English: 2017Spring Semester Exam: Study Guide
Study Suggestion: Use two highlighter colors; When you have covered one point on the study guide, highlight it in a light color; When you feel that you have conquered that point and don’t need to review it anymore, highlight it in a darker color; When you are truly ready for the exam, every point should be the dark color.
Vocabulary and Literary Terms
Romeo and Juliet:Tedious, Amorous, Distraught, Valiant, Counsel;Metaphor, Simile, Foreshadowing, Imagery, Allusion, Aside, Dramatic Irony, Oxymoron, Blank Verse, Soliloquy, Pun, Prologue, Monologue, Hyperbole, Paradox (See Vocabulary/Lit Terms Worksheets)
Of Mice and Men: Apprehension, Derogatory, Woe, Novella, Theme, Dialect (See Edmodo)
Night:Memoir, Prejudice, Holocaust, Gestapo, Torah, Cabbala, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Passover, Yiddish, Stereotype (See Background Handout)
Survival:Vignette
Romeo and Juliet (See Background Notes, Play, Reading Tasks, Sonnet Handout, Courtship Packet)
Background Notes:Shakespeare’s Hometown, Era when Shakespeare Lived/Wrote, Date of Death, Town in which he acted, Theater of Lord Chamberlain’s Men, language used by Shakespeare, purpose of the apostrophe, why all actors male; who decided marriages of young adults; Renaissance Courtship
Play:what does ‘wherefore art thou Romeo’ mean, how does the feud end, how did R&J die
Quotes: Violent Delights, Plague on houses, Thou art a villain, Rose by any other name, fortune’s fool
Sonnets:how many lines; rhyme scheme; recognize heroic couplet, iambic pentameter
Of Mice and Men (See Steinbeck Handout, Notes, and Novel)
Background Notes: decade in which novel set, what was/is the American dream, what is the significance of the title, what is Euthanasia, in what state is the novel set, 3 types of friendship, what is a spiritual friendship (notes)
Novel:What’s George and Lennie’s dream, Lennie’s instructed to do what if gets in trouble, what does Carlson want Candy to do, what do Crooks/Lennie/Candy/Curley’s wife have in common, how is Lennie killed, similarities between deaths of Lennie and Candy’s dog
Night (See Background Notes and Novel)
Background Notes: Author and Main Character, 2 Camps Family Sent To, Man who convinced Elie to write, Museum Elie Helped Found, Solidarity Notes, Reason Hitler wanted Jews exterminated
Novel: reaction of Sighet citizens early in war, what caused Madame Schachter to go crazy, how was the sad-eyed angel executed, what were the prisoners forced to do after the execution, what was Elie’s attitude towards God on Rosh Hashanah, what is the decision Elie and his father have to make when Buna evacuated, why doesn’t Elie want his father to fall asleep in the snow during the march, What does Elie pray for on the march after seeing the Rabbi searching for his son, what is today’s American Holocaust, we had day of silence for remembrance and what, suffering is given meaning by what (based on Christian beliefs)
The Lottery Winner and Kitty Genovese: (see Handouts)
Survival Unit (See Handouts/Notes/Textbook): To Build a Fire – name of author; mistake made when building final fire; advice from old-timer when traveling 50 below; why in Yukon The Most Dangerous Game – what was being hunted; how did it end; Staying Alive – writing style; Habits of Highly Successful SurvivorsPacket; Lost Boys (592-598);Charming Billy (828-837); La Puerta (186-191); Notes on Child Soldiers!
5 Paragraph Essay Structure! Works Cited, Plagiarism, In-Text Citation!