5th 6 Weeks Exam Review Sheet
The essential materials you will need to prepare for this test are as follows:
“Winter Dreams” by F. Scott Fitzgerald (posted on website)
“A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty (posted on website)
“The Reach of Imagination” LOC pages 616-622
“Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell LOC page 979-984
“A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner (website)
“Godzilla vs. the Giant Scissors” by Brent Staples LOC pages 723-724
“Corn-Pone Opinions” by Mark Twain LOC pages 717-720
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
A good portion of the test questions will be the reading test over A Streetcar Named Desire. There will be thematic questions and plot based multiple choice questions. The test also includes quote identification questions from the play. Make sure you have read the play and not just watched the movie as the two scripts very in places. Review the student notes we gave you. Find the meaning for each symbol mentioned in the notes. Consider how the last few moments of the play contain irony and be able to define this irony. What is the effect of Blanche’s parting words?
Some questions on the test will be cold reading passages; you will be asked to identify rhetorical devices in both cold and familiar passages. These passages and questions will reflect the style of the AP Language and Composition exam. The best way to review for them is to look over your rhetorical terms list (website) and study the multiple choice question stems of the exam questions we discussed in class. Additionally, it would be advantageous to consider the definition of the following words if you don’t already know them: allegory, schizoid, impartial, cynical, epithet, euphemism, churlish, “double entendre”, poignant, “self-deprecating”, feign, lyrical, and ambivalence.
Vocabulary words from this six weeks will appear in the answer choices of the multiple choice questions.
Be familiar with all the tone words. There may be a tone question for each shorter works. Tone multiple choice answer will be selected from the tone words sheet. Spend time to go through each short selection and make sure you remember the tone for each.
Make sure you can identify the thesis and conclusion of each argumentative passage. Also be able to identify major structural features and the author’s primary mode of persuasion such as ethos, pathos, and logos. Be prepared to identify rhetorical fallacies in the context of passages.
Spend additional time studying “Corn-Pone Opinions” by Twain. How does Twain incorporate metaphor, parallel syntax, homophone, anecdote, and irony. What is the tone of this piece? Twain asserts his idea about “Corn-Pone Opinions” through a variety of metaphors. What are these metaphors and how does each example further illustrate his point? Why does Twain capitalize some diction choices which would not otherwise be capitalized?