Honors World Literature Semester Assessment Study Guide
January 2017
Vocabulary:
· Review Definitions for the words in Units 1-6.
· You will be tested on definitions and the use of the words in sentences.
· Use the Practice tests for definitions, synonyms and sentences at www.vocabtest.com to help you to review for this portion of the assessment.
· Use resources at www.vocabularyworkshop.com.
Grammar:
· Review Simple, Compound, and Complex sentences
o Know where commas are placed in compound and complex sentences.
o Review coordinating conjunctions – Comma is placed BEFORE the conjunction to separate two independent clauses
§ F – For
§ A – And
§ N – Nor
§ B – But
§ O – Or
§ Y – Yet
§ S – So
· I waited for my friend after school, and we went out to dinner together.
o Review Subordinating Conjunctions
§ Common Subordinate conjunctions include:
o Time: after, as long as, as soon as, before, since, until, when, while
o Place: where, wherever
o Cause: because, since
o Comparison: as, as much as, than, whereas
o Condition: although, as long as, as if, even though, provided that, though, unless, while
o Purpose: so that, that, in order that
Example with subordinate clause coming first:
· Notice that the comma is placed after the subordinate clause when the subordinate clause comes before the independent clause.
· Notice that the subordinate conjunction is (usually) the first word of the subordinate clause.
· When the bridge opens, it will have two additional lanes.
Example with the subordinate clause coming after the independent clause:
· Notice that there is no comma used when the independent clause is placed before the subordinate clause.
· The bridge will have two additional lanes when it opens.
· Review Comma Use: “
o In Compound Sentences - see example above.
o In Complex Sentences – see example above
o In Introductory phrases and clauses:
§ Amazed by what we saw, we looked at the massive galaxy
o With Non-Essential Elements as in Appositives ( phrases and clauses NOT necessary to the meaning of the sentence)
§ Charles Babbage, an Englishman, is viewed as the inventor of the computer.
· Refer to the Comma Study Guide posted on my website @ mrs-sullivan.com
Literature:
From Beowulf
* Essential Question: How does literature shape or reflect society?
· Vocabulary to know:
o Reparation solace purge writhing massive loathsome
· Literary Analysis: Know the following definitions:
o Epic
o legendary or epic hero
o kenning
o caesura
· Reading Strategy : Determine the main idea or essential message of a passage
o Paraphrase
From The Canterbury Tales: The Prologue
· Essential Question: How does literature shape or reflect society?
· Vocabulary to know:
o Solicitous garnished absolution commission
o Sanguine prevarication
· Literary Analysis: Know the following terms:
o Characterization direct characterization indirect characterization
o Social commentary
· Reading Strategy: Preparing to Read Complex texts: Questioning
o Who? When? Where? What? Why? How?
from The Pardoner’s Tale:
· Essential Question: How does Literature shape or reflect society?
· Vocabulary to know:
o Pallor hoary tarry apothecary
o Deftly sauntered
· Literary Analysis: Know the following terms:
o Allegories: narratives that have both literal and deeper symbolic meanings
§ Exemplum: Latin for example
o Archetypal narrative elements
§ Characters, events, and other things that come in threes
§ A test of a character’s morality
§ A mysterious guide who helps to point the way
§ A just ending that rewards good or punishes evil
· Reading Strategy: Preparing to read complex texts: Reread!
· Grammar: Correctly Using Who / Whom
The Wife of Bath’s Tale
Essential Question: How does literature shape or reflect society?
· Vocabulary to Know:
o Implored relates contemptuous bequeath
o Prowess esteemed rebuke
· Literary Analysis: Know the following terms:
* Frame story: contains or frames another story or group of stories
Setting: In a frame story, the setting may not match the setting of the individual tales.
· The events in The Prologue occur around Chaucer’s time
· The Wife of Bath sets her frame story much earlier during the reign of King Arthur.
· Reading Strategy: Preparing to read Complex Texts: Check Context Clues
o Words, phrases, in the surrounding passages that shed light on the meaning of a word
o Common Context Clues: synonyms, antonyms, and examples that clarify a word’s meaning.
· Grammar: Correcting Run-on Sentences using semicolons and conjunctive adverbs