Mr. Rodriguez
English III Semester II Midterm Study Guide
*Your final exam will be approx. 90 multiple-choice scantron questions.
Here is what you will be tested on:
- Poetry: everything you need to study for poetry questions on the Midterm can be found on your Poetry Test Study Guide (know all the correct answers/study it!)
- Modernism and Background of the Poets from that Era
- Your understanding of “Modernism,” it’s definition, characteristics, and what it’s rebelling against (study your class notes)
- 23Vocabulary words from your flashcards
- 16 Literary Terms and their definitions from your notes
- Integrated Language Skills:Subject-Verb Agreement (Textbook pg. 755 and Workbook page 205)and Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement (Textbook pg. 911 and Workbook page 259).
- 15 MLA questions about formatting (study your PowerPoint Presentation notes and MLA Sources handouts).
Integrated Language Skills: Subject-Verb Agreement (Textbook pg. 755 and Workbook page 205)
On page 775, know the definition of Subject-verb agreement and the difference between a singular noun, plural noun, and the rules surrounding their use with a compound subject and indefinite pronoun. Know the answers to the Practice 1-10 exercise you did for homework. Study the exercises you did on page 205 in your workbook
Integrated Language Skills:Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement (Textbook pg. 911and Workbook page 259).
On page 911, know what a pronoun and an antecedent are and how they should agree in person, number, and gender.” Study the practice exercise 1-10 you did for homework. Study the exercises you did on page 259 in your workbook.
Vocabulary: Study these 23 vocabulary words from your flashcards as 20 of them will appear on the MidtermExam:
- anonymity
- disillusion
- consciousness
- tedious
- insidious
- digress
- meticulous
- Greek Prefix “di-”
- voluminous
- dogma
- apparition
- Greek Root “-psych-”
- sowed
- reaped
- wanton
- cunning
- poise
- rueful
- luminary
- Latin root “-lum-”
- lulled
- Latin root “-liber-”
- countenance
Use your notes to study these 16 Literary Terms and their definitions as 15 of them will beselected for the Midterm Exam:
- Modernism
- Dramatic monologue
- Allusions
- Stream of Consciousness
- Imagism
- Images
- Author’s Style
- Form
- Personification
- Blank Verse
- Pastorals
- Harlem Renaissance
- Speaker
- Multiple Themes
- Stanza
- Stanza Structure
MLA Formatting review:
- Know the location where the title should be placed on your composition
- Know the purpose of a thesis statement and what should be included in it
- Know the correct way of writing the name of a book/novel, short poem, or play
- Know all parts needed when a quote is given in your composition
- When writing quotes in a composition, know the purpose of an ellipses […] and what it means when a word is written within brackets: [example]
- Study the examples (from the notes taken on the PowerPoint presentation “Creating a Works Cited Page” and memorize the proper method/order of citing a book in your Works Cited page
- Know the proper way to organize the sources on a Work Cited page.
- You must know how to write the heading on your paper following the MLA guidelines (including the date)!
You will be asked to write a Jane Schaffer Two Chunk Paragraph (most likely) to test your understanding of Modernist Poetry.
Bring a pencil, a blue pen, red pen, green pen, and paper.
Do not stay up till 2AM studying the night before the Final Exam—get sleep!
Study, study, study!