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English II FINAL EXAM REVIEW 2011 Literary Elements. NAME______PER__
Dominick
1. All of the following are examples of characterization except:
a. direct comments by the author c.direct comments by the character
b. character’s dialogue d. condensed setting
2. The action within a story or narrative is called the
a. Mood b. Setting c. theme d. plot
3. The underlying idea or what you learn from the story is called the
a. Mood b. Plot c..theme d.setting
4. . The author tells the audience what the personality of the character is.
a. direct characterization c. indirect characterization
b. characterization
5. Which of the following is NOT a method of indirect characterization.
a. speech b. effect on others c. thoughts e. looks d. actions ab. labels
Literary Terms: WRITE each term on the line with its definition.
Metaphor Conflict Simile Characterization Personification Alliteration
Foreshadowing Allusion Hyperbole Theme Personification Paradox
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6. the struggle between opposing characters, forces, or emotions. i.e. Man vs. Man ______
7. the method an author uses to reveal a character’s personality. ______
8. a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using “like, as, so…”
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9. a figure of speech that makes an explicit comparison between two unlike things using “like, as, so…”
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10a. attributing human qualities to nonhuman things ______
10b. a reference to something that is known from history, literature, religion, i.e. “He’s a Romeo.”______
11. the repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together i.e. World War One ______
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12. the use of clues to hint at the events that will occur later in the story ______
13. a seemingly contradictory or absurd statement that may suggest an important truth ______
14. exaggerated language to intensify or emphasize a description ______
15. a non human thing or quality is talked about as if it were human. ______
16. the message the writer wants us to discover about the subject; central idea ______
Identify the Literary Element in the following excerpts from Bless Me Ultima and To Kill a Mockingbird
Be able to identify literary elements in examples from our texts.
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Alliteration Hyperbole Allusion Personification Paradox
Characterization Simile Metaphor Foreshadowing
17. “A nightmare was upon us” (Lee 144) ______
18. Like a coiled spring he [Lupito] jumped up, his pistol aimed straight up. (Lee 21) ______
19. Many shots found their mark. I saw Lupito lifted off his feet and hurled backward by the bullets. (Lee 22) ______
20. The morning after the mob scene, Dill says “It’s all over town this morning. All about how we held off a hundred folks with our bare hands” (Lee 158). ______
21. It is the blood of the Lunas to be quiet, for only a quiet man can learn the secrets of the earth that are necessary for planting-They are quiet like the moon-And it is the blood of the Marez to be wild, like the ocean from which they take their name, and the spaces of the llano that have become their home. (Lee 41)
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22. Me, my father gave me a saddle blanket and a wild pony when I was ten. There is you life, he said, and he pointed to the llano. So the llano was my school, it was my teacher, it was my first love- (Lee 54) ______
23. “Ultima’s owl gave the warning that the time of peace on our hill was drawing to an end” (Lee15) ______
24. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square. (Lee 5)______
25. Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o’clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frosting of sweat and sweet talcum. (Lee 5) 1______2______
26. Jem and I found our father satisfactory; he played with us, read to us, and treated us with courteous detachment. (Lee 6)______
27. Routine contentment was: improving our treehouse that rested between giant twin chinaberry trees in the back yard… (Lee 8) ______
28. Thus we came to know dill as a pocket Merlin, whose head teemed with eccentric plans, strange, longings, and quaint fancies. (Lee 9)______
29. The Maycomb school grounds adjoined the back of the Radley lot, from the Radley chickenyard tall pecan trees shook their fruit into the schoolyard, but the nuts lay untouched by the children: Radley pecans would kill you. (Lee 9) ______
