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Philadelphia University

Faculty of Arts

Department of English

Examination Sheet

PART 1:

A : Information

Student's No. : / Name: Student's
Academic year : / Semester:
Module No: / Module Title : Introduction to Literature / Tutor's Name: Dr. Mohammad Aljayyousi
Day: Thursday / Date: 5/2/2014 / Time: 11:30 – 1:30
Examination: 1st 2nd Final
-The exam consists of four categories and the total mark is (40).
- Each question has its own mark.
-The answer must be written clearly.
C. Exam Questions, Grades and Time Allocated for Each Question:
Question / Minutes / Total point / Points Earned
1. / 30 / 10
2. / 20 / 8
3. / 30 / 12
4. / 10 / 10
5.
Total / 90 / 40

D- Student Comments on the Questions ( If any )

E- Tutor's Remarks:

PART II : Questions

FIRST Category :Knowledge and Understanding
The aim of these questions is to asses the basic knowledge and skills the student acquired.

Question (I)

Define the following terms: (10 points)

POV, Soliloquy, the protagonist, the foil character, Alliteration

Question II

Based on our discussions and readings during the course, define literature and its three major genres showing the distinctive features of each one. (8 points)

Intellectual Skills

Second Category : (Cognitive and Analytical)
The aim of these questions is to assess the students’ ability to recognize and analyze information.

Question (III)

In a well-organized essay, discuss the play, "Time Flies", and talk about the following: (12 points)

A.  The elements of drama in the play (what makes this text a drama).

B.  The characters: Horace, May, and David Attenborough, and what they symbolize.

C.  The plot structure and the main events.

D.  The ending.

E.  Some of the themes discussed in the play.

Question IV:

The following questions are about the poems on the last page: (10 points)

1.  Who is the persona in the poem "Is my Team Plowing"?

2.  Discuss the theme of the poem, ""Mirror".

3.  What is the main figure of speech in "there is no Frigate like a Book"? Explain.

4.  Discuss the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet.

5.  Find one example of the following (from any poem):

A.  A metaphor

B.  Personification

C.  Alliteration

D.  Rhyme scheme.

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date.

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimmed;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,

When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st.

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Mirror
I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
What ever you see I swallow immediately
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.
I am not cruel, only truthful---
The eye of a little god, four-cornered.
Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.
It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long
I think it is a part of my heart. But it flickers.
Faces and darkness separate us over and over.
Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me,
Searching my reaches for what she really is.
Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.
I see her back, and reflect it faithfully.
She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.
I am important to her. She comes and goes.
Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.
In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman
Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.
There is no frigate like a book

There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a page
Of prancing poetry.
This traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of toll;
How frugal is the chariot
That bears a human soul!

"Is my team ploughing..."
by A. E. Housman (1859-1936)

'Is my team ploughing,
That I was used to drive
And hear the harness jingle
When I was man alive?'

Ay, the horses trample,
The harness jingles now;
No change though you lie under
The land you used to plough.

'Is football playing
Along the river shore,
With lads to chase the leather,
Now I stand up no more?'

Ay, the ball is flying,
The lads play heart and soul;
The goal stands up, the keeper
Stands up to keep the goal.

'Is my girl happy,
That I thought hard to leave,
And has she tired of weeping
As she lies down at eve?'

Ay, she lies down lightly,
She lies not down to weep:
Your girl is well contented.
Be still, my lad, and sleep.

'Is my friend hearty,
Now I am thin and pine,
And has he found to sleep in
A better bed than mine?'

Yes, lad, I lie easy,
I lie as lads would choose;
I cheer a dead man's sweetheart,
Never ask me whose.

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