Mid-Term Exam Review
Section 1 – Short Answer
8 questions, answer 5
Each worth 2 marks, 10 marks total
Should make about 2 marks per question, and about 2-3 sentences in length
Section 2 – Passage Analysis
6 questions, answer 4
Each worth 5 marks, 20 marks total
Should make about 5 marks per question, and about 1-2 paragraphs in length
Best way to answer these questions is to focus in on specific aspects of the passage like themes, ideas, concepts, metaphors, analogies, etc. and discuss them at length within the context of the quote and the larger work.
Section 3 – Essay
3 questions, answer only 1
Worth 20 marks total
Structure of the essay should be similar to how to wrote your previous essay. Should include examples from the text wherever necessary. Should be about 2-3 pages in length (double-spaced).
How to Ruin Everything (George Watsky)
“Tusk”
“Fa Kieu”
“Crying & Baseball”
“What Year Is It?”
Short Stories
“Bartelby, the Scrivener” (Herman Melville)
“The Garden Party” (Katherine Mansfield)
“Young Goodman Brown” (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
“The Story of an Hour” (Kate Chopin)
“The Cask of Amontillado” (Edgar Allan Poe)
“The Shawl” (Cynthia Ozick)
“The Lady with the Dog” (Anton Chekhov)
“A Good Man is Hard to Find” (Flannery O’Connor)
Texts NOT on the Mid-Term:
So, Where is Your Thesis?
Practical Grammar
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