author behind the scenes in the illusion

that novels describe actual persons and events as modern writers do,

Dickens seems instead to impose his authorial presence. . . .
 


d) Dickens intrudes even upon his own authorial commentary in the

opening sentence of The Chimes with a facetious remark on the

special relationship between writers and readers:


There are not many people—and as it is desirable that a story-

teller and a story-reader should establish a mutual understanding

as soon as possible, I beg it to be noticed that I confine this

observation neither to young people nor to little people, but

extend it to all conditions of people: little and big, young and

old: yet growing up, or already growing down again—there are not,

I say, many people who would care to sleep in a church.  (81)


Far from striving to keep the author behind the scenes in the illusion

that novels describe actual persons and events as modern writers do,

Dickens seems instead to impose his authorial presence. . . .


 

6) Give correct works cited entries for the following (a-d):

a) The poem, "The Flesh and the Spirit," which starts on p. 260 in our Norton text.

b) The play Hamlet, from the third edition of The Complete Works of Shakespeare, which is edited by David Bevington, of the University of Chicago.  The book was published by Scott, Foresman and Company in Glenview, Illinois in 1980, and Hamlet is on pp. 1074-1120.

c) An article by Bill Williams titled "Re-Visioning the Double Play," from the scholarly journal, Academic Baseball, edited by Jack Johnson, published at the University of the Diamond Press in Atlanta, GA, in the 35th volume (the year 2006), on pages 295-375.

d) The 3rd edition of Boys Playing on Diamonds, written by Bill Williams and published in 2007 by the University of the Diamond Press in Atlanta, GA.  The book has 673 pages.