Junior Final Exam Project
CP1 American Lit: Final Exam Study Guide
Information you need for the exam:
- Definitions: review all definitions given in class and explained in the textbook relative to the themes (see word bank).
- Works of literature: review of the stories/poems/essays read in the textbook during the quarter. You need to know the titles, authors, major characters, and basic elements of the plot/purpose for writing.
- Analysis: be able to evaluate the different works that we have read this year and explain how the literature connects theme, tone, and symbolism.
- Vocabulary: see word bank for 40 vocabulary words. You will need to be able to use these words in a sentence and identify their definitions
Literary style / Text pages / Works and authors read / Terms to know
Native American / 18-60 / Coyote stories “Coyote and Thundering Rock” “Coyote, Fox and Whale” “Coyote and the Buffalo”
Iroquois myth “The World on a Turtle’s Back”
Cherokee myth “How the World was Made” / Myth
AweGuidance
Customs Creation
Oral Tradition/Literature
Exploration / 66-125 / Bradford “Plymouth Plantation”
Smith “The New World”
Cabeza deVaca “La Relacion”
Silko “the Man to Send Rain Clouds” / Eyewitness account/
Primary Source
Imagery
Tone
Puritan / 130-250 / Bradstreet “To My Dear and Loving Husband” “Upon the Burning of our House”
Edwards “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
Miller The Crucible / Fire and Brimstone
Divine Providence
Predestination
Allegory
Meter
Colonial / 256-330 / Henry “Speech at the Virginia Convention”
Jefferson “The Declaration of Independence”
De Crevecoeur “What is an American?”
King “Stride Toward Freedom”
Malcolm X “Necessary to Protect Ourselves” / Persuasion
Rhetorical Question
Elevated Language
Emotional Appeal
Ethical Appeal
Logical Appeal
Repetition/ Parallelism
Allusion
Transcendentalism / 336-445 / Emerson “Self Reliance”
Thoreau “Walden” “Civil Disobedience” / Transcendentalism
Nonconformity
Cataloging
Parallelism
Aphorism
Romanticism/Gothicism / 446-552 / Whitman “I Sit and Look Out” “I Hear America
Singing”
Washington: “The Devil and Tom Walker”
Poe: “The Raven” and “The Fall of the House of Usher” / Romanticism
Gothicism
Foreshadowing
Grotesque
Realism/Naturalism / 554-631 / Bierce: “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
Crane: “A Mystery of Heroism”
Twain: “Life on the Mississippi”, “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”, Huck Finn
Douglass “The Life of a Slave” / Realism
Naturalism
Dialect
Satire
Theme
Imagery
Motif
Modern / 820-900 / Eliot: “J.Alfred Prufrock”
Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye / Modernism
Vocabulary list for final exam
You must know the definition and be able to use these words in a sentence that demonstrates your understanding of the word.
Unit 1:
Coalition
Decadence
Innuendo
Transcend
Unit 2:
Bombastic
Drivel
Infringe
Interloper
Unit 3:
Acculturation
Expedite
Nominal
Vitriolic
Unit 4:
Aggrandize
Contraband
Irrevocable
Resilient
Unit 5:
Amnesty
Caveat
Scourge
Vapid
Unit 6:
Cajole
Contrive
Fetter
Immutable
Unit 7:
Beneficent
Crass
Infraction
Stalwart
Unit 8:
Dispassionate
Impugn
Relegate
Squeamish
Unit 9:
Anathema
Novice
Pretentious
Slovenly
Unit 10:
Accrue
Covert
Gist
Sedentary