Question #2 (Suggested Time: 40 Minutes)

Read the following poem carefully. Then, taking into consideration the title of the poem, analyze how the poetic devices convey the speaker's attitude toward the the sinking of the ship "The Confluence of the Twain" by Thomas Hardy (lines on the loss of the Titanic) I In a solitude of the sea Deep from human vanity, And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she. II Steel chambers, late the pyres Of her salamandrine fires, Cold currents thrid, and turn to rhythmic tidal lyres. III Over the mirrors meant To glass the opulent The sea-worm crawls-grotesque, slimed, dumb, indifferent. IV Jewels in joy designed To ravish the sensuous mind Lie lightless, all their sparkles bleared and black and blind. V Dim moon-eyed fishes near Gaze at the gilded gear And query: "What does this vaingloriousness down here?" . . . VI Well: while was fashioning This creature of cleaving wing, The Immanent Will that stirs and urges everything VII Prepared a sinister mate For her - so gaily great - A Shape of Ice, for the time far and dissociate. VIII And as the smart ship grew In stature, grace, and hue, In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too. IX Alien they seemed to be: No mortal eye could see The intimate welding of their later history, X Or sign that they were bent by paths coincident On being anon twin halves of one august event, XI Till the Spinner of the Years Said "Now!" And each one hears, And consummation comes, and jars two hemispheres.

Notes: 1. On April 14, 1912, the Titanic sank with the death 2,206 passengers 2. salamandrine: bright red--the salamander was supposed tobe able to live in the midst of a great fire 3. thrid: thread

Question 3 (Suggested time: 40 minutes)
The Age of Innocence All the King's Men Anna Karenina The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man The Awakening Billy Budd Crime and Punishment Faust Fences The Glass Menagerie Great Expectations The Great Gatsby Heart of Darkmess Hedda Gabler	Henry V The Mayor of Casterbridge The Merchant of Venice Mrs. Warren's Profession Pere Goriot The Picture of Dorian Gray The Plague Poccho The Scarlet Letter Silas Marner Sister Carrie Sula The Turn of the Screw Typical American