Today's class focused on how to break down a prose prompt and move beyond surface analysis. From a quick glance at the time, setting, and circumstance, one would be tempted to analyze the typical gender roles of husband and wife. However, through Rosamond's jejune nature and Lydgate's cerebral mentality, the two often portray atypical roles as they delineate how their money woes will be solved. As with all prose prompts, you will want to bring in character types, utilize specific adjectives to label the characters, include literary devices (hello, dialogue, similes, tone shifts, diction shifts, juxtaposition, and even a few syntactical favs like anaphora, telegraphic sentences, interrogative queries, and exclamatory phrasing).
Before class tomorrow, take a look at the free response prompts from 1970-2013 and star your favorites for practice exercises tomorrow.
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