Here's some review information for the final exam for English 212.
Part I: Definitions (30 points)
You must define these terms and give an example, preferably from a work read during the semester. You'll be given 15 terms and asked to identify 10 terms. Here is a sample
list of terms:
Allegory, Allusion, Antagonist, Archetype, Chorus, Climax, Comedy, Conflict, Couplet, Feminism, Flashback, Foil Characters, Foreshadowing, Frame Story, Free Verse, Greek
Tragedy, Hamartia, Harlem Renaissance, Hubris, Imagery, Irony, Lyric, Narration, Personification, Point of View, Post-colonialism, Protagonist, Proverb, Rhyme Scheme,
Sonnet, Stage Directions, Symbolism, Theme, Tragic hero
Part II: Quote identification (30 points)
Identify the title and author of the work, the date of publication, who is speaking and to whom or about what, and the significance of the quote to the literary work.
You should write about two paragraphs on each quote in which they focus on analyzing the quote and explaining its significance to the work as a whole. Out of the five quotations
given on the exam, select three to identify and analyze.
Oedipus the King, Sophocles (430 B.C.)
Inferno, Dante Alighieri (1320)
The Thousand and One Night, Anonymous (14th Century)
"The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale", The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer (1400)
"The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale", The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer (1400)
"Three Spinners", Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (1812)
"The Spirit in the Glass Bottle", Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (1812)
"America", Claude McKay (1921)
"Mother to Son", Langston Hughes (1922)
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe (1958)
Part III: Short Essay (40 points)
nalure. You should write a well-organized essay (about 500 words) and use textual evidence (with proper citations) from the story/p