English 101 Exam Workshop

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English 101 Exam Workshop
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How to Read Novels

• There is no single way to read a novel.
  Readers brings different methods, ideologies, and
  cultural backgrounds to the reading experience.
• Advanced English classes will introduce you
  to different schools of criticism Marxism,
  poststructuralism, postcolonialism, feminism,
  cultural materialism, new historicism)
• Here are some different points of entry into
  a novel that we have explored in this class and
  that will be useful as you prepare for the final
  exam essay question.

1.      Themes  2.      Point of View   3.     
Narrative Structure   4.      Intertextuality
Intermediation 5.      Literary
Marketplace  6.      Politics/Culture/Economics
7.      Literary Taste
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Section 2Sample Passage
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Section 2Sample Passage
A good archaeologist can read a bucket of soil as
if it were a complex historical novel. If a bone
had been grazed by any kind of stone, Sarath, she
knew, could follow such grains of evidence to
their likely origin. As she had taken the few
fragments of the damaged section of sailors
skull and reconstructed it with a glue gun. But
in Colombo she couldnt locate half the equipment
she and Sarath really needed, equipment they had
in excess in America. It would be picks and
shovels, strings and stones. Shed gone to
Cargills department store and picked up a couple
of shaving brushes and a whisk,
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Section 2Sample Passage
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Section ASample Questions
1. What is the Man Booker Prize? 2. Who is
Tomislav Torjanac?3. What is Dvorak's
Rusalka?4. What is a close reading? 5. What
is a heterotopia? 6. What is metonymy?
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Section cSample Essay Questions
1. What is the measure of a great book, one that
will be read and taught fifty years from now
easily digestible, readily adaptable, profound?
Will the novels that we have studied in this
course become classics? Discuss TWO novels and,
in your answer, draw specific examples from the
books and, perhaps, from the larger cultural
sphere.