Semester Exam Review for English III

Semester Exam Review for English III Fall 2014

The semester exam will assess your reading skills and comprehension. The test will require you to read various passages and respond to skill-based questions. The following lists of literary terms, vocabulary and reading skills will assist you in preparing for the exam:

Content: Drama . Excerpt from Arthur Miller’s The Crucible Poetry . Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven . Emily Dickinson’s “I heard a Fly buzz – when I died –“ and “Success is counted sweetest” . Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” Expository Texts . Excerpt from J. Edwards’ Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God . Excerpt from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olauduh Equiano Skills: Finding the author’s purpose, drawing conclusions, identifying main idea, selecting the best summary, identifying tone and mood, making inferences, understanding words in context, analyzing text for author’s use of literary devices and figurative language, revising sentence structure, and combining sentences using correct punctuation

Grammar/Writing Skills: . Comma Usage . Subject-Verb Agreement . Sentence Combining . Adjectival Phrase . Adverbial Clause

Terms: Alliteration Anecdote Antonym Consonance Counterargument Dramatic Irony Imagery Internal Rhyme Overstatement Parallel Structure Personification Point of View . Limited . Omniscient . First Person . Second Person Red Herring Rhyme Scheme Situational Irony Speaker Symbolism Synonym Theme Tone Verbal Irony Vocabulary Words: Amoral Anaerobic Apolitical Atypical Authoritative Centrifuge Conjure Odious Ordain Paranoia Perpetrator Protrude