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Autumn Examinations 2011 / 2012
Exam Code(s) 1BA1; 10A5; 1BA11; 1BA7; 1BCW1; 1BFS1; 1BHR1; 1BIS1; 1BLS1; 1BTP1; 1BWN
Exam(s) 1st Arts
Module Code(s) EN Module(s) Introduction to English 2
Paper No. I
External Examiner(s) Professor S. Matterson Professor H. Phillips Internal Examiner(s) Professor S. Ryder Professor Hubert McDermott *Dr Rebecca Barr *Dr Cliodhna Carney Dr Stephen Kavanagh
Instructions: This exam paper has two parts: Part 1:^ Introduction to the Novel
and Part 2: Texts and Contexts****. You must answer questions in BOTH parts. Use separate answer books for each part. NB: Do not repeat substantially material already offered for assessment elsewhere.
Duration 2hrs
No. of Pages 2 Discipline(s) English
Requirements None
Section 1: Introduction to the Novel Answer ONE question from this section
1. Modern fiction deals with the futility of attempting to escape from loneliness, isolation. Discuss, in relation to any two novels on your course. 2. Write on ‘the need to claim identity and belong’ in any two of the novels on your course 3. Write on the theme of ‘emotional turbulence’ in any two of the novels on your course. 4. Compare and contrast the narrative voices of any two first person novels on the course. 5. ‘You better not never tell nobody but God. It’d kill your mammy.' ( The Color Purple ). Write on violence and the dysfunctional family in any two of the novels on the course. 6. 'History is always a question of interpretation.’ Discuss this statement with reference to two of the novels on the course.
Section 2: Texts and Contexts Answer ONE of the following questions.
1. Undertake a close reading of one of the poems below. What can and cannot be accomplished in a close reading?
(a) Fire and Ice -- Robert Frost
Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.
PTO