30. She [Ms. Caroline] also wore high heeled pumps with a red-and-white striped dress. She looked and smelled like a peppermint drop.) (Lee 16) ______
31. Walter Cunningham’s face told everybody in the first grade he had hookworms. His absence of shoes told us how he got them...He did have on a clean shirt and neatly mended overalls. (Lee 19) ______
32. As a result the town remained the same size for a hundred years, an island in a patchwork sea of cotton fields and timberland. (Lee 131)______
33. Through my tears I saw Jem standing in a similar pool of isolation, his head cocked to one side. (Lee 134) ______
34. Your name’s longer’n you are. Bet it’s a foot longer.” (Lee 7)______
35. Ay, Marez men,” she said stoically and turned to my father. “The Marez blood draws [his sons] away from home and parents, Gabriel,” she said…The restlessness of his blood had destroyed his dream, defeated him. (Anaya72) ______
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Archetypes : For your exam, you will need to be able to identify archetypes represented in quotes from the text of Bless Me, Ultima. To study, refer to your archetype chart from the novel: know the archetypes and which characters fit each category so you can apply this knowledge. Below are examples. Focus your review on these archetypes…
WRITE THE ARCHETYPE ON THE LINE:
Friendly beast Spiritual Earth Mother Initiate
Young Man from the Provinces Platonic Ideal Heroine Scapegoat
Mentor-Pupil Relationship Evil Adversary Outcast
Father-Son Conflict Battle between Good & Evil Ritual
36. “After I was born in Las Pasturas [my mother] persuade my father to leave the llano and bring her family to the town of Guadalupe … The move lowered my father in the esteem of his compadres, the other vaqueros of the llano who clung tenaciously to their way of life and freedom….It was as if someone had died, and they turned their gaze…” (Anaya 2). ______
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37. The curandera “wrapped the squirming baby and laid it at the mother’s side, then...she carefully wrapped the useless cord and the afterbirth and laid the package at the feet of the Virgin on the small altar. I sensed that these things were yet to be delivered to someone” (Anaya 5). ______
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38. “With Ultima came the owl. I heard it that night for the first time…I knew it was her owl because the other owls of the llano did not come near the house…Its song seemed to say that it had come to watch over us” (13). ______
39. On her deathbed Ultima tells Antonio, “I was to heal the sick and show them the path of goodness. But I was not to interfere with the destiny of any man. Those who wallow in evil and brujeria cannot understand this. They create a disharmony that in the end reaches out and destroys life—With the passing away of Tenorio and myself the meddling will be done with, harmony will be reconstituted” (Anaya 260). ______
Rhetorical Proofs: Be prepared on your exam to judge “real-life” examples as well as quotes from our readings and identify the rhetorical device used to persuade the audience.
ARISTOTLE’S APPEALS
Refers to the trustworthiness or credibility of the writer.______
Persuading by appealing to the reader’s emotions. ______
Persuading by the use of reasoning and logic. ______
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WRITE * ETHOS, * LOGOS, *PATHOS FILL IN THE BLANK.
40. ______“We’ve been doing this business for 200 years.”
41.______“This makeup is natural and will make your skin look as good as this model’s.”
42. ______“ Atticus [said], ‘Would you write your name for us?’”…..”’You’re left handed
Mr. Ewell?’ said Judge Taylor.”
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43. ______A beer commercial that shows people having fun celebrating a holiday.
44. ______“’Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win,’ Atticus said.”
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45. ______“He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good luck pennies, and
our lives. But…We never put back into the tree what we took out of it; we had given him
nothing, and it made me sad.”
46. ______“There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, ...no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire.”
47. ______“His left arm was fully twelve inches shorter than his right, and hung dead at his side.
It ended in a small shriveled hand, and… I could see that it was no use to him.”
48. ______“Our planes are designed with speed in mind; they can travel the speed of light.”
49. ______“I don’t want anybody saying, ‘Jem Finch…his daddy paid a mint to get him out of that.’”
