UIL Literary Criticism

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2010-2011 Reading List

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Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape

Theodore Roethke, selected poetry

Open House My Papa's Waltz The Sententious Man Otto
Mid-Country Blow Dolor The Pure Fury The Storm (Forio d'Ischia)
The Heron Double Feature A Walk in Late Summer from Sequence, Sometimes Metaphysical
The Bat I Cry, Love! Love! Slug .................In a Dark Time
On the Road to Woodlawn Elegy for Jane from Mediatations of an Old Woman .................The Sequel
Cuttings The Waking .................First Meditation .................The Right Thing
Cuttings (later) I Knew a Woman Elegy  

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New to the Contest?  Let's Get Familiar: A Very Basic Introductory Session for Both Students and Coaches


Tropes, Schemes, and Themes:What Might Be Addressed in Parts 2, 3, and 4 of the Test


Antigone's Bridal Vault and Over the Range with Mr. Higgs: What's to Discover in Sophocles' Antigonê and in Butler's Erewhon


Poems for Explication: Practice for Parts 3 and 4

 

Sample Tie-Breaking Prompts and Critical Notes

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Invitational A 2009

Invitational B 2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mr. Bernier's Blinn College faculty page

mbernier@blinn.edu