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Exam Review Guide, June 2008
Mr. Findlay, Mr. Severson, Mr. Wensman _ Thursday, May 28th 12:30-2:30 Exam Structure Part I: Literary & Poetic Terms; //Macbeth, American Primitive// Multiple choice Part II: //Oedipus// //Rex///Greek Theater History/Terms Multiple choice Part III: Short Story Passages Multiple choice Part IV: Extended Paragraph Writing Part V: Essay on //Of Mice and Men// Writing You should bring to the exam multiple writing utensils, water & requisite good luck charms.

Readings __ Macbeth __ by W. Shakespeare Plot, Motifs, Themes, and Characters __ Oedipus Rex __ by Sophocles Plot, themes, characters, and the Greek dramatic history reading __ American Primitive __ by M. Oliver and “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” “Introduction to Poetry,” and “Sonnet 18” by Shakespeare __ Of Mice and Men __ by J. Steinbeck Be ready to write a formal, analytic essay about a main theme using recalled/paraphrased examples – MLA citation will not be required. “Barbie Q,” “My Lucy Friend,” and “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros “Man to Send Rainclouds” by Leslie Marmon Silko “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell “Lady with a Lamp” by Dorothy Parker 1. For each work, review __characters__, major __plot__ events (Freytag’s model), writing style and poetic devices, and __themes__
 * // Short Stories: //**

2. What themes and other characteristics do the works have in common? Ask yourself questions: What point of view does the author choose for each story? Why? What are the major themes and/or motifs? Does the story follow Freytag’s model: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution? You should be able to identify the protagonist/antagonist characters and their relationship/conflict. = =

= Literary Terms & Poetic Devices =

= Be familiar with the terms we have discussed and used in class and be able to apply them to the literature we have read. You should still have definitions for both handed out this term. = = Analytical Writing for Extended Paragraph and Essay =

= To demonstrate what you have learned about organization and development of an analytical piece, you will be asked to write an extended paragraph (Part III) as well as an essay (Part IV). To review: = 1. Review the close analysis paragraphs we wrote on our texts throughout the year. 2. Study the parts of a traditional, multiple-paragraph essay we have discussed. 3. Review the comments you've received on your analytical writing this semester from your teacher. NOTE: If they don't make sense to you, check in with your teacher NOW (you should have done this with each paper, of course, but it's never too late). You should be able to compare the images, characters, or themes in and //Macbeth, Of Mice and Men// and the short stories//.// You should also be able to analyze style, theme, and voice in a poem from //American Primitive.// This paragraph should have a title, introduction, topic sentence, three supporting examples and commentary and a conclusion. Internal transitions are always appreciated. Below are three possible exam questions. Two of the three will appear on the exam. You should be able to craft an effective four or five paragraph essay including an introduction, thesis, topic sentences and conclusion. While exact quotes may be difficult, we expect references to specific moments or ideas as evidence. As you won’t have your book or notes, citations are not required. You may NOT use outlines or notes during the final. > > In this quote from the essay "Tragedy and the Common Man", Arthur Miller redefines the tragic hero. Is George, in OF MICE AND MEN, a tragic hero? Using this definition of the common tragic hero as well as your knowledge of the classical tragic hero (think Oedipus and Macbeth) and using specific examples, explain how George embodies the common tragic hero. **// All work that you do to prepare for and write on this exam must be your own. //** 1. What role does the chorus play? 2. Who delivers the final truth to Oedipus? 3. What does Oedipus’ name mean? 4. Define strophe/antistrophe? 5. Who added the 2nd and 3rd actors to Greek drama? 6. What does “tragedy” mean in Greek? 7. Define the following words: hubris anagnorisis peripetitia deus ex machina catharsis 8. What conflict starts the play? 9. Who says, “You yourself are the pollution of this country? 10. Give 3 examples of the blindness motif? 11. Define Freud’s Oedipus Complex 1. Define a foil character. 2. Macbeth’s foil character is…. 3. Define the Great Chain of Being 4. Who returns as a ghost to disrupt dinner? 5. What prophecies does Macbeth get on his 2nd trip to visit the witches? 6. Whose wife and children does Macbeth have killed? 7. What does “ere” mean? 8. What were two motifs in Macbeth? Give one example of each and the relationship to a larger theme. Sonnet Dramatic Irony Soliloquy Metaphor **Connotation/denotation **Direct characterization (What are the 6 tools of characterization?) Implicit characterization Blank verse Iambic pentameter Capping Couplet Aside Protagonist Image Alliteration Hyperbole Enjambement Apostrophe Allusion 1. “reaching/ my ripped arms” 2. “the black honey of summer” 3. “there is this happy tongue” 4. “looking innocent as sugar” 5. “reckless blossom of weeds” 6. “each bolt a burning river” 7. “Your wings/ crumbling like old bark. Feathers/ falling from your breast like leaves,” 8. “The cold / river of their hatred roils/ day and night” 9.. “What should we say / is the truth of the world? / The miles alone/ in the pinched dark? / or the push of the promise?” 10. “where a pheasant blazes up / lifting his yellow legs / under bronze feathers” 11. “something will explode underfoot/ like a branch of fire; one afternoon/ something will flow down the hill/ in plain view, a muscled sleeve the color/ of all October. 12. “I lift my face to the pale flowers / of the rain. They’re soft as linen / clean as holy water.” 13. “Yet over / the bed of each of us moonlight / throws down her long dark hair” 14. “a taste composed of everything lost / in which everything / lost is found”
 * __ Extended Paragraph: __**
 * __ Essay Question: __**
 * 1) In //Of Mice and Men//, George and Lennie differ from the others at the ranch because, as Lennie says, “I got you to look after me and you got me to look after you” (Steinbeck 14). Back at the ranch, characters live together but feel alone. Choose three kinds of isolation presented by the novel and discuss how particular characters embody each of them.
 * 1) Steinbeck locates // Of Mice and Men // in three places -- a glade near the Salinas River, the ranch bunkhouse, and the ranch barn. Explain how Steinbeck relates each of these three places to the dream that Lennie, George, and the others share.
 * 1) "I think the tragic feeling is evoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing--his sense of personal dignity. From Orestes to Hamlet, Medea to Macbeth, the underlying struggle is that of the individual attempting to gain his "rightful" position in his society."
 * English 9 Exam Review- **
 * Oedipus Rex- **
 * Macbeth!! **
 * Terms: **
 * Poetic Devices- Name the device(s) for each of the following phrases. **