Question 3 (Suggested time—40 minutes. This question counts as one-third of the total essay section score.)
Many works of literature deal with political or social issues. Choose a novel or play that focuses on a political or
social issue. Then write an essay in which you analyze how the author uses literary elements to explore this issue and
explain how the issue contributes to the meaning of the work as a whole. Do not merely summarize the plot.
You may choose a work from the list below or another novel or play of similar literary merit.
All the King's Men
American Pastoral
Angels in America
Anna Karenina
Antigone
The Awakening
The Bluest Eye
Brave New World
Broken for You
Ceremony
Copenhagen
The Crucible
Cry, the Beloved Country
A Doll House
Julius Caesar
The Jungle
Main Street
Major Barbara
"Master Harold" and the Boys
Moll Flanders
Mrs. Warren's Profession
Native Son
Never Let Me Go
1984
The Octopus
Oliver Twist
A Passage to India
A Raisin in the Sun

How does the anonymous narrator’s first-person point of view in jonathan swift's “a modest proposal” affect its reading? a.it readers understand the social and political problems of the time. b.it indicates that the author is unbiased about the information provided. c.it leaves readers unsure about the credibility of the argument. d.it provides readers with a clear account of the political conditions of that time.

Discuss the exploration of conflict and the resolution in the story the tempest by william shakespeare in essay form

Match each excerpt to the correct stanza structure. 1. it was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea, that a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of annabel lee; and this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me. (from "annabel lee" by edgar allan poe) 2. o thou, new-year, delaying long, delayest the sorrow in my blood, that longs to burst a frozen bud and flood a fresher throat with song. (from "in memoriam" by alfred lord tennyson) 3. nature’s first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold. her early leaf’s a flower but only so an hour. then leaf subsides to leaf. so eden sank to grief,; so dawn goes down to day. nothing gold can stay. (from "nothing gold can stay" by robert frost) 4. at sestos hero dwelt; hero the fair, whom young apollo courted for her hair, and offered as a dower his burning throne, where she should sit for men to gaze upon. the outside of her garments were of lawn, the lining purple silk, with gilt stars drawn; (from "hero and leander" by christopher marlowe) quatrain couplet octave sestet