EH 280 Final

Open Book and Notes

 

LEGIBILITY IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY

 

General Principles:

This is a comprehensive exam.

The totality of your exam should reflect your range of reading and your depth of understanding.

 

 

Part One

 

Directions: Select two of the following three questions and spend 15 minutes each on them

 

1. Which author seemed to speak most directly to you? What allowed you to listen so well to that author?

 

2. If you were to cross gender lines and become a character, who would you become?

 

3. What author would you be? OR what author would your friends say you resembled, assuming they had also done our reading.

 

 

Part Two

 

Directions: Answer two or three of the following questions in a timely fashion. Be Insightful

 

1. We all know about Recognition (Anagnoresis) and Hamartia and Hybris. How do we see these features connected in our dramatic readings? You may focus only on tragedy or you may do comedy, or both tragedy and comedy

 

2. Many of our works celebrate the heroic and the hero. How does The Aeneid develop the nature of the hero? What kind of antagonist is Dido?

 

3. According to our authors, what gives living, and, perhaps, dying, its real meaning?

4. Literature occurs in a social context and helps shape society. How do our works inform us about the society in which they were written? [And or] how do they manifest a sense of what a good society ought to be? This is a good topic for writing about comedy and satire.

 

5. How do our readings, including Roman works, offer us insight into the world of women we encountered in our other readings?

 

6. We have talked a bit about Metonymy. How do our works help us understand the nature of objects, of things, of possessions?

 

7. Love in its various forms has been part of our reading since we began. How do some of our works show the power and danger of love?

 

8. As Gilgamesh reminds us, humans live in a world that connects them to the gods and to nature. How is that connection between humans and nature given a significant, if indirect, emphasis in our readings?

 

9. Contrast the afterlife as suggested by The Odyssey with Aeneas’ visit to the underworld in the Aeneid.

 

An extra item:

List 10 to 15 items from your notes-- ideas or definitions. Name them and give a brief capsule explanation

 


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