Poetry
This type of poem adopts the voice of a different/celebrity person.
What is a persona poem?
This type of essay takes two threads and weaves them back and forth.
What is a braided essay?
This reading made us realize Twilight was gothic.
What is "Good Country Folk" by Flannery O'Connor?
This board game is played by a surprisingly large number of people in this class.
What is Dungeon and Dragons?
Prof Vanderlip's preferred genre.
What is essays/ CNF?
This occurs when two or more words repeat the same vowel sound but begin with different consonant sounds.
What is Assonance?
This reading introduced the reader to the history of telephone poles.
What is "Time and Distance Overcome?" by Eula Biss?
This form of fiction often is created to mimic a falling action driven narrative.
What is avalanche?
This story had implied trauma that no one caught, and when Prof Vanderlip pointed it out, it ruined everyone's day.
What is "Where are You Going, Where Have you Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates?
Prof. Vanderlip's home state.
What is Michigan?
This type of poem is a traditional form, often fourteen lines.
What is a sonnet?
This type of essay uses a non traditional form.
What is a borrowed form essay?
This reading tells the story of a small town involved in a yearly ritual.
What is "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson?
According to Prof Vanderlip, what is an essential college skill?
Learning to BS if you haven't done the reading.
Prof Vanderlip's pronouns.
What is she/they?
This reading came up in our classroom work and used the political issue of guns to demonstrate how poetry can be activist work.
What is "The Gun Joke" by Jamaal May?
This reading brought in a pop-culture idea and mixed it with a personal story.
What is "Dead Girls" by Alice Bolin?
This reading played with metaphor with the evolution and acceptance of trauma through the physical appearance of a dog.
What is "Dogs Go Wolf" by Lauren Groff?
It could have been a baby heart, it could have been a pet heart, it could have been an artifact for witchcraft. Anywhich way, this story caused some significant discussion.
What is "Mona" by Laura Kasischke?
Prof. Vanderlip's favorite wrestler?
Who is the Undertaker?
This is how we refer to the writer in poetry.
What is the speaker?
This is how we refer to the writer in essays.
This is how we refer to the writer in fiction.
Who is the narrator?
This place in Denton has been the focus of several discussions and a prompt.
What is the Chairey Orchard?
Prof Vanderlip's favorite book to revisit?
What is Watership Down?