The
second semester final exam covers material only from the second semester. It is
worth 10% of your second semester grade. You may bring a single 3 X 5 card with
handwriting on front and back to the test; also bring reliable #2 pencils and a
book to read after you are done.
To
study, you should review all notes from the second semester, and should re-read
key sections of all texts we have read. This will directly prepare you for test
questions about things we have read, and will indirectly prepare you for the
questions about something we have not yet read. However, below are some
supplemental ideas and tips for what to study, what to make flashcards for,
etc.
There
will be 60 multiple choice questions organized like so:
Section 1: To
Kill a Mockingbird (12 questions)
Section 2: Writing, Research, and MLA Format (8 questions)
Section 3: Literary Terms (15 questions)
Section 4: Romeo
& Juliet (15 questions)
Section 5: Literary Analysis (10 questions reading
and analyzing a short story you have not seen before).
Section 1: To Kill a Mockingbird
·
Setting (location? year?)
·
Time (what was taking place during this
time? What was life like?)
·
Characters (their traits, events in
their lives, etc.):
o
Jem Finch
Bob Ewell Tom
Robinson
o
Calpurnia
Miss Caroline Fisher Scout
Finch
o
Dill Harris
Mr. Radley Arthur
(Boo) Radley
o
Mrs. Dubose
Atticus Finch
o
Miss Stephanie Crawford
Miss Maudie Atkinson
·
Which characters become or are
scapegoats?
·
Which characters are, symbolically
speaking, “mockingbirds?”
Section 2: Writing,
Research, MLA Format
·
Essay structure: thesis, topic,
evidence, commentary
·
Valid academic sources (.org, .edu,
.gov, well-respected news teams, etc.)
·
Invalid academic sources (non-verified
information; often, .com)
·
MLA format for page set-up and
citations
·
Proper in-text citations (Lee 28).
·
How do you properly cite a book, page
on a website, and an article in a web magazine?
Examples:
Book: Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book. City of Publication:
Publisher, Year of Publication.
Medium of Publication.
Example: Gleick, James. Chaos: Making a New Science. New York: Penguin, 1987. Print.
Page on a website: For an individual page on a Web site,
list the author or alias if known, followed by the information covered above
for entire Web sites. Remember to use n.p.
if no publisher name is available and n.d.
if no publishing date is given.
Example: "How to Make Vegetarian
Chili." eHow. Demand Media, n.d.
Web. 24 Feb. 2009.
Article in a web magazine: Provide the author name, article name
in quotation marks, title of the Web magazine in italics, publisher name, publication
date, medium of publication, and the date of access. Remember to use n.p. if no publisher name is available
and n.d. if no publishing date is
given.
Example: Bernstein, Mark. "10 Tips on
Writing the Living Web." A List
Apart: For People Who Make Websites. A List Apart Mag., 16 Aug. 2002. Web.
4 May 2009.
Section 3: Literary
1.
Theme- The central idea of a work of
literature
2.
Plot- The series of related events that
make up the storyline of a story or drama
3.
Exposition- Writing that explains, gives information,
defines, or clarifies ideas
4.
Rising
Action-
A related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of
greatest interest
5.
Falling
Action-
Events in a literary plot that occur after the climax has been reached
6.
Climax- The highest or most intense moment in
a plot, at which the conflict reaches its height and begins to be resolved
7.
Resolution/denouement- The final resolution of the
intricacies of a plot, when all of the loose ends are wrapped up
8.
Setting- The time and place of a story or play
9.
Antagonist- The person who is opposed to,
struggles against, or competes with the hero/protagonist of a literary work
10. Protagonist- The leading character (hero, or
heroine) of a literary work
11. Connotation- All the meanings, associations, or
emotions that have become attached to a word (not the literal dictionary
definition)
12. Denotation- The explicit or direct meaning
(dictionary definition) of a word
13. Monologue- A long speech by a single speaker in
a play or movie
14. Soliloquy- A long speech in which a character
who is alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud
15. Figurative Language- Language that uses figures of speech
(comparing two unlike things in a non-literal way)
16. Metaphor- A figure of speech that compares two
unlike things by saying one thing is another, without using the words like, as,
than, or resembles
17. Simile- A figure of speech that compares two
unlike things, using a word such as like, as, resembles, or than
18. Hyperbole- A figure of speech that uses
exaggeration to express strong emotion or to create a comic effect
19. Personification- A kind of metaphor in which a
nonhuman thing is talked about as if it were human
20. Foreshadowing- The use of clues to hint at events
that will occur later in the plot
21. Hero- The principal male character in a
story, distinguished by courage or ability
22. Tragic hero- A great or virtuous character in a
dramatic tragedy who is destined for downfall, suffering, or defeat
23. Symbol- A person, place, thing, or event that
stands for itself and also for something beyond itself
24. Symbolism- The practice of representing things
by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character
25. Mood- A story's atmosphere or the feeling
it evokes
26. Tone- The attitude a writer takes towards a
subject, a character, or the audience
27. Nonfiction- Writing that deals with real people,
things, events, and places
28. Fiction- Literature that uses the imagination
and is not real events, etc.
