English: Fall Semester Exam

English Honors: 2011 Spring Semester Exam: Study Guide

Study Suggestion: Use two highlighter colors; When you have covered one point on the study guide, highlight it in a light color; When you feel that you have conquered that point and don’t need to review it anymore, highlight it in a darker color; When you are truly ready for the exam, every point should be the dark color.

Grammar: Subject/Verb Agreement, Punctuation (Commas, Colons, Semicolons), Pronoun Usage (Who/Whom, We/Us), Capitalization

Vocabulary and Literary Terms Romeo and Juliet: Tedious, Amorous, Distraught, Valiant, Counsel (See Exam 1); Metaphor, Simile, Foreshadowing, Imagery, Allusion, Aside, Dramatic Irony, Oxymoron, Blank Verse, Soliloquy, Pun, Prologue, Monologue, Hyperbole, Paradox (See Exams 1&2 Definitions/Examples) Of Mice and Men: Apprehension, Derogatory, Woe, Novella, Theme, Dialect (See Exam) Night: Memoir, Prejudice, Holocaust, Gestapo, Torah, Cabbala, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Passover, Yiddish, Stereotype (See Exam, Notes, Handouts) Survival: Vignette, Metafiction

Romeo and Juliet (See Exam 1&2) Background Notes: Shakespeare’s Hometown, Date of Death, Town in which he acted, Theater of Lord Chamberlain’s Men, language used by Shakespeare, purpose of the apostrophe, 3 God-given desires of men, 3 God-given desires of women; why all actors male; who decided marriages of young adults; Levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy, Renaissance Courtship Play: what does ‘wherefore art thou Romeo’ mean, how does the feud end Quotes: Violent Delights, Plague on houses, Thou art a villain, Rose by any other name, fortune’s fool The Necklace: author; cause/effect; how story ended Sonnets: how many lines; rhyme scheme; recognize heroic couplet

Of Mice and Men (See Exam, Notes, and Novel) Background Notes: decade in which novel set, what was/is the American dream, what is the significance of the title, what is Euthanasia, in what state is the novel set, what are 3 types of friendship, what is a spiritual friendship Novel: What’s George and Lennie’s dream, Lennie’s instructed to do what if gets in trouble, what does Carlson want Candy to do, what do Crooks/Lennie/Candy/Curley’s wife have in common, how is Lennie killed, similarities between deaths of Lennie and Candy’s dog

Night (See Exam, Notes, and Novel) Background Notes: Author and Main Character, 2 Camps Family Sent To, Man who convinced Elie to write, Museum Elie Helped Found, Solidarity Notes Novel: reaction of Sighet citizens early in war, what caused Madame Schachter to go crazy, how was the sad- eyed angel executed, what were the prisoners forced to do after the execution, what was Elie’s attitude towards God on Rosh Hashanah, what is the decision Elie and his father have to make when Buna evacuated, why doesn’t Elie want his father to fall asleep in the snow during the march, What does Elie pray for on the march after seeing the Rabbi searching for his son, what is today’s American Holocaust, we had day of silence for remembrance and what, suffering is given meaning by what (based on Christian beliefs) The Lottery Winner and Kitty Genovese: (see Night Exam)

Survival Unit (See Notes and Novel): The Things They Carried – author, plot, characters, themes, study questions; Savior Motif (Notes); Child Soldiers (Notes); The Most Dangerous Game – author; themes; what was being hunted; how did it end; 5 Paragraph Essay Structure! Works Cited, Plagiarism, In-Text Citation!