Lit II Final Exam

To prepare for the exam, you should develop a list of details related to each title we read. Include author, genre, and era. Write a single summary sentence to explain what happens or what is communicated. Note characters, plot, setting, literary devices used, etc.

Here is a list of everything that we read that will be represented on the final exam in some way:

  • Louisa May Alcott Little Women

  • Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  • Stephen Crane “War is Kind,” “Should the Wide World Roll Away,” “In the Desert,” and “A Man Said to the Universe”

  • Booker T. Washington Up from Slavery, “The Atlanta Exposition”

  • E.B. DuBois The Souls of Black Folk, "On Mr. Booker T. Washington"

  • Robert Frost “Birches,” “After Apple Picking,” “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening,” “The Road Not Taken,” and “The Mending Wall”

  • S. Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

  • Wallace Stevens “Anecdote of the Jar,” “The Emperor of Ice Cream,” “A Postcard from the Volcano”

  • William Carlos Williams “The Great Figure,” “Spring and All,” “This is Just to Say,” “To a Poor Old Woman”

  • E. Cummings “I carry your heart,” “little tree,” “anyone lived in a pretty how town,” “if there are any heavens”

  • Langston Hughes “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” “Harlem,” “Song for a Dark Girl,” “I, Too”

  • William Faulkner As I Lay Dying, Addie

  • Earnest Hemmingway “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”

  • Katherine Ann Porter “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”

  • Richard Wright Black Boy (CH 12-13)

  • Robert Hayden “Those Winter Sundays,” “Frederick Douglass”

  • Gwendolyn Brooks “We Real Cool,” “a song in the front yard,” “The Bean Eaters,” “truth,” “The Ballad of Rudolph Reed”

  • Anne Sexton “Her Kind,” “The Truth the Dead Know,” “Red Riding Hood”

  • Sylvia Plath “Lady Lazarus,” “Daddy”

  • Bob Dylan “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”

  • Joyce Carol Oates “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”

  • Ralph Ellison Invisible Man (“Battle Royale”)

  • Flannery O’Connor “Good Country People,” “The Life You Save May be Your Own”

  • Sandra Cisneros “Woman Hollering Creek”

  • Sherman Alexie “What You Pawn I Will Redeem”