English II Honors Review Mrs. Wilcox Fall Semester 2013

Remember—you may bring and use a 4x6 note-card on the day of the exam. It must have your handwritten notes in pen or pencil, no typed notes.

Major Works of Fiction: The Things They Carried The Scarlet Letter The Crucible Grapes of Wrath

Short Works (essays, poems, short stories). “Death of an Innocent” Chief Seattle Speech “Interconnectedness” “The Consent” “Seeing” Annie Dillard Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature and “Self Reliance” Henry David Thoreau Walden

Literary Terms Character (major, minor, dynamic, static, foil), point of view (omniscient, 3rd person limited, 1st person), metaphor, simile, personification, paradox, aphorism, allusion, irony, imagery, connotation, denotation.

Be familiar with the literary movements in American literature: Classicism, Romanticism, Transcendentalism, and Naturalism (we haven’t discussed this last one yet, but we will).

The exam will be comprised of the following components:

1. Quote explanation—identify the author, the title of the work, briefly paraphrase the quotation, identify the literary device (if there is one) and discuss the thematic significance of the quotation in relation to the rest of the work.

2. Short answer questions over Grapes of Wrath, The Things They Carried, The Scarlet Letter, and The Crucible.

3. Comparative essay question over two works of literature we’ve read this semester.

As you review consider the following questions for each work studied. Plot Look at the plot of the story. How do the events in the story relate to one another, and how do they relate to the story as a whole? What conflicts occur in the story, and how are these conflicts developed or resolved? Does the story include any noteworthy plot devices, such as flashbacks or foreshadowing? Characterization Analyze the characters of the story. What are their most striking traits? How do these individuals interact with one another? What motivates them? Are the characters fully developed, or are they stereotypes whose sole purpose it to express a single trait or to move the plot along? Setting Identify the setting of the story. At what time period and in what geographic location does the action of the story occur? How does the setting affect the characters of the story? How does it determine the relationships among the characters? How does the setting affect the plot? Does the setting create a mood for the story? In what way does the setting reinforce the central ideas that the story examines? Point of View (for TTTC , The Scarlet Letter, GOW) Examine the narrative point of view of the story. What person or persons are telling the story? Is the story told in the first person (using I or we) or in the third person (using he, she, and they)? Does the narrator see from various perspectives, or is the story restricted to the perspective of one person? Is the narrator a major character telling his or her own story or a minor character who witnesses events? How much does the narrator know about the events in the story? Does the narrator present an accurate picture of events? Style Analyze the style, tone, and language of the story. Does the writer make any unusual use of diction or syntax? Does the writer use imaginative figures of speech? What styles or levels of speech are associated with particular characters? What words or phrases are repeated throughout the work? Is the story’s style plain or elaborate? Does the narrator’s tone reveal his or her attitude toward characters or events? Is the tone of the story playful, humorous, ironic, satirical, serous, somber, formal, informal? Symbols Does the author use any objects or ideas symbolically? How does an object establish its symbolic significance in the story? Does the same object have different meaning at different places in the story? Themes Identify the themes of the story. What is the central theme? How is this idea or concept expressed in the work? What elements of the story develop the central theme? How do character, plot, setting, point of view, and symbols reinforce the central theme? How does the title of the story contribute to reader’s understanding of the central theme? The Things They  Symbols  Mary Warren Carried  Conflict  Tim as The Scarlet Letter The Crucible  Style narrator  Omniscient  Setting  Symbols  Norman B narrator  John Proctor Grapes of Wrath  Rat Kiley  Mood &  Elizabeth  Tom Joad  Kiowa atmosphere Proctor  Ma  Mary Anne  Conflict  Tituba  Pa Bell  Hester  Giles Corey  Uncle John  Lt. Jimmy Prynne  Judge  Noah Cross  Pearl Hathorne  Jim Casy  Henry  Chillingwort  Reverend  Al Dobbins h Hale  Rose of  Mitchell  Dimmesdale  Abigail Sharon Sanders  Puritan men Williams  Connie  Ted and women  Reverend  Ruthie Lavender  Symbols Parris  Winfied  Curt Lemon  Style, diction  Judge  Muley  Elroy Danforth Graves Berdahl  Thomas  Conflict  Conflict Putnam  Style  Style  Mercy Lewis  Symbols