Study Guide and Exercises for Final Exam

Quiz Grade

Tone and Point of View

Read “The Plot Against People”, by Russell Baker, on pages 534 through 536 of the Literature book.

  1. What is the tone of the article?
  2. How does Baker create humor in this essay?
  3. How is this essay a satire on man and technology?
  4. What theme can readers determine from this essay?
  5. Based on context clues, what does the word “locomotion” mean in line 26?
  6. Based on context clues, what does the word “conciliatory” mean in line 44?

Point of view influences what the story-teller knows and the degree to which the reader can rely on the information. A story told in the third person, omniscient voice is usually reliable, but a story told in first person voice may not be reliable if the narrator is insane. There are three viewpoints in the short stories we have read in this class: first person narrator, thirdpersonlimited, and thirdpersonomniscient. For each story, identify the point of view and explain why this point of view is important to the story.

  1. “The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant” – page 31
  2. “Everyday Use” – page 48
  3. “To Build a Fire” – Page 78
  4. “The Pit and the Pendulum” – page 856

Poetry Review

Briefly define and provide an example for each of the following terms:

  1. Allusion
  2. Alliteration
  3. Hyperbole
  4. Metaphor
  5. Simile
  6. Pun

Writing Practice

Read the selection. Select the best answer to each of the questions that follow.

(1)The word laser from the expression “light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.” (2)Both radio waves and light waves are forms of energy nevertheless, neither weak radio waves nor weak light waves harming us. (3) Producing and transmitting intense light being the purpose of a laser. (4) Either a rare metal or a rare gas is used for the intensification of light waves. (5)Chromium and helium were used in early lasers, today various kinds of lamps produce the light that lasers intensify. (6)Electrons and light waves interacting to make the light extremely intense.
  1. In sentence 1, The word laser from the expression “light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation” is best written
  2. As it appears
  3. The word laser, from the expression “light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.”
  4. The word lasercomes from the expression “light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.”
  5. The word laser from the expression, “light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation
  1. Sentence 2 is best written
  2. As it appears
  3. Both radio waves and light waves are forms of energy; nevertheless, neither weak radio waves nor weak light waves harm us.
  4. Both radio waves and light waves are forms of energy; nevertheless, neither weak radio waves nor weak light waves harming us.
  5. Both radio waves and light waves, are forms of energy nevertheless, neither weak radio waves nor weak light waves harm us.
  1. Sentence 3, Producing and transmitting intense light being the purpose of a laser, is best written:
  2. As it appears
  3. Producing, transmitting, and intense light being the purpose of a laser.
  4. Producing and transmitting intensely light being the purpose of a laser.
  5. Producing and transmitting intense light is the purpose of a laser.
  1. Sentence 4 is best written
  2. As it appears
  3. Either a rare metal or a rare gas used for the intensification of light waves.
  4. Either a rare metal, or a rare gas is used, for the intensification of light.
  5. Either a rare metal or a rare gas used for the intensifying of light waves.
  1. Sentence 5 is best written
  2. As it appears
  3. Chromium and Helium were used in early lasers, today various kinds of lamps produce the light that lasers intensify.
  4. Chromium and helium were used in early lasers and, today, various kinds of lamps produce the light that lasers intensify.
  5. Chromium and helium were used in early lasers; today various kinds of lamps produce the light that lasers intensify.
  1. In sentence 6, Electrons and light waves interacting to make the light extremely intense, is best written:
  2. As it appears
  3. Electrons and light waves interact to make the light extremely intense.
  4. Electrons and light waves interacting to the light make extremely intense.
  5. Electrons and light waves interact to making the light extremely intense.
  1. Rewrite the selection (in paragraph form) using the choices you have made above. (20 points)

Outlining Exercise

Title of Research Paper

  1. Early Days of Television
  2. Live Shows
  3. ______
  4. Three Networks
  1. Television innovations of the 1970’s
  2. Recorded Shows
  3. Color Broadcasts
  4. ______
  1. ______
  2. Cable Television
  3. Satellite
  4. Internet Broadcasts
  1. Which of these topics would fit in I.B.?
  1. Sesame Street
  2. CNN
  3. Black and White Shows
  4. Anime Cartoons
  1. Which of these topics would fit in space II.C?
  1. Black and White Movies
  2. I Love Lucy
  3. VHF channels
  4. Rabbit Ear Antennas
  1. What is a good title for section III.?
  1. Television today
  2. History of the USSR
  3. New Television Shows
  4. Foolie Coolie
  1. Which of these would be a good section to add to the outline?
  1. The Future of Television
  2. Martha Stewart Living
  3. Ancient Greek Television
  4. The Andy Griffin Show
  1. What would be a good title for this paper?
  1. Great Disc Jockeys of China
  2. Who Wants to be a Millionaire
  3. Television and Radio
  4. Television History

Research Exercise

Works Cited

Format for books

Author’s Last Name, First Name. Title of book. City of Publisher: Name of Publisher, Year it was published.

Example: Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Scribner, 1948.

  1. Create a Works Cited page using the books below. Put the books in alphabetical order by author’s last name. (20 points) (See Sample Works Cited page below)

The Bird Artist, Howard Norman, Picador USA, New York, 1995.

Bitterroot Landing, Sheri Reynolds, G.P. Putnum’s Sons, New York, 1994.

Awakenings, Oliver Sacks, HarperPerennial, New York, 1990.

Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut, Delacorte Press, Chicago, 1973.

Where Trouble Sleeps, Clyde Edgerton, Workman, New York, 1997.

  1. What book has the earliest publishing date?
  2. Who is the author of Awakenings?
  3. Workman published which book?
  4. What book is listed third in your Works Cited list?
  5. What book was written by Sheri Reynolds?
  6. Which book was not published in New York?

Works Cited

Allen, R.L. The American Farm Book; or Compend of American

Agriculture; Being aPractical Treatise on Soils, Manures, Draining, Irrigation, Grasses, Grain,Roots, Fruits, Cotton, Tobacco, Sugar Cane, Rice, and Every Staple Product ofthe United States with the Best Methods of Planting, Cultivating, and Preparationfor Market. New York: Saxton, 1849. Print.

Baker, Gladys L., Wayne D. Rasmussen, Vivian Wiser, and Jane M. Porter.

Century ofService: The First 100 Years of the United States Department of Agriculture.[Federal Government], 1996. Print.

Danhof, Clarence H. Change in Agriculture: The Northern United States,

1820-1870.Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1969. Print.

Demaree, Albert Lowther. The American Agricultural Press 1819-1860.

New York:Columbia UP, 1941. Print.