29. Sonnet- A 14 line lyric poem that is usually
written in iambic pentameter and that has a regular rhyme scheme
30. Meter- A regular pattern of stressed and
unstressed syllables in poetry
31. Imagery- Figurative or descriptive language
that appeals to the senses
32. Tragedy- A play that depicts serious and
important events in which the main character comes to an unhappy end
33. Comedy- A play which includes triumph over
circumstances, resulting in a successful or happy conclusion
34. Dialect- A way of speaking that is
characteristic of a particular region or a particular group of people
35. Irony- Contrast between expectation and
reality--between what is said and what is really meant, between what is
expected to happen and what really does happen, or between what appears to be
true and what is really true
36. Rhyme scheme- The pattern of end rhymes used in a
poem, usually marked by letters to symbolize corresponding lines
37. Alliteration- Repetition of the same or very
similar consonant sounds at the beginnings of words that are close together
38. Allusion- A reference in literature to history,
religion, pop culture, or another work of literature
39. Dialogue- A conversation between two or more
characters in a story or play
40. Motif- A recurring object, idea, etc., in a
literary work
Section 4: Romeo and Juliet
·
Setting
·
Characters
o
Romeo Nurse Benvolio
o
Juliet Friar
Lawrence Mercutio
o
Count Paris Prince
Escalus Tybalt
o
Lord Capulet Lord
Montague Rosaline
o
Lady Capulet Lady
Montague
·
Poetic devices (sonnet, rhyme, meter,
alliteration)
·
Literary Terms for Romeo and Juliet (character-based, language-based, and dramatic
devices)
Section 5: Analysis
You
will encounter texts you have not seen before, and will need to read them and
answer analytical questions about them. To prepare for this, review all notes
and material from our short story and poetry units to get a feel for the sort
of things you should do while reading and analyzing short literary works.
As
you study, you can keep in mind what sort of questions will be asked by
reviewing previous quizzes, assignments, or tests. Here are some practice
questions; these exact questions will not
be on the final, but will give you an idea of what sort of questions will
be asked.
English 1 Final
Review
1.
Who says this, or who does it describe:
“We had long ago given up the idea of walking past her house on the opposite
side of the street; that only made her raise her voice and let the whole
neighborhood in on it.”
2.
Who says this, or who does it describe: “O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon…”
3. Who says this, or who does it describe: “Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here! Is Rosaline,
that thou didst love so dear, so soon forsaken?”
4. Define a scapegoat, and identify
which character(s) in To Kill a
Mockingbird best fits the profile of a scapegoat and why.
5. Is morckm.wordpress.com likely to be a valuable academic website for
research? Why or why not?
6. What
need to be changed in this MLA heading:
John
Smith
Mr.
Kirk
English
1 Period 3
1
May 2015
7.
Is this an appropriate thesis statement?:
In To
Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses historical setting and minor characters
to explore the various ways that racism is passed down from generation to
generation.
8. What is the denotation of “baggage?”
9. What is a possible connotation of “baggage?”
10. Who is the protagonist of To Kill a
Mockingbird?
11. In Romeo & Juliet, who is a tragic
hero?
12. Is Romeo & Juliet a comedy or tragedy? Why?
13. What is the rhyme scheme of the
following sonnet (state in terms of A, B, C, etc…)
“Two
households, both alike in dignity,
In
fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From
ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where
civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From
forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A
pair of star-crossed lovers take their life,
Whose
misadventured piteous overthrows
Doth
with their death bury their parents' strife.
The
fearful passage of their death-marked love
And
the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which,
but their children’s end, naught could remove,
Is
now the two hours' traffic of our stage—
The
which, if you with patient ears attend,
What
here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.”
14. Recite an example of hyperbole.
15. Recite an example of alliteration.
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