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Study Guide for Mid-Term Exam – English IIIh – Mr. McIlwain – 1/14
- The mid-term exam grade counts as two tests grades, applied to the second quarter only.
-Be familiar with everything we’ve studied, especially literary terms (which are generally listed under the work with which we studied them). The glossary of literary terms (pp. R10-R19 in the back of the book) should be helpful. Use your textbook (Prentice-Hall Literature: The American Experience) as your primary study reference. Look back over the things we’ve read, particularly the introductory material and study questions at the end of the selections. Classwork, notes and papers will also be useful.
-The exam will comprise approximately 100 multiple-choice questions and a single essay question.
Rhetoric
What is rhetoric?
What is argumentation, and how does it work?
What are ethos, logos and pathos?
How is a personal essay different from a persuasive essay?
How is inductive reasoning different from deductive reasoning?
What is tone?
What does “reflective” mean in terms of the tone of an essay?
How is a persuasive essay developed?
What is a claim?
What is evidence?
What is commentary?
How is a persuasive paragraph typically developed (claim, evidence, commentary).
What does objective mean? Subjective?
Mythology (definition and purpose of mythlogy, particularly origin myths)
“The Earth on Turtle’s Back”
The Navajo Origin Legend
“When Grizzlies Walked Upright”
Narrative accounts
"The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano" (Equiano)
Colonial Literature (Neo-classicism)
Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography
Achieving moral perfection (virtue, precept)
Autobiography, prose
“Poor Richard’s Almanac”
aphorisms
“The Declaration of Independence” (Jefferson)
persuasion (argumentation, logical appeal, emotional appeal, reasons, evidence)
an example of deductive reasoning.
“The Crisis #1” (Paine)as a persuasive essay
“Speech to the Virginia Convention” (Henry)
“Speech to the Convention” (Franklin)
American Romanticism
Poetry
“Thanatopsis” (Bryant)
Romanticism, imagery
"The Raven" (Poe)
internal rhyme, sound effects, symbolism
Drama)
The Crucible(watch the movie on Netflix
(A modern drama set during the Puritan period)
Allegory for 1950s-era “witch hunts” for Communists in government
main characters’ motivations
Romanticism
When did the Romantic movement occur?
What defined the Romantic movement in America?
Who were the Romantic writers that we studied?
How did the Romantics feel about imagination, intuition and individuality?
Review these Romantic works: “Rappaccini’s Daughter” (Hawthorne), “The Devil and Tom Walker” (Irving), “The Raven” (Poe), “The Tell-Tale Heart” (Poe), “Thanatopsis” (Bryant),
“The Devil and Tom Walker” (Irving)
Fiction
Irony (situational, dramatic, verbal)
Faustian bargain (making a deal with the devil)
“Rappaccini's Daughter” (Hawthorne) (Not in textbook; find online)
Romanticism
Transcendentalism (what it means; what they believed to be true)
from Walden (Thoreau)
Moby Dick
What motivated Capt. Ahab to persue Moby Dick?
What motivated his crew?
Who objected to Ahab’s pursuit of the white whale?
How is Ishmael’s survival ironic?
What evidence is there that Ahab was insane?
Novel:Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston). Be familiar with the novels’ themes, setting, characters, symbols and plot. The second part of the exam will require you to write an essay about the novel.
Vocabulary: Know the definitions of vocabulary lessons 1-7
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