Final Exam Study Guide - ENGLISH 1118 - Reading and Writing Critically II PDF

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English 1118-71 (online) Summer 2015 Study Guide for Final Exam1 There will be six sections, each taken individually2 via the D2L “Quizzes” function:  2 Multiple Choice Sections: (10 minutes each) o Part 1: Literary Terminology (Fiction)  You will have 10 minutes to answer 11 items.  Though I can’t make this exam closed-book, the short amount of time given should encourage you to study before you begin this section. o Part 2: Literary Terminology (Poetry)  You will have 10 minutes to answer 11 items.  Though I can’t make this exam closed-book, the short amount of time given should encourage you to study before you begin this section.  2 Short Answer Sections: Quotations from stories (40 minutes each) o Part 3: Quotation from short stories  Identify and story and author.  Explain the importance of the quotation to the rest of the story.  Go into some depth: 4 to 6 well developed sentences.  You will have choices (you will complete 3 out of 7).  As with the multiple choice section, though I can’t make this exam closed-book, the short amount of time given should encourage you to study before you begin this section. o Part 4: Quotations from Othello  Identify the character.  Explain the importance of the quotation to the rest of the play.  Go into some depth: 4 to 6 well developed sentences.  You will have choices (you will complete 3 out of 6). 

2 Short Essay Sections: 2 Questions (60 minutes (plus a 10 minute grade period) each ) o Part 5: Questions about short stories  You will choose which question to answer and write a 300 – 500 word response. o Part 6: Questions about drama  You will choose which question to answer and write a 300 – 500 word response.

List of Fiction Terms: Fable Moral Parable Plot Dramatic situation Exposition Crisis Climax Suspense Antagonist Hero Foreshadowing Flashback Epiphany Narrator Setting Theme Symbol Point of View (and the different types of point of view discussed in class) Character (stock character, motivation, flat, round, static, dynamic, antihero) List of Poetry Terms: Lyric Poetry Satiric Poetry Dramatic irony Imagery Personification Pun

Narrative Poetry Persona Sarcasm Haiku Apostrophe Onomatopoeia

Dramatic Poetry Irony Denotation Simile Hyperbole Blank verse

Tone Complication Protagonist Resolution Allusion Irony

Tone Verbal irony Connotation Metaphor Understatement Couplet

1 The Final Exam will open on Monday, June 30 at 7:00 a.m. and close on Wednesday, July 2 at 11:59 p.m. 2 This means that you can spread out the sections throughout the time the exam window is open and take them in any order.

Closed Form Tercet

Open Form

Stories: “A & P” “The Tell-Tale Heart” “Everyday Use” “The Storm” “A Pair of Tickets” “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” “The Gift of the Magi” “Brownies” “Dead Man’s Path” “The Yellow Wallpaper” “The Lottery” “The Things They Carried” “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”

Quatrain

Sonnet

“A Rose for Emily” “Miss Brill” “Cathedral” “To Build a Fire” “Greasy Lake” “Barn Burning” “The Story of an Hour” “Harrison Bergeron” “The Chrysanthemums” “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona” “Araby”

For each of these stories, make sure that you know the author, plot, major characters, themes, symbols, setting, and any other important literary aspect relevant to the story. Plays:  Trifles, Sure Thing, Beauty, and Othello o For plays listed above, make sure you know the playwright and the same information that you needed to know for the short stories. Othello  Major Characters: Othello, Iago, Desdemona, Cassio, Rodrigo, Emilia, Brabantio, Bianca.  Quotations: o I.i.9-34 (page 763-764) Iago o I.ii.63-82 (page 772) Brabantio o I.iii.169-171 (page 779) Othello o I.iii.293-294 (page 783) Brabantio o I.iii.371-388 (pages 785 – 786) Iago o II.iii.299-325 (pages 807 – 808) Iago o III.iii.168-174 (page 816) Iago o III.iii.354-359 (page 823) Othello o III.iv.51-64 (pages 828 – 829) Othello o III.iv.99-102 (page 830) Emilia o IV.i.258-262 (page 843) Lodovico o IV.iii.85-104 (page 855 – 856) Emilia o V.ii.128-129 (page 866) Desdemona o V.ii.294-295 (page 872) Othello o V.ii.311-312 (page 873) Iago o V.ii.353-354 (page 874) Othello For each of the quotations, know who is speaking and be able to explain the importance of the quotation to the rest of the play....