Part I (40 points total): This section of the exam covers material read and discussed after Wednesday, March 28th beginning with John Ruskin and Thomas Hardy. It will have the same format as your semester examinations.
a: Identify the author and title of 5 (out of 8) passages. You must provide first and last name of the author. (10 points)
b: After you note author and title, you will be asked to respond to a few short questions about 3 of the passages that you’ve identified (30 points).
Part II (20 points total): In this section of the essay, you will be asked to write an essay about Never Let Me Go. You will have a choice between essay topics and you will have the option of writing on the novel alone, or writing an essay that draws connections between Never Let Me Go and other works read this semester.
Part III (40 points total): In this section of the exam, you will be responsible for defining ? literary terms. In addition to noting the main features of the term in question, you will be asked to give 1 example, and briefly discuss how the example fulfills the term’s requirements.
There will be 8 terms from the following list and you will be asked to write on 5:
Narrative voice (1st person, 3rd person, and 3rd person limited); Lyric poetry; Personal Lyric; Dramatic Lyric; Dramatic Monologue; Ode; Metrical Verse terms (Blank verse, Free Verse, and Iambic Pentameter); Stream-of-Consciousness; Adaptation as Postmodern Transformation; The Sublime; Eighteenth-Century Heroic Couplets; the Sonnet; Poetic Sound Devices (alliteration, assonance, and consonance); Metaphor and Similes; Bildungsroman
Please bring an exam booklet for Parts II and III