Friday, June 3, 2011

Final Exam Review

The following topics will be on the Final exam:
1. Native Americans / Colonial Americans
A. The World on the Turtle's Back
B. The Coyote and the Buffalo
C. Sinner's in the Hands of an Angry God
D. John Smith and Benjamin Franklin
E. The Minister's Black Veil
F. The Raven
2. Know the following authors and what they wrote:
A. Nathaniel Hawthorne
B. Edgar Allen Poe
C. Ralph Waldo Emerson
D. Edith Wharton
E. Robert Frost
F. Ernest Gaines
G. Martin Luther King
H. Neil Simon
3. SAT Vocabulary:
Anomaly, Absolve, Beseech, Conundrum, Deluge, Discredit, Empathy, Ephemeral, Fortuitous, Germane, Hiatus, Humane, Imbibe, Impetuous, Judicious, Karma, Knotty, Lucid, Magnanimous, Meliorate, Neophyte, Obsequious, Onus, Pretentious, Querulous, Rendezvous, Rudimentary, Sagacious, Taciturn, Travesty.
4. A Lesson Before Dying A. Setting
B. Characters
C. Plot
D. Themes
5. Plaza Suite A. Review your notes
6. Literary TermsAllegory, Allusion, Conflict, Connotation, Denotation, Dialect, Elegy, Genre, Hyperbole, Imagery, Irony, Metaphor, Onomatopoeia, Parody, Personification, Simile, Symbol

There are 100 total questions. (Multiple choice, True and False, and Matching) It is worth 50% of your Final Exam grade. The other 50% comes from your essay.
If you create a review sheet and bring it in the day of your exam I will give you extra credit towards your test.