Conflicts, Issues, and Choices / ELA A9 /

ELA A9 Midterm

Name: ______Date: Friday, November 15, 2013

Terms to know:

There will be some matching, some short answer, and some passages (from the texts we have studied) in which you will identify imagery or symbol or characterization, etc.

  1. Protagonist (“Through the Tunnel” notes)
  2. Antagonist (“Through the Tunnel” notes)
  3. Conflict (“Through the Tunnel” notes)
  4. External conflict (“Through the Tunnel” notes)
  5. Person versus person
  6. Person versus environment
  7. Person versus society
  8. Internal conflict or person versus self (“Through the Tunnel” notes)
  9. Visualization (“Through the Tunnel” notes)
  10. Visual
  11. Auditory
  12. Olfactory
  13. Gustatory
  14. Tactile
  15. Imagery (“Taste of Melon” notes)
  16. Symbol (“Taste of Melon” notes)
  17. Characterization (“Taste of Melon” notes)
  18. Physical characteristics
  19. What the narrator says/thinks about the character
  20. What the character says, thinks, does
  21. What other characters say to or about the character or think about the character or do the character
  22. Symbols associated with the character
  23. Theme (“Taste of Melon” notes)
  24. Points of view (from notes on modes of narration/POV)
  25. First-person
  26. Second-Person
  27. Third-person objective
  28. Third-person limited
  29. Third-person omniscient
  30. Fairy tale (know five characteristics of fairy tale) (“The Forty Thieves” notes)
  31. Stereotype (“Bugs” notes)
  32. Discrimination (“Bugs” notes)
  33. Three parts of a newspaper report (“Jury Deliberates Vigilante Five” notes)
  34. Vigilante (“Jury Deliberates Vigilante Five” notes)
  35. Facts (“Jury Deliberates Vigilante Five” notes)
  36. Allegations (“Jury Deliberates Vigilante Five” notes)
  37. Activating background knowledge (“Theseus and the Minotaur” notes)
  38. Visualization (“Theseus and the Minotaur” notes)
  39. Synthesizing (“Theseus and the Minotaur” notes)
  40. Plot (“Theseus and the Minotaur” notes)
  41. Setting (“Theseus and the Minotaur” notes)

Texts to know

  • There will be questions related to each of these texts. They might ask about characters’ motives or conflict or how characters resolve conflict and so on. Some of them will be specific to a text; some will be general, so you can answer using any relevant text.
  • There will also be an essay question in which you will refer to one or more characters/texts.
  • There will be choices.
  • “Through the Tunnel” (Short story)
  • “Taste of Melon” (Short story)
  • “The Forty Thieves” (fairy tale/narrative)
  • “Bugs” (short story)
  • “Jury Deliberates Vigilante Five” (news article)
  • “Little Rock Nine” (non-fiction)
  • “Warriors Don’t Cry” (memoir)
  • “The Labyrinth” (myth)
  • “Theseus and the Minotaur” (myth)
  • Independent novel

Communication Skills

  • There will be question like the questions from the Unit 1- 5 unit review.