Semester Exam Review

Semester Exam Review

            The semester exam will be in three parts: fiction, poetry, and writing/revising.  For the fiction section, you will read a short story, analyze it, and answer eighteen related questions.  The poetry section will require the reading and analysis of two poems and responses to nineteen questions.  The writing/revising section will include two passages which you will read and then determine the best changes to be made in the passages (fourteen questions) as well as a written component.  Your final section will include eighteen questions demonstrating your understanding of terms discussed throughout this semester. 

            To review for this exam, I suggest you review your notes and literary terms (all of them).  You should have all of these in your notebook; if not, check out a friend's notebook or my main notebook.  You will need to reveiw these terms.   

Literary Terms

Discuss the differences between fiction and non-fiction.

In what forms can fiction be found?

Narrator

What must you consider when analyzing the narrator?

Character

Character types include

1)

2)

Characterization

            The methods of characterization include

1) direct

2)indirect

·         S

·         T

·         E

·         A

·         L

Point of view

The four types of literary point of view include

1)

2)

3)

4)

Conflict

Conflict can be divided into

1)

2)

a)

b)

c)

d)

Plot

     The parts of the plot include (describe function of each):
     1)
     2)
     3)
     4)
     5)

Theme

Cannot:

-

-

Must:

-

-

Poetry Terms

Speaker

Stanza

Couplet

Quatrain

Rhyme scheme

Free verse

Tone

Mood

Lyric poem

Narrative poem

Figurative language

·         Imagery

·         Simile

·         Metaphor

·         Personification

·         Hyperbole

·         Allusion

·         Symbolism

·         Paradox

·         Oxymoron

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Sound devices

·         Alliteration

·         Assonance

·         Consonance

·         Rhyme

o   End rhyme

o   Internal rhyme

o   Slant or half rhyme

·         Onomatopoeia

·         Anaphora

·         Diacopic

·         Repetition
 

Writing/Revising Terms

Parts of an Essay

    1) 

         This paragraph __________________________________________ and  

         contains the ___________

   2)

         These paragraphs ________________________________________, and they 

         contain a ___________ and the ______________________.

   3)

         This paragraph ___________________________________________.
Revise

Relevant

Transition

Sentence Types

    1)

    2)

    3)

    4)

Sentence Errors

    1)

    2)

    3)

Coordinating conjunction 
     F
     A
     N
     B
     O
     Y
     S

Subordinating conjunctions
     Words to watch include:

Introductory elements

Common word usage/confusion

Subject-verb agreement

Pronoun agreement

Use of apostrophes
Contractions