ENGLISH 1D1 FINAL EXAM OUTLINE
•
•
You must use a dark blue or black pen. Make sure you bring a spare one.
FOLLOW ALL INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY
• 80 marks – 2 hours
PART ONE: PRACTICE ARGUMENT PARAGRAPH – Much Ado About Nothing. (40
marks – 40 minutes)
INSTRUCTIONS:
Write a proper argument paragraph based on the play, Much Ado About Nothing. Memorize the
steps and apply them.
You will be given the topic sentence and must support your argument with two examples from
Much Ado About Nothing.
Using ONE of the following statements as a topic sentence, write a properly structured
argument. Support your argument with two examples from Much Ado About Nothing.
1. Though the much ado in the play amounts to nothing, Hero’s suffering in the play is
genuine.
2. Benedick is transformed from a confirmed bachelor to a love-sick poet.
PART TWO: Practice Poem Analysis (40 marks – 40 minutes)
Write a proper argument paragraph for the poem provided. You may choose to prove either
theme or mood. You must choose two passages from the poem and explain how the narrator
develops theme or evokes mood.
Warren Pryor
by Alden Nowlan
When every pencil meant a sacrifice
his parents boarded him at school in town,
slaving to free him from the stony fields,
the meagre acreage that bore them down.
They blushed with pride when, at his graduation,
they watched him picking up the slender scroll,
his passport from the years of brutal toil
and lonely patience in a barren hole.
When he went in the Bank their cups ran over.
They marvelled how he wore a milk-white shirt
work days and jeans on Sundays. He was saved
from their thistle-strewn farm and its red dirt.
And he said nothing. Hard and serious
like a young bear inside his teller's cage,
his axe-hewn hands upon the paper bills
aching with empty strength and throttled rage.