[This is the rubric for the final examination.]

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. 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 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 this 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 three passages. In a well-written essay, situate the passage in the work from which it is taken, identifying the author and title of the work, and then analyze the passage, explaining how its form and meaning are interconnected. Show how this section of the text relates thematically and structurally to the larger work from which it is taken.

[Three long passages 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.]