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Genre Warm Up

This document provides 10 opening lines from different literary genres and asks the reader to identify each as prose (A), poetry (B), or drama (C). The genres identified are: 1. B 2. B 3. A 4. C 5. A 6. B 7. C 8. B 9. A 10. A

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Genre Warm Up

This document provides 10 opening lines from different literary genres and asks the reader to identify each as prose (A), poetry (B), or drama (C). The genres identified are: 1. B 2. B 3. A 4. C 5. A 6. B 7. C 8. B 9. A 10. A

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LITERARY GENRE WARM UP

Number your paper 1-10 and identify each opening line by genre as
either A, B, or C:

A. PROSE

B. POETRY

C. DRAMA

1. This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.
2. When I do count the clock that tells the time,
3. No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth
century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely by
intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as
men busied themselves about their affairs they were scrutinized and
studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might
scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of
water.
4. THOMASINA: Septimus, what is carnal embrace?
5. In olden times, when wishing still helped, there lived a king whose
daughters were all beautiful, but the youngest was so beautiful that
the sun itself, which had seen so many things, was always filled with
amazement each time it cast its rays upon her face.
6. Because I could not stop for Death
7. DIPUS; WHY sit ye here, my children, brood last reared
Of Cadmus famed of old, in solemn state,
Uplifting in your hands the suppliants boughs?
8. In life
one is always
balancing
like we juggle our mothers
against our fathers
9. Granted: I am an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching
me, he never lets me out of his sight; there's a peephole in the door,
and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can never see through
a blue-eyed type like me.
10.Claude (North Country accent): Ny name is Claude. Claude Hooper.
Claude Hooper Bukowski. Im human being number 1005963297 dash
J, Area Code 609; maybe youve seen me around. Just another number.
The most beautiful beast in the forest. I come from Manchester,
England.

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