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OLLSCOIL NA hÉIREANN, GAILLIMH NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY
SECOND SITTING EXAMINATIONS, 2010/
FIRST ARTS EXAMINATION
EN125 Introduction to English 2
Professor S. Matterson Professor H. Phillips Professor S. Ryder Professor H. McDermott Dr S. Mooney Dr S. Kavanagh Dr R. Barr
TIME ALLOWED: TWO HOURS
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 answerbooks for each part.
NB: Do not repeat substantially material already offered for
assessment elsewhere.
PART 1: Introduction to the Novel
Answer one question.
You should spend no more than ONE HOUR on this section.
- ‘The function of narrators in modern fiction is often to provide insights not offered by the rest of the narrative.’ Discuss this statement in relation to any TWO novels on the course.
- ‘Much of modern fiction is concerned with sensitive characters beleaguered by a hostile world.’ Discuss in relation to any TWO novels on the course.
- ‘Characters in modern fiction suffer the frustration of their deep-rooted desires.’ Discuss in relation to TWO novels on the course.
- ‘“No romance”, he says. “Okay?”’ ( The Handmaid’s Tale ). Compare and contrast the representation of love or romance in any TWO novels on the course.
- ‘The past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes’ ( The Handmaid’s Tale ). How do TWO of the novels on your course represent the past?
- ‘Language is power.’ Discuss this statement in relation to TWO novels on the course.
- ‘ Show me how to do like you, show me how to do it. ’ (Stevie Wonder) Discuss the significance of epigraphs in The Handmaid’s Tale and The Color Purple.
P.T.O.
Part 2: Section B
Attempt an informed reading of any ONE of the following texts, taking into
account at least ONE contextual approach which you feel to be particularly
relevant to it:
Nathaniel Hawthorne, ‘Young Goodman Brown’
Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Man of the Crowd’
Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Red-Headed League’
Alfred Lord Tennyson, ‘The Lady of Shalott’
W.B Yeats, ‘Easter, 1916’
W.B Yeats, ‘Leda and the Swan’
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