2013 English II Pre-AP Final Exam Review

Part One: Rhetorical Strategies

Suggested Study Ideas: Define and provide an example of each of the following terms. Look back at our JFK analysis chart and the “Inheritance of Tools” argument analysis assessment. Review the Rhetorical Analysis-Nonfiction portion of our website.

  • Style
  • Tropes
  • Schemes
  • Anaphora
  • Antithesis
  • Asyndeton
  • Metonymy

Part Two: Satire

Suggested Study Ideas: Define and create or find examples of the following satirical techniques. Review the Wall-E analysis chart and all the content that is located on the satire portion of the website. You can also Google Satirical Editorials and annotate for all four satirical techniques.

  • Exaggeration
  • Reversal
  • Incongruity
  • Parody

Part Three: Close Reading

Suggested Study Ideas: Consider the following close reading terms. You should be able to apply these when reading passages on the exam.

  • What is the author’s purpose?
  • Consider author’s tone.
  • How does diction and syntax change meaning?
  • Consider the development of mood.
  • How does the author’s use of rhetorical strategies or literary devices convey purpose?
  • Consider vocabulary in context.

Part Four: Research

Suggested Study Ideas: Review all the skills portfolio information regarding research. Review your WWYD research portfolio, article, and PSA. Understand and be able to correctly create the terms listed below.

  • Parenthetical Documentation
  • Works Cited Page
  • The Purpose of Annotating Research
  • Thesis Statements
  • Credible and Not Credible Sources

Part Five: Analysis Essay

This portion of the exam will be administered in class on Thursday, May 30th. The prompt is below. Feel free to come to class this day with any notes you took to plan for the essay.

  • Prompt: Write an essay and analyze the strategies Al Gore uses in his documentary AnInconvenient Truth to develop his intended purpose.

Skills Portfolio Websites

We highly recommend visiting the websites below (they are also posted on our website). All the skills listed on these websites will help you to rock this final exam. Links are listed below:

Arnold
First Period Website
Second Period Website
Sixth Period Website
Seventh Period Website / Irons
Fourth Period Website
Fifth Period Website
Sixth Period Website / Neal
First Period Website
Fourth Period Website
Fifth Period Website

The Outlaw

by Sinclair Ross

She was beautiful but dangerous. She had thrown one man and killed him, thrown another and broken his collar bone, and my parents, as if they knew what the sight of her idle in her stall was doing to me, never let a day go by without giving lurid details, everything from splints and stitches to the undertaker, of the painful and untimely end in store for me should I ever take it into my fool young head to try to ride her.

“I’ve got troubles enough without having you laid up with broken bones and doctor bills. She’s a sly one, mind, and no good’s ever come of her.”

“Besides, you’re only turned thirteen, and a grown man, a regular cowboy at that, would think twice before tackling her. Another year and then we’ll see. You’ll both be that much older. In the meantime nobody expects it of you.”

In the meantime, though, she was captive, pining her heart away. Week after week she stamped and pawed, nosed the hay out of her manger contemptuously, flung her head and poured out wild, despairing neighs into the prairie winds and blizzards streaming past. It was mostly, of course, for my benefit. She had sized me up, evidently, as soft-hearted as well as faint-hearted, and decided there was just a chance that I might weaken and go riding. Her neighs, just as she intended they should, tormented and shamed me.

She was a good horse, but a reprobate. That was how we came to own her. At the auction sale where she was put up, her reputation as a killer spread among the crowd, and my father got her cheap. He was such a practical, level-headed man, and she was so obviously a poor investment, that I suspect it was because of me he bought her. As I stood at his side in the front row of the crowd and watched them lead her out, poised, dramatic, radiant, some of the sudden desire that overwhelmed me must have leaped from my face and melted him.

“Anyway, she’s a bargain,” he defended himself that evening at the supper table. “I can always sell her and at least get back what I paid. But first I want to see what a taste of good hard work will do.”

He tried it. His intention was to work her on the land a month or two, just until she was tamed down to make an all-around, serviceable saddle horse, but after a painful week of half-days on the plow he let her keep her stall. She was too hard on his nerves, he said, straining ahead and pulling twice her share. She was too hard on his self-respect, actually, the slender limbs, the imperious head.

For she was a lovely reprobate. Twenty years of struggle with the land had made him a determined, often hard man, but he couldn’t bring himself to break her spirit with the plow.

Mr. Jones

Mr. Jones, of whose personal accomplishments we have hitherto said very little, was, in reality, one of the handsomest young fellows in the world. His face, besides being the picture of health, had in it the most apparent marks of sweetness and good-nature. These qualities were indeed so characteristical in his countenance, that, while the spirit and sensibility in his eyes, though they must have been perceived by an accurate observer, might have escaped the notice of the less discerning, so strongly was this good-nature painted in his look, that it was remarked by almost everyone who saw him.

It was, perhaps, as much owing to this as to a very fine complexion that his face had a delicacy in it almost inexpressible, and which might have given him an air rather too effeminate, had it not been joined to a most masculine person and mien: which latter had as much in them of the Hercules as the former had of the Adonis. He was besides active, genteel, happy and good-humoured, and had a flow of animal spirits which enlivened every conversation where he was present.

When the reader hath duly reflected on these many charms which all entered in our hero, and considers at the same time the fresh obligations which Mrs. Waters had to him, it will be a mark more of prudery than candour to entertain a bad opinion of her because she conceived a very good opinion of him.

But, whatever censures may be passed upon her, it is my business to relate matters of fact with veracity. Mrs. Waters had, in truth, not only a good opinion of our hero, but a very great affection for him. To speak out boldly at once, she was in love, according to the present universally received sense of that phrase, by which love is applied indiscriminately to the desirable objects of all our passions, appetites, and senses, and is understood to be that preference which we give to one kind of food rather than to another.

But though the love to these several objects may possibly be one and the same in all cases, its operations, however, must be allowed to be different; for, how much soever we may be in love with an excellent sirloin of beef, or bottle of Burgundy; with a damask rose, or Cremona fiddle; yet do we never smile, nor ogle, nor dress, nor flatter, not endeavour by any other arts or tricks to gain the affection of the said beef, etc. Sigh indeed we sometimes may; but it is generally in the absence, not in the presence, of the beloved object…

The contrary happens in that love which operates between persons of the same species, but of different sexes. Here where no sooner in love than it becomes our principal care to engage the affection of the object beloved. For what other purpose, indeed, are our youth instructed in all of the arts of rendering themselves agreeable? If it was not with a view to this love, I question whether any of those trades which deal in setting off and adorning the human person would procure a livelihood. Nay, those great polishers of our manners, who are by some thought to teach what principally distinguishes us from the brute creation, even dancing-masters themselves, might possibly find no place in society. In short, all the graces which young ladies and young gentlemen too learn from others, and the many improvements which, by the help of a looking-glass, they add of their own, are in reality those very specula et faces amoris* so often mentioned by Ovid; or, as they are sometimes called in our own language, the whole artillery of love.

*the spears and flames of love