Review for Freshman English Second Semester Final Exam



Review for Honors Freshman English Second Semester Final Exam

Your exam will consist of two equally weighted parts:

Part I: You will have 45 minutes to complete 42 multiple choice questions – You will read several poems or short passages and for each of them you will respond to several multiple choice questions. These questions could pertain to theme, language, sentence structure, figures of speech, conflict, characterization, literary techniques or conventions, tone, rhetorical techniques, or paraphrase.

Part II: You will have 45 minutes for the Constructed Essay Response – You will be asked to read a passage and respond in writing to a prompt. The prompt will ask you to analyze poetry and respond accordingly in an essay.

Terminology: Know these terms for the final exam. These terms are used in the questions or the multiple-choice options in Part I of the exam. They could also be terms you will look for and discuss in your written response in Part II of the exam.

Monologue

Sentence Paraphrase Drama

Phrase Sensory Images/Imagery Act

Clause Alliteration Scene

Antecedent Onomatopoeia Stage Directions

Internal Rhyme Dialogue

Conflict End Rhyme Characters

Atmosphere/Mood Rhyme Scheme Soliloquy

Theme Stanza Aside

Character Couplet

Setting Quatrain Main Idea

Resolution Meter Supporting Details

Iambic Pentameter Inferences

Blank Verse Drawing Conclusions

Figurative Language Free Verse

Paradox Sonnet

Contrast Tone The Writing Process

Simile Theme Pre-Writing/Brainstorming

Metaphor Drafting

Personification Flashback Revising

Hyperbole Foreshadowing Editing

Symbol Verbal Irony Publishing

Situational Irony

Rhetorical Techniques Dramatic Irony

Parallel Structure Allusion

Repetition

Connotation of a word

Denotation of a word

Tone

Appeals to reason, emotion, and authority (see below)

Appeal to reason – A call upon the reader’s ability to think in a rational way in order to persuade the reader’s thoughts.

Appeal to Authority – A call upon an individual or other source as an expert to strengthen an argument made by the author of a work.

Appeal to emotion – This is a popular approach in arguments. Instead of presenting evidence in an argument, it relies on expressive language and other devices calculated to incite enthusiasm, excitement, anger, or hatred

on the part of the reader.

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