English II Semester 2 Exam Studyguide
Your semester 2 exam will consist of 5 reading passages from the works studied this semester: Julius Caesar, Catch 22, “A Modest Proposal,” or the selected short stories are fair game. For each of these, please be able to identify major plot events and important scenes, characters, themes, and symbols.
You will also have a section consisting of questions about MLA formatting rules. Be able to write and identify correct bibliography entries and citations for the following situations:
--regular entries
--multiple authors
--missing author
--multiple works by one author
--different authors with the same last name
Finally, there will be a section on writing and revision, in which you will be asked to revise and edit passages from student papers. Be able to correctly use rules for the following grammatical situations:
Pronoun agreement
Point-of-view
Comma rules
Semicolons/colons
s/v agreement
fragments/run-ons
Be able to define and identify the following terms:
Iambic pentameter: feminine ending, short/shared lines, trochee
Syntax: anaphora, antithesis, asyndeton, epanilepsis, juxtaposition, parallelism, polysyndeton, punctuation, rhetorical question, phrases and clauses,
Devices: allegory, alliteration, allusion, apostrophe, detail, imagery, imply/infer, metonym, motif, onomatopoeia, paradox, personification, simile, sound device, style, tone
Rhetorical appeals: be able to identify characteristics of logical, emotional, and ethical appeals
To review for this exam:
Define all of the terms listed above. Identify important passages and passages we discussed in the texts we read. Identify the devices listed above in those passages, as many as possible.
Study notes taken and posted on the website for the passages discussed in class
Read commentary on TurnItIn papers and practice corrections. Look up or seek help on specific rules with which you are unfamiliar.
Ask questions about anything you are unsure of.