ELA B11 Final Review
Section I: Matching and/or fill-in-the-blank
ELA B11 Review / 20141. Historical documents (EO): documents that give us clues about past events.
2. Primary evidence (Chinese, 216): Historical records of the actual words or other documentation of a person who participated in or witnessed the events described.
3. Secondary evidence (Chinese, 216): Historical records of the findings of someone who did not participate in the event but who used eyewitness evidence.
4. Memoir (Night notes): a historical record composed from personal observation and experience, but that focuses on a significant historical event.
5. Ballad (“Ballad of Birmingham”): a song or poem with a regular rhyme, a strong rhythm, and a refrain. Most have a strong emotional and sentimental quality.
6. Imagery (Birmingham): Images that evoke the senses.
7. Irony (Birmingham): when there’s a difference between what you think is going to happen and what actually happens.
8. Metre (Birmingham): a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
9. Rhyme Scheme (Birmingham): a pattern of end rhymes.
10. Repetition (Birmingham): repeating a line or word for rhetorical effect.
11. Mood (Birmingham): the prevailing emotional atmosphere of a story or poem.
12. Subject of poem (Birmingham): what the poem is about.
13. Elegy (“Blue”/ “The Six Million”): a poem lamenting the death of an individual
14. Concrete poem (“Blue”/ “The Six Million”): the graphic shape of a poem conveys the meaning, effect, or subject of the poem.
15. Soliloquy (Macbeth Act I): a speech that is spoken by a character to him/herself, regardless if other characters are on stage.
16. Motif (Macbeth Act I): a recurring image or idea in a text.
17. Aside (Macbeth Act I): lines spoken by a character intended for the audience.
18. Dramatic Irony (Macbeth Act I): when the audience knows something that characters don’t know.
19. Allusion (Macbeth Act III): a reference to a person, character or other text outside of the text
20. Pathos (Macbeth Act IV): evoking pity in the audience.
21. Antithesis (Macbeth Act IV): the opposite of something.
22. Foreshadowing (Macbeth Act IV): used to give the reader important antecedent action.
23. Antithesis (Macbeth Act V):
24. Symbolism (Macbeth Act V):
25. Suspense (Macbeth Act V): the intense feeling that an audience goes through while waiting for the outcome of certain events
26. Foreshadowing (Macbeth Act V):
27. Metaphor (Macbeth Act V):
28. Science Fiction (“The Feeling of Power”)
29. Satire (“The Feeling of Power”)
30. Insert:(Oil: Three Perspectives)
31. Cut: (Oil: Three Perspectives)
Section II: Literary Devices
· Questions asking you to identify figures of speech in lines from various
Section III: Short Answers/Multiple Choice
You will have choices for short answers.
· Questions related to character, plot, conflict, and theme (from all texts we’ve read)
· Questions relating to ethics and equity.
· Questions related to human rights/genocide from your inquiry paper.
· Questions related to Macbeth
· Questions related to Night
· Equity and equality (EO)
· Disenfranchisement (Chinese)
· Segregation (EO/Chinese)
· Three types of questions and explanations (Night)
· Film/Poster Technical Techniques (Cyber Safety Poetry & Oil Viewing)
Section IV: Essay Question
· Choose one of four prompts. Deal with THREE texts/characters.
· The prompts will deal with equity and ethics and the themes from Macbeth.
· Be sure to construct it like a well-written five-paragraph essay.
Texts to Know
· Night (Memoir)
· Macbeth (Play)
· “Honour” (Short story)
· “Marigolds” (Short story)
· Chinese Immigration documents (non-fiction)
· Equal Opportunity documents (non-fiction)
· “Equal Opportunity” ( poem)
· “Spill! A Gulf Oil Spill Scrapbook” (Scrapbook entries)
· “The Feeling of Power” (Short story)
· “After the Sirens” (short story)
· “Blue” (poem)
· “The Six Million” (Poem)
· “I Sit Down on the Floor of the School for the Retarded” (Poem)
· “Ballad of Birmingham” (Ballad Poem)
· “First They Came” (Poem)
· Cyber Safety Posters (Visual posters)
· Oil: Three Perspectives (Ad/News Clips)
· “Scholars Look to Clear Macbeth’s Name” (Newspaper article)
· “Syrian Crisis” (Newspaper article)