ENGLISH 212 FINAL EXAM

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Discuss foreshadowing in Chinua Achebe’sThings Fall Apart. Briefly define the term “foreshadowing,” and give some examples of how this literary device works in the novel. Would you say that most of your examples lead to disappointing or negative outcomes? Do any examples lead to positive outcomes?

Select one quotefrom the three examples below. Give the letter of the quote at the beginning of your discussion (don’t copy the quote). Identify the work, its author, the approximate date of the work, who is speaking, to whom he or she is speaking (if applicable), and the significance of the quote to the work as a whole. Write about 250 words.

“Naw, now Syke, don’t keep dat thing ’roun’ heah tuh skeer me tuh death. You knows Ah’m even feared uh earth worms. Thass the biggest snake Ah evah did see. Kill ’im Syke, please."


erm definitions:  From this list of six literary terms, select two terms. Define these two terms briefly in your own words and give oneexample for each term from a work read during the second half of the course: the poems of Blake or Wordsworth, Gilman’s “Wallpaper,” Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own,” Hurston’s “Sweat,” Walker’s “Mothers’ Gardens,” Baldwin’s “Native Son,” Chekhov’s “The Lady with the Dog,” and Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. Explain how the literary terms are relevant to your examples.Your two answers should be one paragraph (about 100 words) each. Begin by writing the term and the definition, then give the example.

Ambiguity                Nonfiction essay

Literary allusion    Rest cure

Rhyme scheme    Southern dialect

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