ENG222

Question 1

what has a influence on her self image

Answer 1

sexual idenity

Question 2

The figurative and literal representations of the speaker’s self-image:

Answer 2

are depicted by anorexia, as a result of deeply routed aversion to her sexual identity.

Question 3

Satire (genre)

Answer 3

use humor, exaggeration to expose vice, hypocrisy, political or social behavior

Question 4

How do child girls view a grown women

Answer 4

As a grave

Question 5

A social constructionist explanation of gender difference

Answer 5

Social construction theory sees gender-based social inequality dictates women’s roles, access to opportunities, and value

Question 6

An essentialist explanation of gender difference

Answer 6

essentialism sees gender difference in terms of biology, essential traits, “nature”

Question 7

Why does the speaker aspire to be “thin as a rib”

Answer 7

Symbolizes Eve being made from the rib of Adam, before the fall.

Question 8

Death in the sense of trying to attain

Answer 8

perfection

Question 9

What sort of relationship to her body does the speaker’s images convey: breasts as “digressive”; flesh as “interfering”; limbs capable of “blossoming” and therefore of “deceit”?

Answer 9

Idea the body is betraying, interfering with what she wants, deceiving her from what she wants, doesn’t want to eat and to stay away from death

Question 10

Intersectionality

Answer 10

A way of describing identities that accounts for individuals social locations within numerous systems of oppression

Question 11

When I was growing up by Clifton

Answer 11

Speaker longed during the ages of growing up to be white.

Question 12

My dream about being white by Wong

Answer 12

Speaker wants to be white, at the end of the poem dances (uses music) to accept the color of their skin

Question 13

Internalize

Answer 13

making the dominant group’s beliefs your own

Question 14

Colorism

Answer 14

prejudice against dark-skin within non-white ethnic/racial groups

Question 15

Horizontal hostility

Answer 15

When members of a marginalized identity group enforce systemic oppression against marginalized groups

Question 16

Langston Hughes “Mother to Son” (1922) Speaker

Answer 16

A women talking to her son, who has not had an easy life, southern vernacular, black vernacular

Question 17

Clifton “wishes for sons” (1987) speaker

Answer 17

A female speaker, aggravated by mens arrogance

Question 18

Clifton “wishes for sons” (1987) tone

Answer 18

aggravated by mens arrogance

Question 19

Langston Hughes “Mother to Son” (1922) tone

Answer 19

stern, humbleness to the speaker, humility to this speaker, instead of triumph there is a tone of perseverance.

Question 20

Marilyn Monroe

Answer 20

first sex figure, her body was seen as an ideal, her body was a subject to idolization

Question 21

How do the ambulance men treat the body of Marilyn Monroe?

Answer 21

They moved the body like an object, moved her hair , closed her eyes, tied her, they respected the body. They treated the body as if it was still Marilyn Monroe.

Question 22

Why do you imagine “These men were never the same” (11)? Why can’t they “meet / each other’s eyes” (13-14) In the “Death of Marilyn Monroe”

Answer 22

-These men like all men sexualized Monroe’s body, and now that her body is the only thing left they feel shame and guilt.
-Too overwhelming to come face to face with dead Marilyn Monroe, hard to process

Question 23

What is Marilyn Monroe dead body a symbol of

Answer 23

Death and Mortality

Question 24

What is the “this” of the poem titled “This”?

Answer 24

the speaker’s body

Question 25

What is the heroic accomplishment that the speaker of “Language of the Brag” imagines for her body?

Answer 25

childbirth

Question 26

Hysteria

Answer 26

emotional excess; once a common psychological/medical diagnosis; hippocrates (ancient Greek) credited for grouping such issues as anxiety, sense of suffocation, tremors, convulsions, or paralysis under the single designation of hysteria (wandering or migratory uterus)

Question 27

Hysterectomy

Answer 27

Surgical removal of the uterus

Question 28

anaphora

Answer 28

the repetition of “one is” at the start of each line (epic catalogue)

Question 29

step 2 of the bechdel test

Answer 29

do they talk to each other?

Question 30

what are the steps of the bechdel test

Answer 30

1) are there at least two women?
2) do they talk to each other?
3) about something other than a man?

Question 31

What is Alison Bechdel most known for?

Answer 31

Dykes to Watch Out For