Passage Identification
"When I took the first survey of my undertaking, I found our speech copious without order, and energetick without rules: wherever I turned my view, there was perplexity to be disentangled, and confusion to be regulated; choice was to be made out of boundless variety, without any established principle of selection; adulterations were to be detected, without a settled test of purity; and modes of expression to be rejected or received, without the suffrages of any writers of classical reputation or acknowledged authority."
Who is Samuel Johnson?
From the Latin for “written by hand,” this word refers to any handwritten book created before print culture.
What is manuscript?
Eco contrasts a literature review with a full research thesis, noting that the latter demands more time and effort. This single word describes such demanding scholarly work.
What is research?
All papers in this course—from Paper 1 through Paper 4—must use this citation style, complete with appropriate formatting.
What is MLA?
Both Auden and Williams reference this mythological figure whose “white legs” disappear into the water or whose fall is “quite unnoticed.”
Who is Icarus?
"I am interested in this opposition specifically as it is used to mark the distinction between writing and translating-marking, that is, the one to be original and "masculine," the other to be derivative and "feminine.""
Who is Lori Chamberlain?
This field’s name comes from the word codex and focuses on the physical construction of books—their parchment, quires, bindings, and page layout.
What is codicology?
Eco says that before you begin writing, you should choose a topic that fits your prior coursework, interests, and experience.
What is selecting a topic you are actually prepared to handle?
Whether writing a close reading, a comparative essay, or a translator’s preface, students must always support their claims with this element, often through quotations.
What is evidence?
Both Auden and Williams anchor their poems in this painter’s work, using his images to explore how ordinary people react—or fail to react—to human suffering.
Who is Brueghel?
Theseus’s well-known words from A Midsummer Night’s Dream offer a theory of literary creation precisely balanced between the transcendent and the physical. They describe the ongoing materialization of “things unknown” into “bodies” and “forms,” and thence into “shapes.”
Who is Jessica Brantley?
This discipline, literally meaning “old writing,” studies medieval scripts, abbreviations, and letterforms.
Eco says a thesis is useful because it teaches skills you’ll carry into any profession, especially the ability to think clearly and logically.
What is analysis?
Every rubric states that a strong essay contains an introduction, body paragraphs, and this final section that ties everything together.
What is conclusion?
Williams begins “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” by saying that, according to Brueghel, Icarus fell during this season.
What is spring?
"a splash quite unnoticed"
Who is William Carlos Williams?
More durable than the scroll, this book form—with pages bound along one edge—dominated the Middle Ages and survives today.
Eco says you should always choose a thesis topic that matches what you already know and can actually manage.
What is feasibility?
In Paper 4, students imagine introducing their translated novel by writing this 4-page piece explaining their methods and priorities.
What is translator's preface?
In Williams’s retelling of the Icarus myth, this event—described as “quite unnoticed”—signals Icarus’s fate.
What is a splash?
Language is not everything.
The word for a professional copyist in the Middle Ages, famously addressed by Chaucer in “Adam Scriveyn.”
Who is a scribe?
Eco says the most important part of thesis writing is not the topic but the method, which trains this mental capacity—something students retain throughout their lives.
According to the Paper 1 rubric, a strong essay doesn’t summarize—it makes this kind of interpretive move that digs deeper into the text.
What is analytical turn?
According to Auden, this worker may have heard Icarus’s splash, but found it “not an important failure.”
Who is the ploughman?