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Name______________________________________________Period________

Review all handouts, study guides, and notes for each work we have read this semester.

The emphasis is on what we have read since school started, not the summer reading.

Titles and Authors

|Author |Title (remember to underline book titles and put short story titles in quotes) |

|Leif Enger | |

|Richard Connell | |

|Raymond Carver | |

|Ray Bradbury | |

|T. Coraghessan Boyle | |

|Bel Kaufman | |

|John Cheever | |

|Anton Chekhov | |

|Shirley Jackson | |

|Edith Hamilton |Mythology (“The Gods,” “The Trojan War” and “The Fall of Troy” packets are chapters from |

| |Mythology) |

|Homer | |

|O. Henry | |

|Guy de Maupassant | |

|Charles Dickens | |

Literary Terms (know the definition and be able to apply the concept)

1. Plot

2. Exposition

3. rising action

4. climax

5. falling action

6. resolution

7. denouement

8. protagonist

9. antagonist

10. foil

11. conflict

a. individual vs. nature

b. individual vs. society

c. individual vs. invidual

d. individual vs. self

12. characterization (4 ways)

e. exposition

f. action

g. dialogue

h. thoughts

13. tone

14. setting

15. symbol

16. theme

17. Point of View

i. 1st person point of view

j. 2nd person point of view

k. 3rd person limited point of view

l. 3rd person omniscient point of view

18. personification

19. simile

20. metaphor

21. foreshadowing

22. irony

23. hyperbole

24. paradox

25. oxymoron

26. ambiguity

27. epiphany

28. genre

29. concrete

30. abstract

Stories and Characters: Used for quotes, comparison of characters, character development

For each short story, it is recommended that you write a brief summary of the story.

“The Most Dangerous Game”

31. Whitney

32. Sanger Rainsford

33. General Zarroff

34. Ivan

“Cathedral”

35. the narrator (no name, but written in 1st person so the narrator is active in the story)

36. the wife

37. Robert

38. Beulah

“There Will Come Soft Rains”

39. The house

40. The family

“The Hit Man”

41. The Hit Man

42. Cynthia (wife/girlfriend)

43. The Hit Man’s father

44. The Hit Man’s son

“Sunday in the Park”

45. The mother

46. Morton (husband)

47. Larry (son)

48. Joe’s Father (man on bench)

49. Joe (boy throwing sand)

“Reunion”

50. Charlie

51. Charlie’s father

“The Lottery Ticket”

52. Ivan Dmitritch

53. Masha

“The Lottery”

54. Tessie Hutchison

55. Mr. Summers

“The Gift of the Magi”

56. Della

57. Jim

“The Necklace”

58. Mathilde

59. Loisel

60. Madame Forestier

A Christmas Carol

61. Ebeneezer Scrooge

62. Jacob Marley

63. Bob Cratchit

64. Tiny Tim

65. Fred (nephew)

66. Ghost of Christmas Past

67. Ghost of Christmas Present

68. Ghost of Christmas Future

Greek Mythology and The Odyssey

69. Athena

70. Kalypso

71. Kirke

72. Odysseus

73. Polyphemos

74. Poseidon

75. Aphrodite

76. Apollo

77. Ares

78. Artemis

79. Hades

80. Hephaestus

81. Hera

82. Hermes

83. Hestia

84. Ino

85. Muses

86. Nausikaa

87. Sirens

88. Skylla

89. Zeus

90. Eumaios

91. Agamemnon

92. Telemakhos

93. Epic simile

94. epithets

95. Kleos

96. Nostos

97. Xenia

98. Hubris

99. Characteristics of Greek religion

100. Moral lessons in The Odyssey

101. Stages of archetypal hero’s journey (see handout)

102. Characteristics of an epic (see handout)

MLA writing rules (review A Pocket Style Manual)

103. Titles of books should always be _________________ or _______________

104. Titles of poems, songs, or short stories should always be __________________________.

105. Correct way of punctuating and citing a quote. (Practice a few examples)

106. Correct way of punctuating and citing lines of verse.

107. Works cited entry for a book (know the format)

108. How to make a quote sandwich (write the directions below)

109. Rules of formal writing

a. Refer to works by the correct genre

b. Avoid referring to reading the book

c. Do not excessively refer to the author

d. Do not use “I” or “We” or “Us” or “you”

e. Do not use contractions

f. Write in the present tense

g. Avoid informal phrases

h. Lead into quotes naturally and in a way that is grammatically correct

i. Don’t use the word “quote” in your analysis

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