Fall Semester Review 2016
9th Grade PreAP English
You may encounter the following characters on the exam.
Nick Carraway Daisy Buchanan Tom Buchanan Jordan Baker Jay Gatsby
Penelope Odysseus
You may encounter the following symbols on the exam.
green light billboard Valley of Ashes spectacles colors yellow car
pink suit West Egg/East Egg
Make sure you can identify and define the following literary elements, devices, vocabulary words, and short story elements.
plot setting rising action repetition
irony tone connotation onomatopoeia
climax protagonist antagonist contrast
personification point of view simile mood
alliteration conflict paradox motif
theme imagery denotation diction
metaphor flashback resolution allusion
oxymoron juxtaposition symbolism hyperbole
There will be one passage from The Odyssey and three passages from The Great Gatsby. You will be asked to answer AP-style questions for these passages. Read, study, and annotate the passages before the final.
Passage 1: Book XIX
Passage 2: Chapter 2-begins “I married him because I thought he was a gentleman” and ends at the conclusion of the chapter (pages 39-42).
Passage 3: Chapter 6-begins “James Gatz-that was really…” and ends “Jay Gatsby had filled out to the substantiality of a man” Pages 104-107).
Passage 4: Chapter 9-begins “One afternoon late in October” and ends at the end of the chapter (pages 186-189).
You will also be asked to identify literary terms used in sentences. You will also have EOC style reading selections with reading comprehension questions, and revising and editing questions.
YOU MUST BRING YOUR READING PACKETS TO THE FINAL. You will turn these in after your test.
You will not be allowed to use dictionaries or literary terms glossaries on the final. Packets may contain markings from our class discussions, but NO DEFINITIONS are to be written in them or on the back.
Use the following Quizlet to study terms: http://quizlet.com/3684328/pre-ap-english-i-fall-final-review-flash-cards/
Study hard!