[This is the rubric for the final examination.]

[The exam will take place on Wednesday, April 13, 2016, at 8:30 am in ANGU 098.]

This examination consists of three sections. Answer the question in Part A, choose one question from Part B and one question from Part C. The value of each question is listed with the suggested time for its completion. Please read the examination through before you write.

Each essay will be judged for its focus on the topic, its structure, its specific content, and its overall control of language and mechanics.

Please write in ink, on one side of the page only, and on alternate lines.

Proof-read your paper before handing it in.

THIS IS A CLOSED BOOK EXAMINATION. THE USE OF TEXTS, DICTIONARIES, AND NOTES IS NOT PERMITTED.

SECTION A (30 points, 45 minutes)

Choose six of the following ten passages. In a well-written paragraph for each passage you choose, identify the author and title of the text from which the passage is taken, then describe one important feature of literary form or style and one key theme in the passage, and explain their significance.

[Ten short passages follow.]

SECTION B (30 points, 45 minutes)

Choose one of the following two texts. In a well-written essay, give a close reading of the text, analyzing form and language, and explaining how its structure and meaning are interconnected. You may also wish to show how this section of the text relates thematically and structurally to the larger work from which it is taken, or to compare it briefly to another text on the course syllabus.

[Two texts follow.]

SECTION C (40 points, 60 minutes)

Write a concise, carefully-argued essay on one of the following topics. Please do not repeat your term paper.

[Four questions follow, each of which asks you to discuss the work of three writers on the course syllabus. Because we haven't discussed his work in your previous assignments, there is some emphasis on the writing of Fred Wah.]