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English 2520 Survey of British Literature II Name_________________________
Final Exam
British Romantic, Victorian and Modern Writers
Directions: The following essay questions and sub-questions need to be answered
thoroughly by stating your major premise, interpretation, and evidence. Successful answers
to the questions will demonstrate direct responses to the essay questions that will include
themes, ideas, and well-selected examples from the reading selections and your critical
insight. The written responses need to reveal your understanding about important imagery,
allusions, tone, and diction in the texts.
CHOOSE TOPIC #1 OR TOPIC #2 (25 points): I chose topic 1
1. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) concerns the Romantic themes of
creation, invention, and animation. Shelley’s gothic novel utilizes overlapping levels of
narration evident in the three narrators: Robert Walton, Victor Frankenstein, and the
Creature. In 3-4 pages, you will need to consider the following:
• What is the significance of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s title Frankenstein or The
Modern Prometheus? How can Frankenstein be likened to a Byronic hero? In other
words, what is his quest? To what extent does Frankenstein fulfill his quest?
• Mary Shelley Wollstonecraft includes this epigraph from Paradise Lost beneath the
title: “Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay / To mould me
man? Did I solicit thee / From darkness to promote me?” What do these lines mean?
In other words, what sort of analogy can be drawn here between Adam and God in
comparison to the Creature and Frankenstein in this context? How does the
Creature identify himself with Adam in terms of his request? How does
Frankenstein identify himself with the “Maker”?
• After Frankenstein’s death, the Creature admits: “But I was the slave, not the
master of an impulse, which I detested, yet could not disobey” (Shelley, Norton,
1032). How would you characterize his “impulse”? Do you agree or disagree that the
Creature was a “slave” to the “impulse” that he “detested” and “could not
disobey”? Why? Or why not? Conclusions?
CHOOSE TOPIC #3 OR TOPIC #4 (25 points): I chose topic 3
3. William Butler Yeats’s lyrics Sailing to Byzantium (1926) and Byzantium (1930)
exemplify the mature stage of Yeats’s great poetry. Yeats’s images about Byzantium
constitute his attempt to create a unique vision. In 3-4 pages, you will need to consider:
• To what extent do you consider Yeats’s poems about Byzantium to be, as Paul de man
notes in “Image and Emblem in Yeats,” the “culmination and fulfillment” of the
romantic tradition” (de Man, Rhetoric of Romanticism, 149) OR an instance of a
resistance to romanticism –a sort of anti-romanticism? In other words, would you
consider Yeats to be a poet who has been influenced by romanticism? Why? How?
• What do the titles Sailing to Byzantium (1926) and Byzantium (1930) suggest? What does
the “holy city” of Byzantium represent? By “sailing the seas,” what is the speaker or
“aged man” crossing over? What does the vision of the sages in “God’s holy fire” who
“come from holy fire to be “singing masters” of the speaker’s soul suggest?
• How do you interpret the image of a golden “artificial bird” singing of “what is past, or
passing, or to come”? Do you consider these images to be romantic or anti-romantic?
Why?
THIS IS THE END OF THE FINAL EXAM. SUBMIT BOTH ESSAYS ON ONE MS
WORD FILE TO CANVAS.

Please choose from the following… one poem and one short story to critique… (2 pages)
Due 5/13
Poem choices – To Autumn (Keats), I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (Wordsworth), Design (Frost), I heard a Fly buzz when I died (Dickinson),
Dover Beach (Arnold), Ballad of Booker T. (Hughes)
Short Story choices- Cat in the Rain (Hemingway), Araby (Joyce), A Rose for Emily (Faulkner), Babylon Revisited (Fitzgerald)

Human Nature
Objectives:
Show me that you can
Engage in inquiry by doing research on the topic of human nature and how that relates to the topics and readings we’ve explored in class this semester.
Integrate textual evidence (specific details and in-text citations) to support your thesis.
Apply close reading and analytical skills to the texts you reference.
Requirements:
3-5 pages (1250 words max), typed, double-spaced, 12-pt Times New Roman, 1-inch margins
3-4 outside sources (include one of our monster readings as an outside source).
MLA format for citations. You will need a Works Cited page.
Your argumentative essay should be detailed and persuasive and include outside research to support your argument.
Your paper should be clear, logical, and well organized.
PROOFREAD! Submitting a paper with several sentence-level errors will result in a deduction of points from your final paper grade.
Assignment:
A major theme we’ve been exploring this semester is human nature. For this final assignment, you are free to choose your own topic as long as you can connect it to this theme of human nature, as well as the readings and topics we’ve covered in class. Some topics we’ve explored are gender, sexuality, identity, nature vs. nurture, horror, etc. 
As you’re deciding on your topic, reflect on our discussions of monsters and how they are personifications of our collective fears. What do monsters in particular say about our own humanity, or inhumanity? You will need to reference at least one of the monster essays we’ve read this semester.
*This is a research paper, so you will need to include multiple outside secondary sources as support.

