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10HEnglish Final Exam Review

Format:

  1. 55 Multiple Choice
  2. Reading Selection – 5 multiple choice, Open-ended (1-2 paragraphs)

3. Essay (5 paragraphs)

Caring

The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien

Characters: Review the tweeter- haha twitter I mean

Lt. CrossSanders

LavenderBowker

Lemon

Kiowa

Themes:

Sacrifice

Love

Coping

Key Events:

Deaths of _____

What they carry depends on ______

Bowker

Walt Whitman poetry -

“A Sight in the Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim” –

Imagery:

3 soldiers and their appearance

Tone ( see title)

Theme:

Death in war in of all ages

“Pensive on Her Dead Gazing, I Heard the Mother of All” –

Identify the female focus: Who is the “mother?”

Imagery:

How is the battle described? Lit. devices

Theme:

Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

Characters:

Lennie, George, Curley, Curley’s wife, Candy, Carlson, Crooks, Slim

Themes:

Loneliness

Friendship

American Dream – Live of the fatta of the land

Key Events:

Great depression- Migrant farmers

Weed/dress

Foreshadowing of Lennie’s death

Curley and Lennie

Candy’s offer

Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton

Characters:

Ethan, Zena, Mattie, Narrator (frame story),

Themes:

Isolation, obligation, love/loveless marriage, temptation

Key Events:

Foreshadowing of the attempted suicide

Pickle dish 

Spiteful ideals

Narrators curiosity lead him to_____.

Irony at the novel

How do all the works in this pillar relate to caring? Explain:

Respect

The Catcher in the Rye

Characters:

Holden, Mr. Spencer (teacher he said goodbye to), Ackley, Stradlater, Jane, Sally, Maurice, Sunny, Phoebe, Mr. Antonelli, Carl Luce (friend he met at bar), Allie, D.B.

Motifs and significance:

Museum, hat, Jane ( Kings in back row?) and ducks

Words he uses continuously

Feelings and emotions

Lack of innocence

Key Events:

Pencey Prep, Mr.Spencer, Goodbye, Stradlater and Holden’s fight, date with Sally, Museum, Carousel, Allie’s death, Catcher in the rye conversation,

“Comin’ Thro’ the Rye” – poem by Robert Burns

Theme: Lose of innocence

Holden’s mistaken theme: innocence. Phoebe corrects him. How?

“To My Mother” – Edgar Allen Poe

Theme of poem: Ode to his aunt/mother-in-law

Appreciates

The Narrative of Frederick Douglass and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

Literary genre: Autobiography (historical)

Differing experiences as slaves: Fredrick fights back and has horrible experience from the start

Root for confidence

Linda has better experience as a young child. Doesn’t realize she is a slave until after her mother dies

Psycho – Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Mood:

Symbols:

How do all the works in this pillar relate to respect? Explain:

Trustworthiness

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn– Mark Twain

Setting:Mississippi river

Characters: Huck, Jim, Widow Douglass, Miss Watson, Duke and Dauphin,

Pap, Silas Phelps, Shepardons and Grangerfords, Williams

Key events:

The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Characters:

Gatsby, Nick, Daisy, Tom, Jordan, George and Myrtle Wilson, Wolfshiem, Owleyes, Henry Gatz, Catherine

Key Events: parties, luncheon, broken nose, hit and run, confrontation, yellow car

Symbols:

Yellow car, colors, parties, letter from Gatsby, clock

Themes:

Love/obsession

Greed

Reliabibliy of narrator

How do all the works in this pillar relate to responsibility? Explain:

Literary Devices/Figurative Devices:

  1. Metaphor
  1. Onomatopoeia
  1. Foreshadowing
  1. Symbolism
  1. Alliteration
  1. Simile
  1. Rhyme Scheme
  1. Sonnet