ENG 1001: Final Exam
The final exam will consist of ONE ESSAY QUESTION to be chosen from the following list. Begin your answer with a general statement that answers the question presented (this is your claim/thesis). Support this statement with examples from the text(s) under discussion and analysis of each example (Support your assertions with evidence from each text and explain each example’s relevance to your claim/thesis). Be sure to cite quoted lines and complete a works cited page. Write in complete sentences shaping your response in essay form. Please give your essay a title. All answers should be typed and double-spaced, a min. of 4 FULL pages up to 6 pages, likely you will want to be closer to 5). Your answers should be presented in formal essay form with an introduction, body, and conclusion. What you are presenting is formal literary criticism, so all the rules that typical apply to that type of writing apply here as well (no first person, no contraction, no personal pronouns, no plot summary, etc.). Essentially, this essay is the same type of critical analysis essay that you have written all term, and the same rules apply.
CHOOSE ONE:
1. Using FOUR representative texts that we have examined as a class this term, explore the relationship between the ideas of embodiment/disembodiment and power/desire within each text. Write a paper that explores how the dynamic between each pair of ideas affects the plot and character development in each fiction/drama text and explain how they are thematically important to a poem. One of the texts that you use MUST be Margaret Edson's Wit, one must be a short story, and one must be a poem. The fourth text can be from any genre (fiction, poetry, or drama).
2. To be flawed is to be human, yet we often find ourselves struggling with the ideal of perfection. This conflict is examined in many of the texts that we have studied this term. Write a paper that explores the connection between our fundamentally flawed nature, our need for perfection, and the ideas of change, acceptance, and resistance. You must use FOUR texts in your response. One of the texts that you use MUST be Margaret Edson's Wit, one must be a short story, and one must be a poem. The fourth text can be from any genre (fiction, poetry, or drama).
3. Many of the texts that we have examined this term, explore the nature of the relationship between the ideas of attachment (not wanting to be separated from someone or something) and detachment (freeing oneself from such desires). Writer a paper that explores this relationship between attachment/detachment and its connection to the idea of suffering. You must use FOUR texts in your response. One of the texts that you use MUST be Margaret Edson's Wit, one must be a short story, and one must be a poem. The fourth text can be from any genre (fiction, poetry, or drama).
REMINDERS:
- Be sure you have a clear claim that addresses the concerns of the prompt and that you state this claim in one clear, concise sentence.
- Be sure that this claim is placed in your intro and that its restatement is placed in the conclusion.
- Include quotes from the texts under discussion to support your argument. Introduce and provide context for these quotes and explain how they illustrate the point you are attempting to make.
- Explain how each example is related to your claim.
- Remember that you are writing for an academic, scholarly audience that has read and is familiar with the content of each text. Do not use first person, personal pronouns (you, we, us, me, my, mine, our, ours), or slang of any type.
- Include a one page typed reflection with the final draft of your exam. Upload both to Ulearn as ONE Microsoft Word fiile.
