English

ENG 102: English Composition II

(Each answer in Parts A.-D. of the exam is worth 1 point, for a total of 60 points. The essay in Part E. is worth 40 points.)

A. Literary terms: From the list of drama and poetry terms, write the term which is illustrated in each example below. Pay attention to bold-faced type. (No term is used more than once.)

sonnet meter foot octave sestet quatrain

couplet rhythm assonance alliteration villanelle tercet

haiku blank verse free verse imagery metaphor simile

hyperbole apostrophe satire figurative language pathos rhyme scheme

iambic pentameter personification Italian sonnet English sonnet hubris

stage directions tragedy enjambment tragic hero internal rhyme

1. "Because the Holy Ghost over the bent

World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings."

1. _______________________

2. “. . . I see him there

Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top

In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.”

2. _______________________

3. “When I heard the learn'd astronomer,

When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me . . .” (type of verse)

3. _______________________

4. “Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree,

Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one,

Yet knows its boughs more silent than before . . .”

4. _______________________

5. "Something there is that doesn't love a wall,

That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,

And spills the upper boulder in the sun;

And makes gaps even two can pass abreast." (type of meter)

5. _______________________

6. “It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil

Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?”

6. _______________________

7. Willy Loman’s repeated assertion to Charley: “I’ve got a job.”

7. _______________________

8. “. . . And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil . . .”

8. _______________________

9. “So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

   So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.” (Identify just what these lines are, not the type of poem.)

9. _______________________

10. “(Their eyes meet. A look of growing comprehension, of horror. Steps are heard outside. MRS HALE slips box under quilt pieces, and sinks into her chair. Enter SHERIFF and COUNTY ATTORNEY. MRS PETERS rises.)”

10. _______________________

B. Trifles: In the spaces before each number, write the letter of the item that corresponds to each description below. Each letter is used once.

a. Mr. Hale f. Mrs. Wright k. broken birdcage b. Mrs. Hale g. Sheriff Peters l. uneven sewing c. dead canary h. Mrs. Peters m. Minnie Foster d. debt i. County Attorney n. the title, Trifles

e. party telephone j. singing o. broken jars of fruit preserves

____ 1. what Mr. Hale had come to discuss with John Wright when he learned of Wright’s death

____ 2. character who declares that Mrs. Wright is a poor housekeeper because of the dirty towels in the kitchen

____ 3. what Mr. Wright lacks, leading Mrs. Peters to believe he is a “good” man

____ 4. youthful interest of Mrs. Wright that connects her to the bird

____ 5. character who wishes she had come to see Mrs. Wright more often

____ 6. character who never actually appears in the play

____ 7. evidence which would have provided a definitive motive for Mrs. Wright to have killed her husband

____ 8. character who is initially inclined to side with the law, but ultimately protects Mrs. Wright

____ 9. ridicules women for “worrying over trifles”

____ 10. law official who initially responded to the Wrights’ house to investigate the murder

____ 11. symbol of the cold Wright household

____ 12. symbol of men’s attempt to dismiss women’s concerns

____ 13. symbol of Mrs. Wright’s oppressive marriage from which she finally breaks free

____ 14. symbol of Mrs. Wright’s agitation

____ 15. symbol of Mrs. Wright’s totally different identity before she was married

C. Death of a Salesman: In the spaces before each number, write the letter of the item (person, place, or thing) that corresponds to each description below. Each letter is used once.

a. “a $20,000 proposition i. tape recorder

b. Uncle Ben j. University of Virginia sneakers

c. Happy k. rubber pipe

d. nylon stockings l. jail

e. the Woman m. planting seeds

f. Bernard n. New York

g. Mr. Birnbaum o. Bill Oliver

h. apartment buildings

____ 1. what Willy hates to see Linda mending because of his own guilt

____ 2. what Linda finds in the cellar, indicating that Willy has been trying to kill himself

____ 3. the location (city) of most of the action in Death of a Salesman

____ 4. where Biff was for three months when he had no address

____ 5. Biff’s former boss, who he foolishly thinks will financially back a business venture

____ 6. the minor character who represents Willy's ideal of great material success with

minimal effort, and whom Willy regrets not following

____ 7. grows up to have two sons like Willy, further emphasizing Willy’s personal failure

____ 8. what Biff burned in the furnace, indicating to Bernard that "he'd given up his life"

____ 9. math teacher who Willy mistakenly believes “ruined [Biff’s] life

____ 10. the character who, at the end of the play, still believes in Willy's dream "to come

out number-one man"

____ 11. what surrounds the Loman home, symbolizing the changing socio-economic times

that have left Willy behind

____ 12. symbol of life insurance policy

____ 13. symbol of Willy’s cheating, which influences similar behavior patterns in his two sons

____ 14. “new invention” which Howard Wagner plays with when Willy comes to see him,

symbolizing the impersonality of the modern business world

____ 15. what Willy does in the garden near the end of the play, symbolizing his desperate

attempt to leave something tangible for his family

D. Quotations: Identify the source (title) and the speaker (character who says it) of each quotation below:

1. "When I was a girl—my kitten—there was a boy took a hatchet, and before my eyes—and before I could get there— . . . If they hadn’t held me back, I would have— . . . hurt him."

