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Write an essay in response to one of the following topics. Your essay should be 4-5 pages long, and develop a thesis as fully and coherently as possible. All examples and selections discussed should be those assigned for this course.
1. To a certain extent much American writing exhibits stylistic qualities found in colonial American writing; such qualities include a) energy of expression, b) closeness to facts of everyday life, and c) directness of language. Choose one of these qualities and discuss the extent to which works by two Puritan writers, Franklin’s Autobiography, and two works by Romantic writers exhibit this quality.
2. Poe argues in “The Philosophy of Composition and in “The Review of Hawthorne’s Twice-Told Tales that all great art is organic–the parts must fit together to achieve a predetermined purpose. Discuss the extent to which six works by different authors illustrate Poe’s idea.
3. Benjamin Franklin believed that writing should be both useful and interesting; to what varying degree do Franklin’s own works, those of at least two Puritans, and works of three Romantics illustrate these qualities? Use representative examples rather than whole careers.
4. Puritan writing has a strong ethical bias; its primary purpose is to assist the individual in reaching salvation. What support do you find for this statement in the works of any two Puritan writers? To what extent do Franklin and any three of the other non-Puritan writers we have studied exhibit a similar concern for salvation?
5. Choose two works from each of the Puritan, Enlightenment, and Romantic periods and discuss the extent to which these works differ in respect to a theme of your choice.
6. Choose two works from each of the Puritan, Enlightenment, and Romantic periods and discuss the extent to which these works differ in respect to a literary technique or stylistic device of your choice.
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