English 201 Quotes and Documentation QuizCorrect 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 peopleand 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
againthere 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 peopleand 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 peopleand 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 againthere 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 theopening sentence of The Chimes with a facetious remark on the
special relationship between writers and readers:
There are not many peopleand 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 againthere 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 illusionthat 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 Faerie Queene, which starts on p. 362 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 2001), on pages 295-375.
d) The 3rd edition of Boys Playing on Diamonds, written by Bill Williams and published in 2003 by the University of the Diamond Press in Atlanta, GA. The book has 673 pages.