Spring 2025 FINAL EXAMINATION                            ENC…

Spring 2025 FINAL EXAMINATION                            ENC 1102-700 INSTRUCTOR’S NAME: Matthew Green GENERAL DIRECTIONS:  Write a 700-word essay of at least five paragraphs, paying careful attention to organization, grammar, formatting, and mechanics.  Be certain your essay contains an introductory paragraph (including a clearly‑stated thesis sentence), a minimum of three body paragraphs providing adequate support from the literature, and a concluding paragraph.  Your class notes, text, and a dictionary may be used.  SPECIFIC DIRECTIONS: 1. Choose one of the themes from the list below: A. Identify and Self-Discovery B. Social Justice and Equality C. Mental Health D. Power and Corruption 2. Select one short story, one drama and one poem studied in ENC 1102 which deal with the theme selected from the above list. 3. Now compose the essay discussing the literary device(s) used by the authors to develop the theme in each work. 4. Observe the conventions of the Modern Language Association style by correctly using quotes and paraphrases, avoiding plagiarism, and creating a Works Cited page.   Short Stories: “And of Clay Are We Created” “I’d Love You to Want Me” “The Black Cat” “Good People” “A Pair of Tickets” “The Birth-mark” “The Yellow Wallpaper” “The Interpreter of Maladies” Poems: “Divorce” “In Quarantine I Reflect on the Death of Ophelia” The Sky is low — the Clouds are mean” “The Ruined Maid” “I wandered lonely as a cloud” “On Being Brought from Africa to America” “Poetry” Marianne Moore “Introduction to Poetry”  “Hades Welcomes His Bride” “Googling Ourselves” “I celebrate myself and sing myself” “Dover Beach” “Persimmons” “The Flea” “To His Coy Mistress” “On Yom Kippur in 1967. . .” “The Raven” “Dover Beach” “Persimmons” “The Flea” “To His Coy Mistress” “On Yom Kippur in 1967. . .” “The Raven” “Leaving” “London” The golf links lie so near the mill” “The Red Wheelbarrow” “The Irish Were not, the Germans” “Because I could not stop for Death” “Digging” “Ode to a Grecian Urn” “The Sick Rose” “Ode to a Nightingale” “The Second Coming” “The Vacuum” “Metrical Feet” from “The Charge of the Light Brigade” “Frost at Midnight” “Punishment” “I Hear America Singing” “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” E. Cummings “in just” Sonnet 55 Plays: Trifles A Midsummer Night’s Dream A Raisin in the Sun Oedipus Tyrranos Antigone