British Literature – Honors
Final Exam Review
Poetry
Whoso List to Hunt (166)
Sonnet 30 (180)
Sonnet 75
Sonnet 29 (186)
Sonnet 116
Sonnet 130
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (266)
Still to Be Neat (270)
Song, to Celia
On My First Son
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time (275)
To His Coy Mistress (289)
Holy Sonnet 10 (282)
Holy Sonnet 14
Meditation 17 (283)
On His Blindness (293)
Paradise Lost (294)
The Lamb (430)
The Tyger(430)
Holy Thursday (Innocence) (431)
Holy Thursday (Experience) (433)
The World is Too Much (457)
London, 1802 (457)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (466)
She Walks in Beauty (491)
Ozymandias (504)
When I Have Fears (508)
La Belle Dane Sans Merci (510)
Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave? (634)
God’s Grandeur (638)
To an Athlete Dying Young (726)
The Soldier (765)
Does it Matter? (767)
Dulce Et Decorum Est (770)
Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night (871)
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Edmund Spencer
Novels
Short Stories
Gulliver’s Travels
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1984
Shooting an Elephant
Araby
William Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
Ben Jonson
Robert Herrick
Andrew Marvell
John Donne
John Milton
William Blake
William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
George, Lord Byron
Percy Blythe Shelley
John Keats
John Keats
Thomas Hardy
Gerard Manley Hopkins
A.E. Houseman
Rupert Brook
Siegfried Sassoon
Wilfred Owen
Dylan Thomas
Note: Be sure to leave time to review answers. In the past, students who completed average
or poor responses to the essay prompts did so because of stress and haste. Were they to have
reread answers, they would surely find room for improvement.
British Literature – Honors
Mr. Feeley
Final Examination
The following examination is designed to take you approximately one and one-half to two hours to
complete. There are five parts to this exam. Use your time wisely and please write legibly.
Illegible passages will be ignored and, therefore, may significantly reduce your final grade.
You will be graded on the content, structure, and clarity of each essay.
Good luck and have a relaxing summer!
Part I. Short Answer – For each of the following, explain in 2-3 sentences the central meaning of
the poem/short story – that is, what is the “moral of the story” or what would the author have us
understand?
Part II – Choose one of the following pairs of poems (portions of each are reproduced on the attached
page). Consider (though you do not have to write about each) structure, message, tone, theme, meter,
form, symbolism, metaphor, word choice, imagery – in short, all the terms that we have explored
throughout the year. Be sure also to consider the period during which the poems were written. Then,
compare and contrast through a well-written essay that pair.
Part III. 1984 Short Answer
Part IV. 1984 Essay. Choose one of the following and answer completely. You must do more than
simply summarize the plots.
Part V – Read the following essay, “
” by
. Following, write an essay addressing the three
questions/prompts that appear after the essay.