EXERCISE 4

● EXERCISE 4 ●

Identify the appositives in the following sentences from “I Know Why the Caged Bird Can’t Read,” and explain their effect. Note that all are direct quotations.

  1. Traditionally, the love of reading has been born and nurtured in high school English class—the last time many students will find themselves in a roomful of people who have all read the same text and are, in theory, prepared to discuss it.

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    Chapter 5 - EXERCISE 4: - Identify the appositives in the following sentences from “I Know Why the Caged Bird Can’t Read,” and explain their effect. Note that all are direct quotations. - Traditionally, the love of reading has been born and nurtured in high school English class—the last time many students will find themselves in a roomful of people who have all read the same text and are, in theory, prepared to discuss it.
  2. The intense loyalty adults harbor for books first encountered in youth is one probable reason for the otherwise baffling longevity of vintage mediocre novels, books that teachers may themselves have read in adolescence. . . .

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    uZxg83qH9uNZ3NUqyV8wT7hdxc9/5MQeJeZaOsQNhvI0w6Xk3EOeDQ1B873FE1s7
    Chapter 5 - EXERCISE 4: - Identify the appositives in the following sentences from “I Know Why the Caged Bird Can’t Read,” and explain their effect. Note that all are direct quotations. - The intense loyalty adults harbor for books first encountered in youth is one probable reason for the otherwise baffling longevity of vintage mediocre novels, books that teachers may themselves have read in adolescence. . . .
  3. My older son spent the first several weeks of sophomore English discussing the class’s summer assignment, Ordinary People, a weeper and former bestseller by Judith Guest about a “dysfunctional” family recovering from a teenage son’s suicide attempt.

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    uZxg83qH9uNZ3NUqyV8wT7hdxc9/5MQeJeZaOsQNhvI0w6Xk3EOeDQ1B873FE1s7
    Chapter 5 - EXERCISE 4: - Identify the appositives in the following sentences from “I Know Why the Caged Bird Can’t Read,” and explain their effect. Note that all are direct quotations. - My older son spent the first several weeks of sophomore English discussing the class’s summer assignment, Ordinary People, a weeper and former bestseller by Judith Guest about a “dysfunctional” family recovering from a teenage son’s suicide attempt.
  4. Yet in other genres—fiction and memoir—the news is far more upsetting.

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    Chapter 5 - EXERCISE 4: - Identify the appositives in the following sentences from “I Know Why the Caged Bird Can’t Read,” and explain their effect. Note that all are direct quotations. - Yet in other genres—fiction and memoir—the news is far more upsetting.
  5. First published in 1970, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is what we have since learned to recognize as a “survivor” memoir, a first-person narrative of victimization and recovery.

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    uZxg83qH9uNZ3NUqyV8wT7hdxc9/5MQeJeZaOsQNhvI0w6Xk3EOeDQ1B873FE1s7
    Chapter 5 - EXERCISE 4: - Identify the appositives in the following sentences from “I Know Why the Caged Bird Can’t Read,” and explain their effect. Note that all are direct quotations. - First published in 1970, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is what we have since learned to recognize as a “survivor” memoir, a first-person narrative of victimization and recovery.
  6. Its hero is Scout’s father, the saintly Atticus Finch, a lawyer who represents everything we cherish about justice and democracy and the American Way.

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    uZxg83qH9uNZ3NUqyV8wT7hdxc9/5MQeJeZaOsQNhvI0w6Xk3EOeDQ1B873FE1s7
    Chapter 5 - EXERCISE 4: - Identify the appositives in the following sentences from “I Know Why the Caged Bird Can’t Read,” and explain their effect. Note that all are direct quotations. - Its hero is Scout’s father, the saintly Atticus Finch, a lawyer who represents everything we cherish about justice and democracy and the American Way.
  7. The novel has a shadow hero, too, the descriptively named Boo Radley, a gooney recluse who becomes the occasion for yet another lesson in tolerance and compassion.

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    uZxg83qH9uNZ3NUqyV8wT7hdxc9/5MQeJeZaOsQNhvI0w6Xk3EOeDQ1B873FE1s7
    Chapter 5 - EXERCISE 4: - Identify the appositives in the following sentences from “I Know Why the Caged Bird Can’t Read,” and explain their effect. Note that all are direct quotations. - The novel has a shadow hero, too, the descriptively named Boo Radley, a gooney recluse who becomes the occasion for yet another lesson in tolerance and compassion.
  8. To read the novel is, for most, an exercise in wish-fulfillment and self-congratulation, a chance to consider thorny issues of race and prejudice from a safe distance and with the comfortable certainty that the reader would never harbor the racist attitudes espoused by the lowlifes in the novel.

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    uZxg83qH9uNZ3NUqyV8wT7hdxc9/5MQeJeZaOsQNhvI0w6Xk3EOeDQ1B873FE1s7
    Chapter 5 - EXERCISE 4: - Identify the appositives in the following sentences from “I Know Why the Caged Bird Can’t Read,” and explain their effect. Note that all are direct quotations. - To read the novel is, for most, an exercise in wish-fulfillment and self-congratulation, a chance to consider thorny issues of race and prejudice from a safe distance and with the comfortable certainty that the reader would never harbor the racist attitudes espoused by the lowlifes in the novel.
  9. The question is no longer what the writer has written but rather who the writer is—specifically, what ethnic group or gender identity an author represents.

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    uZxg83qH9uNZ3NUqyV8wT7hdxc9/5MQeJeZaOsQNhvI0w6Xk3EOeDQ1B873FE1s7
    Chapter 5 - EXERCISE 4: - Identify the appositives in the following sentences from “I Know Why the Caged Bird Can’t Read,” and explain their effect. Note that all are direct quotations. - The question is no longer what the writer has written but rather who the writer is—specifically, what ethnic group or gender identity an author represents.
  10. Meanwhile, aesthetic beauty—felicitous or accurate language, images, rhythm, wit, the satisfaction of recognizing something in fiction that seems fresh and true—is simply too frivolous, suspect, and elitist even to mention.

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    uZxg83qH9uNZ3NUqyV8wT7hdxc9/5MQeJeZaOsQNhvI0w6Xk3EOeDQ1B873FE1s7
    Chapter 5 - EXERCISE 4: - Identify the appositives in the following sentences from “I Know Why the Caged Bird Can’t Read,” and explain their effect. Note that all are direct quotations. - Meanwhile, aesthetic beauty—felicitous or accurate language, images, rhythm, wit, the satisfaction of recognizing something in fiction that seems fresh and true—is simply too frivolous, suspect, and elitist even to mention.