English IIIh 1st Quarter Test – Study Guide



Mid-term Exam – Study Guide

Mr. McIlwain – English IIIh – 1/11

- 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.

Vocabulary words Fiske Chapters 1-18 (multiple-choice questions about definition and proper usage)

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 (non-fiction, first-hand accounts as primary sources; second-hand accounts as

secondary sources)

“First Voyage to America” (Columbus)

Journals – recognizing author’s purpose

“Of Plymouth Plantation” (Bradford)

"The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano" (Equiano)

Puritan literature

Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God” (Edwards)

Sermon as a literary genre

Colonial Literature (Neo-classicism)

Argumentation

Speechmaking

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, charged words)

“The Crisis #1” (Paine)

“Speech to the Virginia Convention” (Henry)

“Speech to the Convention” (Franklin)

American Romanticism

“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

“The Fall of the House of Usher” (Poe)

Atmosphere, Gothic, single effect,

Moby Dick (Melville)

Poetry

“Thanatopsis” (Bryant)

Romanticism, imagery

"The Raven" (Poe)

internal rhyme, sound effects, symbolism

Recitation skills

Drama

The Crucible (A modern drama set during the Puritan period) (Miller)

drama (as a genre)

Transcendentalism (what it means; what they believed to be true)

from Walden (Thoreau)

From “Self Reliance” (Emerson)

Realism and Naturalism as literary movements

“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” (Bierce)

Stream of consciousness writing as a style

Third-person omniscient point of view

“An Episode of War” (Crane)

Realistic style and themes

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain)

Satire, parody, unreliable narrator, picaresque, Bildungsroman

“Is Huck Finn A Racist Book?” (Salwen)

Writing

Argumentation

Thesis supported by reasoning and evidence

Comparison/contrast

As a means of literary analysis

Personal narrative

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