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Final Exam Review

Frankenstein

o Review the basic plot of the novel.

o Understand where the following quotes occur, and their significance to the novel. Also be able to apply Romantic themes to relevant quotes:

“No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me. No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs.”

“Strange and harrowing must be his story; frightful the storm which embraced the gallant vessel on its course, and wrecked it--thus!”

“And when, on the morrow, she presented Elizabeth to me as her promised gift, I with childish seriousness, interpreted her words literally, and looked upon Elizabeth as mine—mine to protect, love, and cherish.”

"Wretch!" I said, "It is well that you come here to whine over the desolation that you have made. You throw a torch into a pile of buildings, and when they are consumed, you sit among the ruins, and lament the fall. Hypocritical fiend!"

o Know the traits of the Romantic time period, and understand how they are used/applied to the novel.

Partials

• What are the dystopian traits?

• What are utopian traits?

• What are the dystopian protagonist traits?

• What are the modern themes?

• Know what the society values most?

• Know main plot traits

Passages: Be able to identify the items listed below each quote.

“There are some things more important than ourselves – more important than the limits of the present, and the whims of the now. There is a future to build and protect. And if we’re going to make that future a reality, we have to stop fighting among ourselves. We have to end dissent wherever we find it. We have to trust one another again. This is not about the Senate and the city, this is not about the city and the farms, this is not about any little group or faction. This is about us. The entire human race, united as one. There are people out there who want to tear that apart, but we are not going to let them!”

• Dystopia traits

• Utopian traits

• Values presented

“It [Samm] was going to be killed because it had killed Gabe, and Skinny, and six billion other people. After everything it had done, every atrocity it had been a part of, how dare it have the temerity to imply that it was a victim?”

• Theme

• Kira characteristics

• Wells’ message

“That’s not what I’m saying,” said Kira.

“But it’s what you’re implying,” said Delarosa. “You are implying that control is bad, and that people, left to their own devices, will sort this problem out on their own without any help from us. You can’t look at the state of the world and honestly suggest that it could sort itself out.”

• Totalitarian traits in passage

• Theme

• Need for control

“I’m just sick of hearing about everyone’s civil rights and everyone’s privacy and everyone’s inviolable power of choice. We either solve our problems or we go extinct – there is nothing in between. …

(Xochi) “we’re talking about the government taking full control over your body – what it’s for, what you do with it, and what other people can do to it.”

• Totalitarian traits in passage

• Theme

MLA Format

o Know the format for the Works Cited page

o Know what material in a research paper needs citation

o Know the correct order of items in an MLA heading and where the heading is located.

o Know the proper way to write a thesis and what should NOT be in it.

o What are steps to remember when inserting a quote into a paper?

o What is commentary and what are its purposes?

o Be aware of the order of punctuation when citing a source, especially when citing the source of a quote.

Poetry

o Thoughts and feelings of the speaker of “Preludes”

o Excerpt that best captures the speaker’s feeling toward six o’clock in the first section of “Preludes”

o In the third section of “Preludes,” the author’s style of using a despairing tone is clear when the night reveals to the woman in bed what?

o What are the hollow men compared to in “The Hollow Men?”

o What does the speaker connect with the wind blowing through the dry grass in the first section of “The Hollow Men”?

o How does the world end in “The Hollow Men?”

o What makes the men hollow in “The Hollow Men?”

o According to the speaker in “The Naming of Cats,” naming cats is what?

o What gives a cat its pride in “The Naming of Cats”?

o Know the 3 types of names for cats and their importance to both the cats and people in “The Naming of Cats.”

o Why can people never know a cat's true name in “The Naming of Cats?”

o What are the proper opinions for the subject in “The Unknown Citizen”?

o Which phrases provide strong imagery in “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”?

A Modest Proposal

o Purpose of proposal

o Why is the proposal easy to suggest?

o Real thesis

A Vindication of the Rights of Women

o What happens when women only care about their appearance?

o Why should men and women be friends?

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

o What gives the men hope?

o How do the men on the ship respond to the shooting of the bird before and after the fog lifts?

o Emotion and thematic connection for the quote below.

The cold sweat melted from their limbs,

Nor rot nor reek did they:

The look with which they looked on me

Had never passed away.

An orphan’s curse would drag to hell

A spirit from on high;

But oh! more horrible than that

Is a curse in a dead man’s eye!

Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse,

And yet I could not die.

o Why does the mariner kill the bird?

o What supernatural elements are in the story?

The Demon Lover

o What surprise is in the house?

o What information is learned from her flashback?

The Rocking Horse Winner

o How is Paul different from his parents?

o Why does Paul gamble on horses?

o When is the only time Paul loses?

Shooting an Elephant

o How does Orwell feel about being a cop?

o Why do the people become interested in the elephant?

o What do the people do when the elephant is shot?

Cold Read

You will need to read an attached article and answer the questions that follow it.

Vocabulary

You will need to be able to use the following vocabulary words correctly in a sentence.

o mutable

o implicated

o punitive

o discourse

o waive

o congenital

o serendipity

o hypocrisy

o idyllic

o allay

o cerebral

o depravity

o unimpeachable

o soluble

o nondescript

Grammar

Correcting run-on sentences, verb tense, and proper pronoun-antecedent agreement. Do the following practice exercises.

I. Run-on Sentences:

A run-on sentence occurs when two or more independent clauses are joined incorrectly.

* an independent clause is a group of words that can stand alone as a sentence.

Examples: The dog runs.

All essays are due Friday.

Frankenstein is a scientist.

There are two types of run-on sentences:

• Fused sentences

• Comma splices

Fused Sentences:

A fused sentence occurs when independent clauses run together with no marks of punctuation or coordinating conjunctions to separate the clauses.

Examples: * Tom read the novel Frankenstein his friend saw the movie.

* Frankenstein was focused on his creation he did not think about the results of his actions.

Comma Splice:

A comma splice occurs when two or more independent clauses are joined only by a comma.

Examples: * Frankenstein goes off to college to pursue his education, his family stays behind and awaits his return.

* Frankenstein creates life, he does not tell anyone what he has done.

Solutions For Fixing Run-on Sentences:

There are four ways to revise a run-on sentence:

* Use a comma and a coordinating conjunction (FANBOYS).

Run-on: Frankenstein goes off to college to pursue his education, his family stays behind and awaits his return.

Correction: Frankenstein goes off to college to pursue his education, but his family stays behind and awaits his return.

* Use a semicolon alone or with a transitional expression.

Correction with a semicolon: Frankenstein goes off to college to pursue his education; his family stays behind and awaits his return.

Correction with a transitional expression: Frankenstein goes off to college to pursue his education; however, his family stays behind and awaits his return

* Separate the independent clauses into sentences:

Correction: Frankenstein goes off to college to pursue his education. His family stays behind and awaits his return.

Directions: Correct the following run-on and fused sentences.

1. Julie is a real hypochondriac when her stomach hurts, she is certain that she has a bleeding ulcer, and if she has a backache, she believes that she has cancer of the spine.

2. My cat Buster loves to nap on warm appliances when he sleeps on top of the television, his tail swipes the screen like a windshield wiper.

3. During English class, Anthony kept flirting with RaShaunda because his behavior was keeping Shenicka from understanding the lecture, Shenicka whacked him over the head with her heavy dictionary.

4. In preparation for the quiz, La'Mia studied comma splices and fused sentences until she thought her brain would burst, finally, she put away her notes, convinced that she would remember the rules even on her death bed.

5. At the back of the classroom, Nina sat with her arms crossed, glaring at her teacher, Mr. Beane, her body language indicated that English was her least favorite subject.

6. When Matt shaved his head, his mother worried that he had joined a cult the real reason for the bald head, however, was that Matt could get more attention and sympathy from girls who thought he was sick with a dread disease.

7. Mike loves to play computer games, especially Tomb Raider, he imagines that all of the villains are his problems, and he gets great satisfaction blasting them to bits.

8. Cindy's mumbling often gets her in trouble just the other day, in fact, her stylist misunderstood Cindy's instructions and dyed her hair blue after Cindy asked him to trim the ends.

9. Clyde knew that he should be saving money for next semester's tuition he spent every paycheck, however, on gold jewelry and expensive dinners for his greedy girlfriend Gloria.

10. At the campus coffee cart, Gini makes the best drinks her sweet cream latte, a blend of vanilla ice cream and espresso, will put on the pounds, but its cool, smooth taste is worth a trip to the gym.

II. Verb Tense

Simple Tense

• Verb tense refers to when an action takes place. There are three simple tenses of a verb: the present, past, and future.

