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English 1: Final Exam Study Guide 2015
Bring your anthology and your copy of Candide to the exam.
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You need not memorize the information on the handout titled “Candide Notes.” The information is useful and is intended to enrich your enjoyment and appreciation of the novel, but it’s not on the exam. Review the handout, however, because it will help you to recognize the viewpoints expressed by the various characters.
Be sure you know the correct Modern Language Association format for parenthetical documentation.
Learn, now, the correct spellings and uses of the following words: supposedly, woman, women, then, than, and all variations on to, its, and there.
Know your rhetorical devices: simile, metaphor, personification, imagery, allusion, irony (all three types), paradox,apostrophe, satire, and symbolism
You must be able to punctuate the titles of novels, short stories, poems, and plays correctly.
Know what TPCASTT stands for.
Candide.
Re-read the section on the Enlightenment in pages 818-820 of your text. What Enlightenment elements are evident in Candide? Be able to provide examples.
Questions on the exam will follow everybody’s favorite “identify the speaker” format, and will require you to recall the speaker’s name from memory. This means you must be able to recall such names as Cunegonde, Pococurante, Cacambo, Martin, Pangloss, Candide, of course, and James the Anabaptist. The old woman with one buttock is Abigail. There will be no word bank.
Siddhartha. Review characteristics of an epichero in your notes. Which ones does Siddhartha exhibit?
Poems and Short Stories
“The Second Coming”: what is the tone? How do we know it’s a Modern poem (like Modernism modern)? What aspects of Modernism are reflected in the poem?
“Games at Twilight.” 1094 Which literary devices are used most extensively to convey the theme?
“By Any Other Name.” 204 What is the significance of the title?
“Life is Sweet at Kumansenu.” 330 Which rhetorical device is used most prominently?
“Marriage is a Private Affair.”24 What details convey the father’s ideas about what constitutes an ideal marriage?
“Snapshots of a Wedding.” 1086 Which rhetorical technique is spotlighted in the title?
“Loreley.” 909 Which elements of Romanticism are evident in the poem?
“The False Gems.” 941 Where does the author use foreshadowing? Does Lantin learn from his ordeal? What can we infer about his second marriage?
“The Shoes.” 984 How does the author use rhetorical devices to convey theme?
“The Wooden Horse then Said.” 1112 Consult the list of literary terms above. Which apply to the poem?
“Requiem.” 169 Not telling. It’s something we discussed in class.
“The Street-Sweeping Show.” 80 What gets satirized and how do you know?
“The Iguana.” 390 What is the theme? How do you know? Locate some phrases that point to the theme.
“The Nose” 92 What rhetorical devices does the author use?
“The Sound of the Mountain” 323 Imagery, tone, symbolism
“The Garden of Stubborn Cats”: 406 What is the theme? How do you know? Locate some phrases that point to the theme.
“Kaffir Boy” 196: revisit point of view, rhetorical devices, especially satire, and tone
“The Youngest Doll” 481: How is the story a social commentary?
From the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 796: How do we know it’s a carpe diem poem? What rhetorical devices does the poet use?
There is one essay. You will have three choices. One is to compare Siddhartha and Candide. The others are on “Games at Twilight” and “By Any Other Name.”
Bring your anthology and your copy of Candide to the exam.