Write down something interesting about Adrienne Rich or her work.

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Write down something interesting about Adrienne
Rich or her work.

• Some ideas
• What is Diving into the Wreck about?
• Explain the difference between the wreck and
  the story of the wreck.
• In what sense can the narrator simultaneously be
  he and she?
• Discuss change as it relates to Richs poetic
  career.
• Why would a poet suppress, omit, and falsify in
  order to achieve perfection?
• How is the personal political for Rich?

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Some Terms

• Motif a recurrent device, formula, or situation.
• Echo a formulation that recalls a word, phrase,
  or sound in another text.
• Allusion More insistently than an echo, this
  connects a particular word, phrase, or section of
  a poem with some similar formulation in a
  previous text.

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• The truest poetry is the most feigning.
• William Shakespeare

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Autoethnography
Marranos?
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What Not to do in MLA Style

• Extra spaces
• Bold titles, or anything in bold
• Titles in caps
• Different fonts or font sizes
• Incorrect headers, such as Name-1-
• Incorrect references (p. 137)
• Overuse of quotation marks or italics
• Misuse of dashes
• Names of centuries in numbers 21st
• Dates 25th October, 2007 or Nov. 6th, 2007

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Simple Mistakes

• Being such rare opportunities, I am proud . . .
• Most people have at one point or another in
  their lives have felt othered.
• . . . my lessons books . . .
• The jokes lose their humor when they told hours
  later.
• I have spoke in English.
• I had spoke . . .
• In the society you and me belong to . . .
• The need to have ones values . . .

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HomonymsWhich Witch is Which

• There, their, and theyre
• Your, youre (and yore, for that matter)
• Two, too, and to
• Were, were
• Then, than (not really a homonym, but close
  enough to confuse)

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Verb conjugations

• I find myself struggling with exchanges, which
  separates me from the majority.
• There is an endless amount of expectations to
  fulfill.
• Many get good marks in school and therefore is
  stereotyped as a nerd or a geek.
• The buildings has to be kept clean.

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Unclear referents

• It is believed . . .
• It is especially hard to find this when youre
  in an environment where it is already handed to
  you by numerous people.

Pronoun agreement
It is hard for one to know every single detail
attached to their culture. Like any young
person who is growing into who they are going to
be, they struggle with their own
identity. People do not expect someone to
spend all of their time . . .
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Compound words

• throughout
• anyone
• overcome
• cannot
• sometimes
• commonplace
• myself

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Semicolons

• What this means is basically any time when a
  person feels as though he or she does not belong
  like the majority of individuals present are of a
  totally different group than himself.
• I believe the causes for this are twofold one
  because . . . (a semicolon is not a colon)

Cranking the engine
For me being a teenager I feel . . . I,
myself . . .
Lacking clarity

. . . are propagating exactly what they are
discriminating towards me for.
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Good work

• Finding an apt citation It is not worth any
  mans time to be in the majority. By definition,
  there are already enough people to do that.
  (G.H. Hardy)
• Going against the grain is decidedly difficult
  there are only so many parallels and
  perpendiculars on one piece of wood.
• Appropriate use of non-English phrases non,
  ceci est mon related to Non ceci est le mien.
• I found many expressions of your thoughts and
  feelings not only admirable, but also touching.
• Remember that we have just begun. All of you have
  the ability to work on your papers and improve
  your writing.