loadingFinal Examination for English Literature (2012-2013)
I. Multiple Choices (25*1=25%)
II.Definition (5*3=15%) (5 out of the following 10 terms will be tested)
1) Heroic Couplet 2) Blank verse 3) Tragedy 4) Soliloquy 5) Epic 6) Ode 7) Sonnet 8) Lyric
9) Gothic Novel
10) Stream of Consciousness
III. Appreciation (30%) Paraphrase the text and answer a question (80 words).
(2 of the following 8 texts will be tested, students can freely choose ONE of the two to write on)
1) Chaucer: “The Prioress” (P6-7)
2) Shakespeare: Hamlet’s soliloquy (P32-33) 3) Shakespeare: Sonnet18 (P59)
4) Francis Bacon: “Of Studies”(P53-54)
5) John Milton: Paradise Lost(Extract1&2)(P69-70)
6) Alexander Pope: An Essay on Man (Extract 1&2)(P94-95) 7) William Wordsworth: “I wandered lonely as a Cloud”(P109) 8) William Wordsworth: “The World is Too Much with Us”(P 122)
IV. Critical Reading (30%)
Read the following fictional excerpt and answer the question in essay form (150-200words).
(Text (a short story) chosen from external resources)