Schwarz Final Exam Essay Possibilities: 11Th Grade Honors English

Schwarz Final Exam 2013 Essay Possibilities: 11th Grade Honors English

You will write five-paragraph essays on two prompts (12.5 points each) in the blue book(s) provided. I will choose which two the day of the exam, so prepare for all five!

1. From the selected stories from James Joyce’s Dubliners that we read (you may include characters from others Dubliners stories that were not assigned in class), which characters have stunted artistic impulses? In which characters could this sense of unattained beauty (through art, music, or writing) be realized? 2. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats—the poets of the Romantic Age—pioneered a new kind of lyric poetry to express their observations, thoughts, and feelings. In a five paragraph informative essay, define lyric poetry with respect to the Romantic poets’ intentions and comment upon several examples from each of the poets to justify your definition 3. Explain in a five paragraph persuasive essay the significance of the title, Night, particularly as it applies to emotional, theological, and moral themes. In the process refer to specific scenes and examples from the novel and analyze how these themes and examples create the mood that Wiesel constructs in Night. Propose other titles that might be as effective. 4. Comment about the theme of appearance versus reality in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Be sure to reference specific character and action from the play. 5. Choose one of the poets (other than John Donne) from the text unit on 17th/18th Century poets and write a five-paragraph explication of the work(s) by the poet. Be sure to refer to specific lines, images, themes, and conceits, and be sure to write five complete and developed paragraphs. Your choices in historical order are: Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell, Robert Herrick, Sir John Suckling, John Milton, Amelia Lanier, Richard Lovelace, or Alexander Pope.