Vocabulary Review WRITE THE VOCABULARY WORD THAT MATCHES THE DEFINITION ON THE LINE
Be able to use these words in context on the final exam.
abet admonished banter condescended dogmatic emaciated entrusted evasion Fanatical gauche ingenuous meticulous perplexity persevere quibbling Servile subsided tenaciously tyranny
50. ______extreme harshness or severity; rigor
51. ______making petty distinctions or irrelevant observations
52. ______possessed or driven by excessive zeal
53. ______the condition of being puzzled
54. ______without sophistication; artless; innocent
55. ______reproved gently but earnestly; corrected
56. ______given over to another for care or protection
57. ______holding persistently to something
58. ______become less active or agitated
59. ______arrogant stubborn about one’s (often unproven) beliefs
60. ______extremely thin; wasted away
61. ______to come down voluntarily to the level of inferiors
62. ______act of avoiding
63. ______submissive; like a slave
64. ______remain constant to a purpose in spite of obstacles
65. ______lacking social graces; tactless
66. ______to assist or encourage, especially in wrongdoing
67. ______extremely, sometimes excessively, careful about small
details; precise
68. ______teasing; playful conversation
Fallacies: WRITE THE NAME of the Fallacy which identifies each example.
Bandwagon Circular Reasoning Either…Or Snob Appeal
Stereotyping Appeal to pity/fear Personal Attack
Non Sequitur Oversimplification Glittering Generality
69. ______Mike Huckabee was the best candidate for president, because he was totally better than any of the others.
70. ______How could anyone vote for Hilary Clinton for president? The fact that she is married to Bill Clinton proves that she has no self respect.
71. ______Women need to be either brilliant or beautiful to survive in this world.
72. ______Only women are good with children because they are loving and nurturing.
73. ______I passed my driving test the day I wore my pink shirt; I will always pass tests when I’m wearing pink.
74. ______Taco Bell sold 10 billion Burritos; you should buy one, too.
75. ______Duchess China was used at the royal wedding; it will bring elegance to your table.
76. ______The U.S. could easily balance its budget if it weren’t for exorbitant defense spending.
77. ______Feel the freedom of the road! The Chevrolet is the absolute best car to buy.
78. ______Only 50 percent of babies who are thrown from cars survive; buy SafeBaby child seats.
PERSUASIVE TECHNIQUES & FALLACIES
Either- Or Fallacy Claim of the argument Circular Reasoning Pathos
Circular Reasoning Oversimplification Glittering Generalities Appeal to Pity
Claim of the argument Non Sequitur Bandwagon Reasons
Oversimplification Evidence Stereotyping Snob Appeal
Counterargument Personal Attack Ethos Logos
79. A statement that uses irrelevant “proof” to support a claim. A statement that can’t be challenged, but which ‘does not follow’. ______
80. Makes a generalization that includes words or phrases with positive connotations, such as freedom, honor, ‘the best______
81. Suggests that a person should believe or do something because “everyone else” does. ______
82. Supporting a statement by simply restating it in different words. ______
83. An explanation of a complex situation or problem as if it were much simpler than it is. ______
84. An attempt to discredit an idea by attacking the person associated with it, as in name-calling.
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85. People’s desire to be ‘special’ or part of an elite group. ______
86. Dangerous overgeneralization on the basis of gender, race, ethnicity, political, religious or social group. ______
87. A statement that says there are only 2 choices available where really there are more than 2 options. ______
88. An argument that uses pity to make you feel sorry for someone. ______
GRAMMAR
Sentence Structure
*WRITE * INDEPENDENT or *SUBORDINATE to identify the Underlined & bold type clauses :
89. If you have solved that puzzle, I’ll give you a more difficult one. ______
90. Although the roads are clear, the bridge is still icy. ______
91. The birdhouse that I built is in the backyard. ______
92. Everyone loved the painting that we bought. ______
Identify the following sentence structures. WRITE THE ANSWER ON THE LINE. Choose:
Simple Compound Complex Compound/Complex
93. Satellites transmit weather data, and the computers in Washington assemble the information.______
94. I have two close friends, and I know that I can trust them. ______
95. Those are the people who bought tickets for the opera . ______
96. We telephoned Bob and cheered him up. ______
97. If it snows, I’ll stay home, but I’ll do my homework. ______
Subject Verb Agreement
Identify the correct form of the verb to make it agree with the subject. *WRITE THE ANSWER ON THE LINE.
98. Most of our knowledge about bears ______based on observation. is are
99. When my brothers and my sister ______up, they are not in a good mood. wake wakes
100 Mr. Smith and Mrs.Jones, the coach, ______at this school. teach teaches