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This document provides guidance on choosing an argumentative topic for a 3000 word paper. It suggests picking a topic that is interesting and important, on which reasonable people could disagree. Examples of argumentative topics include taking a stand on a controversy, evaluating a policy or program, proposing a solution, or arguing a particular interpretation of something. The document also provides sources for finding topic ideas, such as current events, academic interests, and opinion sections of news websites. It warns against topics that are too technical or rely solely on personal experience.
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The document summarizes Frances Smith Foster's argument that slave narratives followed a five-point structure based on the Judeo-Christian myth of salvation. This structure included a fall from innocence into slavery, mortification and suffering under slavery, a conversion or decision to flee slavery, the struggle of escape, and finally freedom or salvation. Key slave narratives like those of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs can be analyzed using this structure. However, the document notes slave narratives may have inadvertently reinforced some racial stereotypes about the locations of slavery and the black family structure.
Sound Effects in Poetry
This document summarizes various sound techniques used in poetry, including alliteration, assonance, rhyme, and onomatopoeia. It discusses how the repetition of consonant and vowel sounds can contribute to meaning and create imagery. It also defines different types of rhymes like exact rhyme, near rhyme, internal rhyme, and end rhyme. Additionally, it covers other literary devices like metaphor, metonymy, and hyperbole that utilize sound effects in poetry.
Rhythm
The document discusses rhythm in poetry through meter and scansion. It describes common poetic feet like iambic, trochaic, anapestic, and dactylic. It also discusses common line types such as monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, and pentameter. The document provides examples of scanning poems line by line to identify the meter and feet. It demonstrates how scanning an A.E. Housman poem identifies it as iambic tetrameter.
Figurative language
The document provides an overview of various types of figurative language including metaphors, similes, personification, puns, metonymy, synecdoche, hyperbole, understatement, oxymorons, and paradoxes. It explains each concept, provides examples from literature, and discusses how certain poems make use of extended metaphors or controlling metaphors.
Imagery
This document discusses imagery in literature and poetry. It defines imagery as language that appeals to the senses and creates mental images for the reader. There are different types of imagery, including visual, aural, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory imagery that appeal to sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste respectively. Effective imagery uses vivid language to paint sensory details that engage the reader's imagination. Imagery can combine different senses in a single image or be used together with other literary techniques like simile, hyperbole, and sound effects. The goal of imagery is to help readers visualize what the author has imagined.
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- Uncle Tom's Cabin was an influential anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and published in 1852 that strongly criticized the institution of slavery in the United States.
- The novel became immensely popular, with over 300,000 copies sold in the United States in its first year and millions more in subsequent years, greatly increasing anti-slavery sentiment in the North.
- The novel prompted calls from the South for a response that defended slavery and accused Stowe of spreading lies, showing how controversial and impactful the book was.
Transcendentalism
Transcendentalism was a literary, intellectual and artistic movement that emerged from Unitarianism in New England during the 19th century. Unitarianism rejected traditional Christian doctrines like the Trinity and took a more rational, scientific approach to religion. This led some Unitarians to form the transcendentalist movement, which was influenced by German and English romanticism. Transcendentalists like Ralph Waldo Emerson believed in an interconnected spiritual essence called the "Oversoul" and that divine truths could be found in nature. The movement emphasized intuition, individualism, and nonconformity. Though small, transcendentalism had influence on American literature and philosophy.
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The document discusses various techniques authors use to characterize their characters in stories. It describes how characters are characterized through their thoughts, words, actions, interactions with others, physical descriptions, settings, and names. Characters can be round (fully developed) or flat. The protagonist is usually the central character whose perspective is shown, while the antagonist opposes the protagonist.
Setting and symbolism
The document discusses the importance of setting in literature and provides examples of how setting can provide context, convey mood, and symbolize deeper meanings. Settings can be physical places and times that help readers understand the social and cultural norms of the story. Descriptions of setting also sometimes represent symbolic meanings beyond the literal details. The examples analyzed include settings and symbols from the short stories "The Hand", "Miss Brill", and "Love in L.A.".
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A good topic
- 1. A good topic • Interesting and important to you. • Something you would like to learn more about. • Something on which you can keep an open mind. • Something argumentative—people might disagree. • Narrowed so that you can explore it in detail in about 3000 words.
- 2. Some types of claims that are arguments • Taking a stand on a controversy – The goal of bilingual education should be to preserve the student’s first language while building skills in the target language. – Stem cell research should be allowed on embryonic cells that would otherwise be destroyed, but we should not purposely create cells for research.
- 3. Some types of claims that are arguments • Evaluating something – The sequester has helped to reduce the deficit but at a great cost to the economic recovery. – The Hawaii Convention Center, while architecturally successful, is unlikely to be an economic success. – The Common Core Standards will improve public education. – The rise of social media has had more positive than negative effects.
- 4. Some types of claims that are arguments • Proposing a solution – Mandatory premarital counseling and a waiting period of six months between applying for a license and getting married would help to decrease the number of divorces. – To decrease the shortage of health professionals, programs that pay for medical school or nursing school in exchange for service in underserved areas should be expanded.
- 5. Some types of claims that are arguments • Arguing for a particular interpretation or way of understanding something or explaining its significance or causes when other possible interpretations exist. – Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin was successful in reaching a female audience because it appealed to her readers’ maternal instincts and religious values. – More examples on next page
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- 10. Some news and commentary websites with opinion sections • CNN • Huffington Post • Newsweek • Salon • Slate • Time
- 11. Ideas for academic topics • Expand on something you worked on previously (Give me a copy of your old paper) • Ask a professor for suggestions. • Browse through some journals in your field. • Type your area of interest and “controversy” into a search engine.
- 12. Pitfalls to avoid • If you choose an academic topic be sure it – is not too technical or complex – does not require too much time to research • If you choose a subject of personal interest – Be sure it can be discussed in relation to a variety of electronic or print sources not just your own experience • Plagiarizing from other students, term paper mill, Internet etc. leads to failing the course.
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