Final Exam ENC 1102 …
Final Exam ENC 1102 Overview Write a 700-word essay of at least five paragraphs, carefully examining organization, grammar, formatting, and mechanics. Be sure your essay contains an introductory paragraph (including a clearly stated thesis sentence), a minimum of three body paragraphs providing adequate support from the literature, and a concluding paragraph. Your class notes, textbook, and a dictionary may be used. Instructions Choose one theme and a text from each unit (one story, one poem, one play). The analysis will focus on literary devices in each text and how they portray a shared theme. 1. Step one: choose a theme: (choose only one option) 2. Step two: Select one short story, one drama, and one poem studied in ENC 1102 that deal with the theme selected from the above list (remember, that means you should have a short story chosen for body paragraph 1, a poem for body paragraph 2, and a drama for body paragraph three relating each of those back to the theme or aspect you chose from above). YOUR CHOICE MUST BE TEXTS ABOUT WHICH YOU HAVE NOT PREVIOUSLY USED IN AN ESSAY. UNIT 1: Short Stories Sonny’s Blues,” by James Baldwin “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates “Barn Burning,” by William Faulkner “Good People,” by David Foster Wallace “A Pair of Tickets,” by Amy Tan “The Black Cat,” by Edgar Allan Poe “The Birth-Mark,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne “The Veldt,” by Ray Bradbury “The Yellow Wallpaper,” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves,” by Karen Russell UNIT 2: Poetry “Divorce” “Nebraska” “The Ruined Maid” “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” “On Being Brought from Africa to America” “Poetry” Marianne Moore “Hades Welcomes His Bride” “She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways” “I celebrate myself and sing myself” “Dover Beach” “Persimmons” “The Flea” “To His Coy Mistress” “On Yom Kippur in 1967. . .” “Woodchucks” “Still I Rise” “The Raven” “The golf links lie so near the mill” “The Red Wheelbarrow” “Because I could not stop for Death” “London” “Ode to Nightingale” “The Vacuum “I Hear America Singing” “Lady Lazarus” Shakespeare’s “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” UNIT 3: Drama Trifles by Susan Glaspell Fences by August Wilson A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen Antigone by Sophacles Oedipus the King by Sophocles 3. Step Three: Set up your essay in MLA formatting using an academic title, and include the device and text choice in the header. EXAMPLE:Rachael Dixon BeersProfessor BeersENC110220.11.2024 Theme: death is the fate of revengeText: Hamlet Theme in Hamlet: All Those Who Seek Revenge Seek Death 4. Step Four: Create a thesis statement. In (texts) _________, __________, and __________ the authors use (literary device/s) __________ to portray the (theme) ______________. 5. Step Five: Write a 700-word essay supporting your thesis. Checklist: Include an introductory paragraph Include body paragraphs with direct reference to the texts and textual evidence End with a conclusion paragraph Use literary devices (symbolism, figurative language, tone, mood, imagery, motif) in the analysis Proofread for correct sentence structure, grammar, word usage, and clarity (Standard American English) Format in MLA for documentation. You only need to use your textbook as a source for parenthetical in-text citations and the works cited page. No outside research is required.
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