Part I: Passage Identification

You will be asked to identify the author (2 points), title (2 point), and era (1 point) of 8 out of 10 passages drawn from material read so far this semester. All information (first and last names) must be spelled correctly to receive full credit. (40 points)

Part II: Short Essays

You will be asked to respond to a few short questions about 3 of the 8 passages that you’ve identified. Each passage will have questions associated with it. (60 points)

The questions will ask you to closely read and analyze a work of literature, as well as make connections between it and other literature read this semester.

In order to answer some of these questions, you’ll need to employ the literary terms that we’ve learned so far this semester: essay, parallelism, rhetorical questions, the heroic couplet, alliteration, apostrophe, anaphora, metaphor and simile, and the lyric genre (inclusive of the lyric poem, the sonnet [you need to be able to describe the difference between an English Sonnet and an Italian Sonnet], and the ode [which is longer, more serious in subject matter, and more elevated in tone than other lyric forms; it also is more various in its formal structure])

Other important terms: the Enlightenment, Deism and the Great Chain of Being, the gothic, the sublime and the beautiful, the Romanticism, and the Revolutionary Controversy (i.e. “pamphlet wars” between Price, Burke, Paine, Wollstonecraft, and Godwin). We discussed these terms in class and they are also discussed in the introductory sections found in our anthologies.

Over the course of the exam, you’ll want to demonstrate breadth and depth. In other words, don’t keep writing about the same authors and works. Do not repeat yourself. You may identify more than 1 passage from the same work but you may not answer two question sets on the same text. For example, you might identify two passages drawn from Johnson’s The Vanity of Human Wishes but you cannot respond to both sets of questions.

You will need a blue or green book for the second part of the exam.