American Literature Midterm Exam Guide 2014-2015 Ms. K. Flynn (Total points: 75)

Directions: Carefully answer questions 1-50 on the provided Scantron. Recall that you can write on the exam, but it is the Scantron that will be graded. No talking during the exam.

Part I: Vocabulary (Questions 1-12) Lessons 1-10 are fair game. Directions: Match the definition to the word. Sample question

1. ______easily angered A. inexorable D. irascible B. officious E. dogmatic C. furtive

Part II: Grammar (Questions 13-22)

13-16 Identify the part of speech of the bold and italicized word. 19-22 Identify the italicized word in each sentence.

Sample question: 2. ____ Wildflowers grew in the back corner of the abandoned lot. A. Noun D. verb B. Pronoun E. preposition C. Adjective

Part III: Literature: Character Quote identification (Questions 23-30) Character quotes will come from The Great Gatsby and The Crucible. Sample question: 3. _____ Identify the speaker of this quote: “Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust of the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!” A. Elizabeth Proctor D. Abigail Williams B. John Proctor E. Thomas Putnam C. Reverend Hale

Part IV: Literary Term Definitions (Questions 31-35) Match the definition to the literary term. Not all provided terms are used. Terms to know: Alliteration, slant rhyme, eye rhyme, rhyme scheme, speaker, internal rhyme, narrative poem, iamb, free verse, dramatic irony, verbal irony, situational irony, personification, metaphor, simile, meter, characterization, conflict: internal and external, foreshadowing, flashback, setting, mood, theme, symbolism Sample question: 4. ______A repetition of initial consonant sounds Part V: Literature Selection Identification (Questions 36-50) Match the text with the quote. You may use the same answer more than once, and some may not be used at all. There will be a bank of stories. Any of the following texts could be used: Puritan 4. “Because I Could Not Stop for Anne Bradstreet’s Death” 1. “Verses upon the Burning of our Walt Whitman House” 1. “I Hear America Singing” 2. “To My Dear and Loving Husband.” 2. “O Captain! My Captain!” Edward Taylor’s (not in lit book) Transcendentalism 1. “Huswifery” Ralph Waldo Emerson 2. “Upon a Spider Catching a Fly” 1. “Self-Reliance” Jonathan Edwards Thoreau 1. “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry 1. Walden God” Realism Romanticism Regionalism Edgar Allen Poe Mark Twain 1. “The Masque of the Red Death” 1. “The Notorious Jumping Frog of 2. “The Raven” Calaveras County” 3. “The Tell Tale Heart” Kate Chopin “ 4. “The Fall of the House of Usher” 1. The Story of an Hour” Hawthorne Bret Harte (NOT IN BOOK) 1. “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” 1. “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” 2. “The Birthmark” Ambrose Bierce Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1. “An Occurrence at Owl Creek 1. “A Psalm of Life” Bridge” James Russell Lowell Naturalism 1. “The First Snowfall” Stephen Crane Emily Dickinson 1. “The Open Boat” 1. “Success is Counted Sweetest” Jack London 2. “Much Madness is Divinest Sense” 1. “To Build a Fire” 3. “I heard a fly buzz when I died”

Sample Question: 5. ______”I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.”

Part VI: Essay (25 points) Use pen and the provided paper.

Directions: Write a multi-paragraph essay that addresses one of the following topics. I suggest that you create an outline to guide your writing. Ensure you use academic tone. When you are finished-proofread.