English
201: Writing and Literary Studies II
Sample
201 Midterm Examination
Possible Essay Prompts for this midterm
ANCIENT:
Homer's The
Odyssey
Sappho's poetry
and fragments
Genesis Excerpts
Job Excerpts
Psalms Excerpts (not covered this term)
Plato's "Allegory
of the Cave"
Sophocles' Oedipus Rex
Sophocles' Antigonê
Virgil's Aeneid
Saint Augustine's
Confessions
MEDIEVAL:
Beowulf
Anglo-Saxon Riddles
The Wife's Lament (not covered this term)
Excerpts from Dante's Inferno
Chaucer's The
General Prologue (first half)
Chaucer's The
General Prologue (second half)
Chaucer's Wife
of Bath's Prologue
Chaucer's The
Wife of Bath's Tale
Excerpts from Julian of Norwich's Revelations
of Divine Love
Excerpts from Margery Kempe's The
Book of Margery Kempe
Sir Gawain and
the Green Knight (Part I)
Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight (Part II)
Sir Gawain and
the Green Knight (Part III)
Sir Gawain and
the Green Knight (Part IV)
RENAISSANCE:
Petrarch's
Sonnet #3
Shakespeare's Sonnet
Selections
Excerpts from Aemilia Lanyer's Salve
Deus, Rex Judaeorum.
Queen Elizabeth's Selections (not covered this term)
Shakespeare's Hamlet
Shakespeare's King Lear
John Donne's "The Flea," "A Valediction: Forbidding
Mourning," and Meditation 17.
Milton, Areopagitica
and Paradise Lost
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English 328:
Advanced Grammar, Composition, and History of the
English Language (History Component).
328
Final Study Guide
Sample Final Examinations from
Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007
Dates Every
Student in English 328 Should Know
Baugh, Chapter One
Baugh, Chapter Two
Baugh, Chapter Three
Baugh, Chapter Four
Baugh, Chapter Five
Baugh, Chapter Six
Baugh, Chapter Seven
Baugh, Chapter Eight
Midterm
Baugh, Chapter Nine
Baugh, Chapter Ten
Baugh, Chapter Eleven
English 328: Advanced Grammar, Composition,
and History of the English Language (Grammar Component)
Diagramming Sentences in
Kolln and Funk
Kolln, Chapter One
Kolln, Chapter Two
Kolln, Chapter Three
Kolln, Chapter Four
Kolln, Chapter Five
Kolln, Chapter Six
Kolln, Chapter Seven
Kolln, Chapter Eight
 Kolln, Chapter
Nine
Lord of the Rings Diagramming
Quiz (PDF file)
Diagram like a Roman! (PDF
file) |
English
301: Writing and Literary Studies III (incomplete:
under construction!)
Sample 301 Midterm
Examination (offline)
Sample
301 Final from previous year (offline)
Study
Guide and Possible Prompts (offline)
RESTORATION AND ENLIGHTENMENT
Pope, An
Essay on Man
Pope, The Rape of the Lock
Kant, "What is Enlightenment?"
Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Part
III
Swift, "A Modest Proposal"
Voltaire, Candide
Astell, "A Serious Proposal to the Ladies"
Montague, "To the Countess of Bute"
Montague,"Selected Turkish Embassy Letters"
Wollstonecraft, A
Vindication of the Rights of Woman (TBA)
Rowlandson, "A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson"
ROMANTIC PERIOD / TRANSCENDENTALISM
John Keats, various poems
Samuel Coleridge, "Kubla
Khan"
Thoreau, "Walden"
Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brown"
Walt
Whitman, Song
of Myself
Emily Dickinson, various
poems
LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Crane, "The
Open Boat."
Tennyson's "Ulysses"
Yeats, various
poems
Owen, "Dulce et Decorum Est"
MODERNISM AND POSTMODERNISM:
Hemingway, "A
Clean Well-Lighted Place"
T.S.
Eliot, "The
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
Joyce, "The Dead"
Hurston, "Sweat"
Louise Erdrich, "The Red
Convertible" |
English
362: Survey of Early British Literature (note:
Many of these study questions are based on the
Norton edition. We will be using the Longman
anthology this term, so certain discrepancies
may appear in the wording of quotations and translations.)
Sample midterm examination from last year
Dates
Every Brit Lit Student Should Know
Bede, "Caedmon's
Hymn"
Anonymous, "The
Wanderer"
Anonymous,
Beowulf: Part I
Anonymous, Beowulf:
Part II
Anonymous,
Beowulf: Part III
Anonymous, "The
Dream of the Rood"
Anonymous, "The
Battle of Maldon"
Anonymous, "Judith" (Longman Anthology)
Anonymous, "Wulf and Eadwacer" and "The Wife's Lament"
Marie de France, "Lanval"
Marie de France, "Fables" (not
covered this term)
Marie de France, "Bisclavret"
Marie de France, "Equitan"
"Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed" from The Mabinogion
"Branwen, Daughter of Llyr" from The Mabinogion
"Lludd and Lleuelys" from The Mabinogion (not
covered
this term)
Taliesin
Dafydd ap Gwilym, various readings
Chaucer's General Prologue, First
Half
Chaucer's General Prologue, Second Half
Chaucer's Miller's Prologue and Tale
Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale
Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale (Longman edition)
Chaucer's Retraction
Langland, Piers Plowman (not
covered this term)
Anonymous, Middle English Lyrics
Anonymous, "Exile of the Sons of Uisliu" from The Táin (not
covered this term)
Before The Táin Bó Cuialnge (Kinsella translation, pp. 1-50)
The Táin Bó Cuialnge (First Half)
Excerpts from "The Ancrene Riwle" (not covered this term)
Julian of Norwich, A Book of Showings (not covered this term)
Margey Kempe, The Book of
Margery Kempe (not covered this term)
The Wakefield Master's Second Shepherd's
Play
Everyman (not covered
this term)
Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur
Spenser's The Fairy Queene, Book 1, Cantos I-IV,
Spenser's The Fairy Queene, Book 1, Cantos V-VIII.
Castiglione's The Courtier (not covered this term)
Marlowe's The Tragical History
of Doctor Faustus
John Donne Readings #2: "The
Flea," and "Valediction Forbidding Mourning," and Meditation 17
Shakespeare Sonnets
Shakespeare, King Lear
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Robert Herrick, Readings
George Herbert, Readings (TBA)
Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress"
Milton, Various Longer Readings (Areopagitica,
Paradise Lost)
Milton, "When
I Consider How My Light is Spent" (not covered this term)
Milton, Paradise Lost I-II
Milton, Paradise Lost V-VIII (TBA)
Milton, Paradise Lost IX-X (TBA)
Milton, Paradise Lost XII (TBA)
Aphra Behn, "The Disappointment" and Oronooko
Pepys' Diary
Kant, "What
is Enlightenment?" (text available as
a PDF
handout or on Blackboard
Pope: Rape
of the Lock
Swift, "A
Modest Proposal"
Swift, "Abolishing
Christianity" (not covered this term)
Swift, Gulliver's
Travels, Part
3 (TBA)
Swift, Gulliver's
Travels, Part 4 (TBA)
Steel,
excerpts from The Tatler (TBA)
Addison
excerpts from The Spectator (TBA)
Johnson,
excerpts from The Rambler (TBA)
Samuel
Johnson's Dictionary excerpts (TBA)
Thompson's "Ode:
Rule Brittania" (not
covered this term)
Gray, "Elegy
Written in a Country Churchyard" (not covered this term) |