1. Title: ______________________________

Speaker: ______________________________

2. “I know how things can be—for women. . . . We live close together and we live far apart. We all go through the same things—it’s all just a different kind of the same thing.”

2. Title: ______________________________

Speaker: ______________________________

3. “. . . it’s all perfectly clear except a reason for doing it. But you know juries when it comes to women. If there was some definite thing. Something to show—something to make a story about it—a thing that would connect up with this strange way of doing it—”

3. Title: ______________________________

Speaker: ______________________________

4. “I am not a leader of men, Willy, and neither are you.”

4. Title: ______________________________

Speaker: ______________________________

5. “He will not go behind his father's saying,

And he likes having thought of it so well

He says again, ‘Good fences make good neighbours.’”

5. Title: ______________________________

Speaker: ______________________________

6. “‘He died of a rope round his neck . . .’”

6. Title: ______________________________

Speaker: ______________________________

7. “His name was never in the paper. He’s not the finest character that ever lived. But he’s a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He’s not to be allowed to fall into his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must be finally paid to such a person.”

7. Title: ______________________________

Speaker: ______________________________

8. “I cannot say what loves have come and gone,

I only know that summer sang in me

A little while, that in me sings no more.”

8. Title: ______________________________

Speaker: ______________________________

9. "That's just what I mean. Bernard can get the best marks in school, y'understand, but when he gets out in the business world, y'understand, you are going to be five times ahead of him. That's why I thank Almighty God you're both built like Adonises. Because the man who makes an appearance in the business world, the man who creates personal interest, is the man who gets ahead."

9. Title: ______________________________

Speaker: ______________________________

10. “. . . How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,

Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself,

In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,

Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.”

10. Title: ______________________________

Speaker: _____________________________

E. Essay: (40 pts.)

Instructions: Choose Two of the following essay questions. You should use your textbook, study questions, and class/lecture notes, but do not use any outside sources. It is your ideas that interest me. This should be a five-paragraph essay with an introductory paragraph, three body paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph. Be sure to support all of your ideas with specific examples and/or quotes from the works in question; use at least one quotation in each body paragraph. Cite all quotations properly in the text of the paper, but you do not need to include a Works Cited page at the end this time.

Question #1

Several of the works we have read portray troubled or broken marriages. Mrs. Wright in Trifles, Linda in Death of a Salesman, Mrs. Mallard in “The Story of an Hour,” the American wife in “Cat in the Rain,” and Mrs. Das in “Interpreter of Maladies” all endure much as a result of their marriages. Choose any three of these women, and discuss the problems that resulted from her marriage, how she handles them, and whether her choices/actions solve her problems.

Question #2

Guilt is a powerful emotion that has the capacity to destroy someone who does not come to terms with it. For each of the following characters, discuss the reason for his guilt, how it affects him, and whether he accepts, overcomes, or is destroyed by guilt: Montresor in "The Cask of Amontillado"; Lyman in "The Red Convertible"; Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman.

Question #3

In literature as in life, sibling relationships are based on a deep connection, but the close family bond is often complicated by outside circumstances or conflicting feelings such as resentment, anger, and guilt. The success or happiness of one sibling sometimes comes at the expense of the other. Discuss the following sibling relationships: Biff and Happy in Death of a Salesman, Lyman and Henry in "The Red Convertible," and Sister and Stella-Rondo in “Why I Live at the P.O.” For each relationship, discuss the siblings' feelings for each other, whether one succeeds more than the other, and the reasons for that outcome.

Question #4

Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” Frost’s “Mending Wall,” Updike’s “Icarus”, Glaspell’s Trifles, and Miller’s Death of a Salesman all examine the artificial barriers that people construct between each other. For any three of these works, discuss the nature of the walls, the reason(s) people create them, and the consequences of such divisions.

Question #5

The desire for revenge is the driving force in works such as “The Cask of Amontillado,” “A Rose for Emily,” “Why I Live at the P.O.,” Trifles, and Death of a Salesman. For any three of these works, discuss the central character’s motive for seeking revenge, the effect that this goal has on his/her thoughts and actions, and whether he/she succeeds in this purpose.

Question #6

Several course readings portray children as casualties of selfish, irresponsible adults who provide poor parental guidance and support. For any three of the following works, discuss the nature of the parent’s failure, the motivation for the parent’s choices/actions, and the negative consequences for the child/children: Miller’s Death of a Salesman, Lahiri’s “Interpreter of Maladies,” Danticat’s “A Wall of Fire Rising,” and Morrison’s “Recitatif.”

Write essay on questios # ______ below: (Fill in number that you have selected.)

Of all the literary works that we read this semester, briefly discuss how this each of the story had the greatest impact on you , and explain why.

C The Cask of Amontillado by Poe and The Birth-Mark’ by Hawthorne

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