2nd Semester Exam Review Beard and Sample

Your exam will consist of 70-85 multiple choice questions on course content and AP style reading passages with questions. The AP style reading questions will not be scaled; your final exam grade is passed on a straight percentage of questions answered correctly.

Novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Great Gatsby Catcher in the Rye A Streetcar Named Desire

Some ideas to consider in context of the novels bildungsroman Romanticism hope hypocrisy Lost Generation internal conflict cynicism Providence disillusionment key symbols in each novel freedom

Humor/Satire Levels of Comedy elements of satire

Review your rhetorical terms list and satire definitions. You must be able to recognize examples of rhetorical strategies and literary devices and identify their effects.

Short Pieces - Pieces that were in your Language of Composition book will be available for your review during exam review time in class (check for links on the website) You should have copies of all others. Short pieces from throughout the year are still posted on the web site. If you are having trouble locating a copy of something, ask. Don’t forget that we will be available during normal tutoring time next week!

Questions on these pieces will require you to recognize elements of argument and satire and be able to identify the purposes and effects of those elements. In order to respond to the analysis questions, you must have a working knowledge of the writers' points of view as expressed in their essays

Satire Onion article “Girl Moved to Tears by Of Mice and Men Cliff notes” “Happy Memories Club” by Lee Smith "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift "Waging Germ Warfare" by Dave Berry “Who’s On First” audio clip “I Want a Wife” by Judy Brady Syfer “Save Our National Sense of Humor” by Garrison Keillor "Winter Dreams" by F. Scott Fitzgerald “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty “The Reach of Imagination” by Jacob Bronowski “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell "A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner “Godzilla vs. the Giant Scissors” by Brent Staples “Corn-Pone Opinions” by Mark Twain “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” "The A & P" by John Updike

Also, review all Vocabulary Lists for 4th, 5th, and 6th 6 Weeks periods. Vocabulary will appear as both stand alone questions and embedded in test questions.

Good luck! Please Study!