ENG 102:
Final Exam Questions
Take
the time to answer your questions (one from each group below) to the
best of your ability, citing specific examples from as many texts as are
relevant. You must post your answers through the “Assignments” link on the
Blackboard Course Menu by 11:59 pm, Tuesday, 10 August.
GROUP
1
Choose
one question to answer from the following:
1.
Identify three epic conventions (see Iliad notes) and demonstrate
how each effects meaning in the Iliad,
Odyssey, and at least two other texts. Use specific
textual examples.
2.
Identify a specific passage of approximately 10-20 lines in one poem we
read this semester. Take time to analyze it in terms of composition, content,
and literary devices. In other words, by looking at these specific
characteristics, what meaning do these lines imply?
3.
Considering Jacques Barzun’s “Of What Use the Classics Today,” consider how Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter and
two other texts we read fulfill Barzun’s “requirements” for the classic:
Thickness, Adaptability, and Universality (votes).
6.
Discuss Hamlet’s mental condition in terms of textual evidence. Consider
relationships, soliloquys, etc.
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