(a) Identify the author, the title of the literary work, and the publication year.
(b) Explain the context- (i.e.) name the character and paraphrase what the character is saying.
(c) Interpret the significance of the quotation.
(d) Connect your interpretation and analysis of the quotation to the major theme of the text.
1. “So those whose hearts are truly pure and lowly/ Don’t make a flashy show of being holy. / There’s a vast difference, so it seems to me, / Between true piety and hypocrisy: / How do you fail to see it, may I ask? / Is not a face quite different from a mask?” (at least 150 words)
2. “Our sins are stubborn, our contrition lame;/ we want our scruples to be worth our while–/ how cheerfully we crawl back to the mire; a few cheap tears will wash our stains away!” (at least 150 words)
3. “The priest began with a sketch of sacred history. . . . The sowings, harvest, wine-presses, all the familiar things the Gospel speaks of, were a part of her life. They had been made holy by God’s passing, and she loved the lambs more tenderly for her love of the Lamb, and the doves because of the Holy Ghost. She found it hard to imagine Him in person, for He was not merely a bird, but a flame as well, and a breath at other times. . . . Of doctrines she understood nothing–did not even try to understand.” (at least 150 words)