• The present tense indicates an action taking place – right now – at this moment. The past tense indicates an action that has occurred in the past. ” The suffix ed is added. The future tense indicates an action that will occur in the future. Will is added to create the future tense.

Perfect Tense

• Present Perfect – Shows that an action was completed at an indefinite time(s) in the past, or started in the past but continues to the present.

▪ Ex: I have aimed. You have aimed. He has aimed. They have aimed.

• Past Perfect – Shows that an action preceded another action in the past.

▪ Ex: She had aimed. They had aimed.

• Future Perfect – Shows an action in the future will precede another future action.

▪ Ex: It will have aimed. They will have aimed.

Progressive Tense

• Present Progressive is in progress The temperature is falling sharply.

• Past Progressive was in progress Wind speeds were rising all morning.

• Future Progressive will be in progress Power crews will be watching for downed wires.

Emphatic form – makes the verb more forceful. This form only has two tenses – present and past.

• This form is made by adding do or did to the first principal part of the verb.

Example: He did go out when he was grounded.

They do cheat on tests and quizzes.

Practice: Correct the underlined verb tense.

1. By the time negotiations began, many pessimists have expressed doubt about them.

2. After Capt. James Cook visited Alaska on his third voyage, he is killed by Hawaiian islanders in 1779.

3. I was terribly disappointed with my grade because I studied very hard.

4. Everyone hopes the plan would work.

5. If the club limited its membership, it will have to raise its dues.

6. As Barbara puts in her contact lenses, the telephone rang.

III. Pronoun Antecedent

■ A pronoun takes the place of one or more nouns or pronouns.

Example:

-Susan watched the monkey make faces at her little brother and sister.

-She laughed at it more than they did.

■ The word that a pronoun replaces or refers to is called the ANTECEDENT.

Ex: (the arrow points from the pronouns to their antecedents)

□ The tour guide showed the students where they could see Mayan pottery.

□ Why did Oscar give his camera to the film school?

□ Darius scored a field goal. It was his first of the season

■ All pronouns must agree with their antecedents in:

□ Number (singular or plural)

□ Gender (masculine, feminine, or neutral)

o Masculine antecedent = masculine pronoun

□ he, his, him

o Feminine antecedent = feminine pronoun

□ she, her, hers

o Neutral antecedent = neutral pronoun

□ it, its

□ Person (first, second, or third)

o A plural pronoun should be used with a compound antecedent joined and

▪ Julian and Taryn ran until they were exhausted.

o When compound antecedents joined by and refer to the same person or thing, the pronoun is singular.

▪ My lawyer and friend said she would attend the meeting for me.

o A singular pronoun is used to refer to two or more singular antecedents joined by or or nor.

▪ Garrett or Chase will give his presentation today.

o A plural pronoun is used with two or more plural antecedents joined by or or nor.

▪ Either the juniors or the seniors are singing their class song.

o When a singular antecedent and a plural antecedent are joined by or or nor, use a pronoun that agrees with the nearer antecedent.

□ The boy or his parents will present their idea.

□ The parents or the boy will present his idea.

o Use a singular pronoun when a collective noun refers to a group as a single unit.

▪ The class decided it wanted to do the project.

o Use a plural pronoun when the collective noun refers to a group’s members as individuals.

▪ The class stayed in their desks.

o Use singular pronouns to refer to indefinite pronouns used as antecedents.

▪ Each of the boys had his assignment ready.

▪ Everyone on the women’s team improved her time.

▪ Many a girl has invested time in improving her appearance.

▪ Everybody on the committee had his or her own agenda.

o Intervening phrases can complicate agreement of pronoun with antecedent.

▪ Ignore phrases such as as well as, along with, together with.

▪ The president, along with the members of city council, is disclosing his new budget.

Directions: Complete the sentence with the appropriate word for pronoun- antecedent agreement.

1. The release of endorphins ___________stimulated by frequent exercise.

2. Neither Frank nor Joe has completed ___________ project for astronomy class.

3. Our mascot, as well as the team and coach, _______________ to all of the games.

4. Neither the child nor the parents ___________________ for the weekly meeting with the counselor.

5. Each student needs __________________own computer to practice on and it's not fair that we weren't assigned a spot in the lab.

7. Everyone on earth – billions of people – ______________ about a liter of fluid per day to survive.

8. Every boy must rest in __________ own bed.

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