Team MC Part II

While we are practicing with poetry passages for our upcoming MC test, prose passages do occur too (they're just harder to do as a team close read on the board). While prose may be out of fashion in Lit after last quarter's poetic crunch via sonnets and Lear, prose is making a comeback with The Cherry Orchard, which will be read and book carded (that's not a verb, but I trapped myself in the syntax there) for Tuesday. Back to MC, no matter how much you want to take the passage and find every literary element in there, do take a pause and recognize you also need to understand the passage as a whole, as in theme, motifs, symbolic meanings, characterization and conflicts if in the prose world.