[This is the rubric for the final examination.]

This examination consists of two sections. Answer the question in Part A, choose one question from Part B. 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. Avoid plot summary in your answers. The use of dictionaries and electronic devices is not permitted.

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 (40 points, 50 minutes)

Choose five of the following eight passages. In one or two well-written paragraphs for each passage you choose, identify the author and title of the work 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.

[Eight short passages follow.]

SECTION B (60 points, 70 minutes)

Write a concise, carefully-argued essay on one of the following topics.

[Four questions follow, each of which asks you to discuss the work of three of the principal writers or artists on the course syllabus.]

You have thirty additional minutes to edit and proofread your work.