CMLIT010

Sorting Exercise -- Second Version

Print out this page, complete according to the instructions, and bring to your last discussion class (27 April). This is your last discussion assignment.

Your name______________________________________

I. Place checkmarks in the appropriate columns for each work. 4-6 are to be selected from the Norton anthology. 7-9 are to be selected on the basis of what you have read or heard up to this point in your life (popular music, granddad's stories, etc.) Texts chosen need not match those in the first version
Name of text
a.
is poetry
b.
is prose
c.
is in between
d.
is neither
e.
is oral
f.
is literate
g.
is both
h.
is neither
1. Popol Vuh (1742)                
2. Eliduc (996)                
3. "Anywhere Out of the World" (2431)                
4.                
5.                
6.                
7.                
8                
9.                
II. By considering the texts which have a tick in column A or column B, fill in the columns below, being as specific as you can.
What about a text helps you decide whether it is poetry? What about a text helps you decide whether it is prose?

 
 

 

  
III. By considering the texts which have a tick in column E or column F, fill in the columns below, being as specific as you can.
What about a text helps you decide whether it was composed orally? What about a text helps you decide whether it is a written form?

 
 

 

  
IV. Fill in the following table, choosing three forms from the syllabus and then making as explicit as you can the features of a text which characterize that form
Name of form Features you would expect to find in a text of this form
1.

 

  
2.

 

  
3.

 

  
V. In the space below (or on the back of the sheet), please compare the answers you have given on this version of the sorting exercise with those you gave on the version at the beginning of the semester, if you did one. (Hopefully, you have kept a copy of that version; if not, use your memory as best you can.) Are you more or less confident about your answers this time? Has the course explained why some texts belong in the "both" or "neither" column? Has the exercise become easier, or more difficult?