[This is the rubric for the final examination.]

This examination has two sections. Choose one question from Part A and 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.

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 ELECTRONIC MEDIA, TEXTBOOKS, DICTIONARIES, AND NOTES IS NOT PERMITTED.

SECTION A (40 points, 60 minutes)

Choose one of the following three 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 you've chosen relates thematically and structurally to the larger work from which it is taken, or to compare it briefly to another text (or song, or television program) on the course syllabus.

[Three texts follow.]

SECTION B (60 points, 75 minutes)

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

[Four questions follow, each of which asks you to discuss three different bodies of work (songs, essays, novel, memoir, television program) of your own choosing from the course syllabus.]

15 minutes for proofreading and editing.