OPTION INTERNATIONALE DU BACCALAUREAT SESSION DE JUIN 2005 '1 SECTION : AMERICAINE i l'ktranger EPREUVE : LANGUE ET LITTERATURE DUREE TOTALE : 4 HEURES SUJETS PRINCIPAUX Le candidat devra traiter UN des dm sujets proposks OPTION INTERNATIONALE DU BACCALAUREAT I SESSION JUNE 2005 I SECTION: AMERICAN Choose either Option A or B a) Write on one of the following four essay topics in Part I and write a eommenta y on one of the two passages in Part 11, either poetry or prose. b) Write on two of the following essay topics in Part I. Those candidates choosing two essay questions may not refer principally to the same works in both essays. PART I 1. Novels and plays often depict characters caught between colliding cultures-national, regional, ethnic, religious, institutional--such collision can call a character's identity into question. Select two works you have studied, novel or play, in which a character confronts such a collision. 2. Demonstrate the importance of imagery in two works you have studied. 3. It is often through exile and alienation that literary characters come to an understanding of themselves and their situations. Discuss using two works you have studied. 4. Narrative voice is an important feature of a work of literature. Discuss the ways in which two authors use narrative voice effectively in their works. Part I1 1. Poetry-Nus, Fret Not by William Wordsworth and On Hearing a Symphonyfiom Beethoven by Edna St. Vincent Millay. 2. ...