Elements Of Poetry

Choose and respond to any 5 of the following 8 questions. Do not answer all 8. Only answer 5 of the 8 questions. You can choose any ones you want. While your responses to the questions do not have to be long (a paragraph or two should be sufficient), you must be sure respond adequately to the question and to include evidence from the text to support your responses. 1) In “Popular Mechanics” discuss the story’s final lines. What is the “issue” that is “decided?” 2) Is “I Can Speak” a satire about overzealous parenting, the way corporations take over our domestic lives, or something else? 3) How is “The Enormous Radio” written in 1947, still relevant to contemporary technology? 4) In “The Missing Peace,” explore use of Peace in the title and throughout the story. 5) In “Othello,” who is the main character, Othello or Iago? Explain. 6) In “Othello” who is responsible for Desdemona’s death, Othello since he physically committed the act or Iago for driving Othello to commit the act with his ingenious manipulation? 7) Choose any short story that you did not write about in the above questions and show how the story exemplifies any of the elements of fiction. 8) Choose any of the poems we have read and show how it exemplifies any of the elements of poetry.