Midterm Review
English 35
Identify Quotation with Author and Title
 “When you know your name, you should
hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and
remembered, it will die when you do.”
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
Identify Quotation with Author and Title
 “’And how I wait for you, and watch those
lilac bushes, Adrienne! If you should once
fail to come, it would be like the spring
coming without the sunshine or the song of
birds.’”
“Lilacs”
Kate Chopin
Identify Quotation with Author and Title
 “You could not have said that her freshness
was fading but she smiled at herself in
mirrors a little too often, these days, and the
face that smiled back was not quite the one
she had seen contained in [his] agate eyes.
Her face was acquiring, instead of beauty, a
lacquer of the invincible prettiness that
characterizes certain pampered, exquisite,
expensive cats.”
“The Courtship of Mr. Lyon”
Angela Carter
Identify Quotation with Author and Title
 “I came to see the damage that was done/
and the treasures that prevail.”
“Diving into the Wreck”
Adrienne Rich
Identify Quotation with Author and Title
 “At thirty-three she really was still the girl
from Berkeley, in all but physique. Her
conscious development had stopped
mysteriously with her marriage, completely
arrested”
“The Woman Who Rode Away”
D.H. Lawrence
Identify Quotation with Author and Title
 “…he snatched the unwilling maid into his
golden chariot/ and led her off lamenting.
She screamed with a shrill voice,/ calling on
her father, the son of Kronos highest and
best.”
“The Homeric Hymn to
Demeter”
Homer
Identify Quotation with Author and Title
 “She must have surprised a resigned glance
between us, for she then remarked, with the
smallest of mocking smiles: ‘One surely
ought to stay in character, wouldn’t you
say?’”
“Our Friend Judith”
Doris Lessing
Identify Quotation with Author and Title
 “Were there jewels enough in all his safes
to recompense me for this predicament? Did
all that castle hold enough riches to
recompense me for the company of the
libertine with whom I must share it?”
“The Bloody Chamber”
Angela Carter
Identify Quotation with Author and Title
 “Headless girl so ill at ease on the bed/ I
know, if you could, what you’re thinking
of:/ nothing. I used to think that, too.”
“Party Dress for a First Born”
Rita Dove
Identify Quotation with Author and Title
 “’Then I’ll be a fishing widow and you’ll be
a nature ramble widow,’ dared Myra,
smiling -- as she knew-- with nervousness.”
“Among the Roses”
Doris Lessing
Identify Quotation with Author and Title
 “You have pissed your last in this house . . .
and I don't make velvet roses anymore.”
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
Identify Quotation with Author and Title
 “You will be beside the myth. If you must
think of anything, think of countries,
silence, but we cannot rephrase it for you. If
we could, why would we trouble to show
you the myth?”
The Love of the Nightingale
Timberlake Wertenbaker
Identify Quotation with Author and Title
 “And when they saw her, they were
astonished, and admired her beauty
exceedingly. But they asked her no
question, only they let her pass, saying ‘the
God of our fathers give thee grace…’”
The Book of Judith
The Bible
Identify Quotation with Author and Title
 “[She] kissed his fine forehead and
smoothed back his dripping hair. He was
like the marble statue down in her little
garden; she kissed him again and wished
that he might live.”
“The Little Mermaid”
Hans Christian Andersen
Identify Quotation with Author and Title
 “So she took up the pomegranate, and
applied it to her nose; and, somehow or
other, being in such close neighborhood to
her mouth, the fruit found its way into that
little red cave. Dear me! What an
everlasting pity! Before [she] knew what
she was about, her teeth had actually bitten
it, of their own accord.”
“The Pomegranate Seeds”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Identify Quotation with Author and Title
 “It is true that your father wants to marry
you, and it would be a fatal mistake to pay
attention to his mad demand. But there is a
way of refusing him without defying him.”
“Donkeyskin”
Charles Perrault
Identify Quotation with Author and Title
 “She was pretty enough, pleasant enough,
and her father had the money they could
rely on if needed, but she lacked drive.
These men wanted wives who could
manage, who were not so well accustomed
to middle-class life that they had no
ambition, no hunger, no hustle in them.”
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
Short Answer Questions
 Why is it important for authors to re-work
traditional stories instead of just making up new
stories all together? Give at least two examples to
support your point.
 What are some similarities between the
Persephone myth and the Procne and Philomela
myth? Name at least three points of comparison.
 What are some of the most significant themes that
Angela Carter adds to her fairy tale short stories?
Give two major themes that she explores and at
least two examples of each.
Essay Question
 Explicate the following passage from Song of
Solomon. Explain what it means. Then, describe
some of the unique literary features of the passage.
Finally, explain how Morrison’s literary devices
ADD to the overall meaning of the piece. In other
words, explain that how she says it is as important
as what she says.