pros and cons of educationin KZ: write short topic which consist of 14 sentences for speking 1 minute and use active vocabluary which I sent you. Topic consists of introduction firstly secondly thirdly and conclusion.
in level pre intermidiate  

Write me an essay on climate chnage and how we can solve it, with correct citation from the 3 references.

Write a five paragraph esssy on the topic ‘Silent Genocide’ in Indian horse. Include a hook aand a strong thesis statement in the introductory paragraph and an argument each for the three body paragraphs 

An important part of any course is reflection: taking time for serious thought and consideration on your learning experience. In a thorough, organized response of at least 300 words, please reflect on your experience in English 201. Address at least two of the bullet points below in your response: 
• How has your understanding of leadership grown or changed because of taking this class? For instance, who are some characters from our assigned reading who taught you the most about the value of authentic servant leadership- in either a positive or negative sense- and what did you learn from their examples? Finally, how do you think that reading literature can help someone become a more effective, empathetic leader? Be specific.  
• Now that you have completed this course, do you think that all college students should study this subject? How might this class be beneficial even for non-English majors? Could you apply anything you have learned or practiced in this class in other courses? Explain. 
• What reading, activity, or assignment helped you learn most, and why? What assignment was the most challenging for you, and why?  
• What was something the professor did in their approach to the course that you particularly liked (audio feedback on some written assignments, pilot of opening four weeks at a time, etc)? Explain.  
• Were the time management strategies you used for this class successful? Did you use any of the provided resources (such as free tutoring, the MLA Formatting & Citations Guide linked in class, the GMC Online Librarian, etc.) to help you succeed in the course? Why or why not? What might you change about your approach to improve further in future classes?
If needed, please refer to the Authentic Servant Leadership materials in Week 3.  

1350-1650 words
i will attach the story sisters by Kali Fjardo Anstine
Please make sure to solely use the source which will be the short story attached
You will write 3 papers over the course of the semester. Each will be revised from an outline and 1350-1650 words long. It will also be argumentative and evidence-based (but not research).
·   You will receive feedback on the outlines, but only the papers will be graded.
·   Each outline should consist of a thesis, topic sentences, and evidence, briefly sketched–with the exception that outlines for papers #2 and #3 should also include a full introduction. The topic sentences should be claims that support the thesis, not descriptive statements that point to what the body paragraphs will cover. (In other words, you should put together an outline only once you’ve worked out the paper’s argument.)
·  If a paper is shorter or longer than required, the grade will be reduced by 5 points.
·   Late outlines and papers will be accepted only in cases of serious emergency. Otherwise, if an assignment (an outline or a  paper) is late, the grade for the paper will be reduced by 5 points. No assignment will be accepted more than two weeks past the original deadline.
·   A virtual token can extend any assignment deadline by 48 hours. (See “Virtual Tokens” below.)
·   If you do not turn in an outline, the grade for the corresponding paper will be reduced by 10 points. If you turn in only an outline but not the corresponding paper, the grade for the paper will be an F.
·   All the papers will be based on original close readings. Do not use any sources that aren’t on the syllabus. If you do, the grade will be reduced by 10 points. If you use outside sources without citing them, the paper is plagiarized (see “Academic Integrity” below).
·   The paper prompts will be posted in the Paper Prompts folder on Blackboard (in Course Content) as well as emailed to you. You must not change prompts between a paper’s outline and its final draft. If you do, the grade will be reduced by 10 points.
·   All citations should follow MLA guidelines. (If you are not familiar with the guidelines, please see the Writing-Related Handouts folder on Blackboard / Course Content.)
·   The outlines and papers will be submitted on Blackboard, as Google Docs or Microsoft Word documents. (No PDFs, please.)

Explain how you plan to use the Belhaven library and online resources as you continue your education.

A complete (8-10 pages not including outline, title page, or works cited) research paper is required.  You are free to choose your own topic but the paper must make a point.  This means that the paper must have a narrow, focused topic that results in a final conclusion.
8-10 pages (not including title page or Works Cited)
8-10 significant sources
full MLA format (no outline or end notes required)
focused thesis that comes to a specific conclusion
remember that this a fully researched argument paper, not just a data or history report