Section I: Vocabulary & Grammar
Lessons 7-16
These will be in a variety of forms: multiple choice, fill in the blank, and matching.
Examples: (see vocab book, previous tests and attached sample test, although this one included all the lessons from the book-which should remind you that you are fortunate to only be responsible for 2nd semester.)
For Grammar, just review worksheets we have done recently: when to use too, two or to, dessert or desert, etc. and incorporating quotes. Also focus on some punctuation.
Section II: Literary Elements
1 Poem to explain with poetic elements—I actually will most likely give you excerpts from The Merchant of Venice for this.
Quotes from various short stories (explain certain elements of those stories that are revealed by the quotes)
Quotes from Call of the Wild and The Merchant of Venice to put in to context/explain significance to the story.
Examples/Practice:
The Eagle---Fragment by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1851)
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Name one example of alliteration:
Name one example of a simile:
Name one example of personification:
Write a mental image this poem evokes for you:
Explain the significance of the following quote from Call of the Wild:
“At times, when he paused to contemplate the carcasses of the Yeehats, he forgot the pain of it; and at such times he was aware of a great pride in himself,- a pride greater than any he had yet experienced. He had killed a man, the noblest game of all, and he had killed in the face of the law of club and fang.” (p. 87)
Explain the following quote from The Merchant of Venice: Who is the speaker, and what do the different phrases all mean/make the point toward?
I pray you, think you question with the Jew?
You may as well go stand upon the beach
And bid the main flood bate his usual height.
You may as well use question with the wolf
Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb
You may as well forbid the mountain pines
To wag their high tops and to make no noise
When they are fretten with the gusts of heaven.
You may as well do anything most hard,
As seek to soften that—than which what’s harder?—
His Jewish heart. Therefore I do beseech you
Make no more offers, use no farther means,
But with all brief and plain conveniency
Let me have judgment and the Jew his will.
Act IV, Scene 1
Also, you will want to remember fictional elements: Tone, voice, point of view, mood setting, character development in short stories, etc. We’ve read several stories (Bernice bobs her Hair, the Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Slighting of Granny Weatherall, etc.) so remember the overall meaning of these stories. Also, don’t forget that recently we looked at some famous speeches : Churchill’s Their Finest Hour and Blood, Sweat and Tears, and Roosevelt’s Congress Address!
Section III: Essay
You will have a choice of essays here. I am not giving you the exact topics in advance, but they will most likely encompass one of the themes we examined this year:
--identity: what makes us what/who we are?
-- Nature vs. nurture: what place does society hold in shaping us?
-- Prejudice/ Man’s need to dominate another
-- The Survival of the Fittest
You will need to choose the topic you most can defend with examples from what we have examined in class! This essay will need to be well organized, clear and supported with concrete facts.
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