Italian Literature - Texts and Questions - 24228

Written test to verify:

1) knowledge of course contents;

2)contextualization and interpretation skills; 3) writing and discussing skills on course contents;

3) writing and discussing skills on theoretical and methodological points.

The exam is structured as follows:

4 open questions of the following kind:

1) identification, literal comprehension and commentary of a text;

2) commentary to critical views of scholars;

3) general question on a problem, a work, one or more characters;

4) summary of essays or part of essays in programme;

5) comparison of texts or passagese.

Duration: 4 hours.

Evaluation (out of 30 points): 16 points, 4 for each question. The points are counted starting from 14/30, therefore 18/30 will be attained with 4 points.

Detail of evaluation, for each questione:

0 points: no answer, answer off topic, erroneous contents, no identification of proposed text;

1 point: basic knowledge, writing with syntactic, lexical or ortographic difficulties;

2 points: average or partial knowledge, weak analytical approach, average correct writing;

3 points: good knowledge of contents, analytical approach, correct writing;

4 points: very good knowledge of contents, analytical and critical approach, precision in details, correct and elegant writing, with knowledge of technical language;

4+ points (full marks and honour): excellent knowledge of contents, excellent critical approach, knowledge of details, reference to personal or optional readings, correct and elegant writing, with knowledge of technical language.