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Final Exam Review Sheet—Introduction to Literature
Mr. Jones
English 9
The final exam in 9th grade English focuses on the following four components: literary terms, grammar, The Odyssey, and an essay.
Part I: Part I of the exam focuses on the literary terms we’ve encountered and explored this year. There are two sections to Part I. The first section asks you to match terms with their definitions. The second section asks you to connect quotes, situations, novels, objects, et cetera with an appropriate literary term and then to explain briefly how that term represents the item. All students will take this portion of the exam prior to scheduled finals. Overall the section is worth 50 points.
The Terms
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Rhetoric
Rhetorical question
Hypophora
Hyperbole
Symbol
Metaphor
Foreshadowing
Imagery
Allegory
Verbal irony
Dramatic irony
Situational irony
Sonnet
Iambic pentameter
Blank Verse
Pun
Oxymoron
Foil
Antithesis
Chiasmus
Soliloquy
Paradox
Motif
Peripeteia
Epic
Myth
Archetype
Epithet
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Part II: Part II of the exam involves the grammatical concepts we’ve addressed this year. You will be asked to answer questions that focus on…
· parts of the sentence
· the run-on
· the comma splice
· the prepositional phrase
· the participle
· the participial phrase
· the independent clause
· the subordinate clause
· kinds of sentences identified by structure (simple, compound, complex, compound-complex)
· the comma
· the semicolon
· the colon
This section is worth 45 points.
Part III: Part III of the final exam focuses on The Odyssey. You will be required to answer two short answer questions that target this epic. These questions will be large, global questions, but they will require evidence from the story in order to be answered well. 20 points
Part IV: Part IV of the exam is an essay valued at 50 points. The question for this essay will be very general, and in order to answer it, you will have to focus on one of the major texts we’ve read this year. These texts include Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm, Romeo and Juliet, Ethan Frome, and The Odyssey. To prepare, you should study the literature review sheet we complete in class as well as the green critical essay packet. Outside of quotations and citations, all the elements of composing a strong, critical essay apply.