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Review sheet for Midterms 2014-2015
Pieces:
“Sonata for Harp and Bicycle” By Joan Aiken
“The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe
“The Golden Kite, The Silver Wind” by Ray Bradbury
“The Man to send Rainclouds” by Leslie Marmon Silko
“Old Man of the Temple” by R. K. Narayan
“The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell
“The Necklace” by Guy de Maussapant
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Terms:
1. Fiction: A type of writing that tells about imaginary characters or events. Some authors
also base fiction on real people or events
2. Plot: the sequence of events in a literary work
3. Exposition: writing or speech that explains a process or presents information. It is the
part of a work that introduces the characters, the setting and the basic situation.
4. Conflict- a struggle between opposing forces. There are two kinds of conflict: external
and internal.
5. Rising action- all events leading up to the climax
6. Falling action- leads to the denouement, or resolution, in which a general insight or
change is conveyed.
7. Resolution: denouement, or resolution, in which a general insight is conveyed.
8. Character: a person or an animal that takes part in the action of a literary work; There is
usually a protagonist (the good guy) and an antagonist (The bad guy)
9. Characterization: The Act of creating and developing a character. There are 2 diffeerent
types: direct and indirect
10. Irony: General term for literary techniques that portray differences between appearance
and reality, or expectation and result.
11. Setting: The Setting of a literary work is the time and place of the action. Time can refer
to past, present or future, year season or time of day. Place may include the geographical
place or environment.
12. Theme: The Central message or insight into life, it may be stated or implied.
13. Point of view: Directs the amount and type of information the writer reveals (Who is
telling the story)
14. Suspense: A feeling of uncertainty about the outcome of events in a literary work.
Writers create suspense by raising questions in the minds of the readers.
15. Mood: The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage.
16. Gothic:
Vocabulary:
2 Sections
1) I will write sentences like the “Choose the right word” section of each unit—all 8 units of
vocabulary are fair game!
2) Using some of these vocabulary words, I will ask questions about things we have covered this
semester: Stories, mostly. For that section of the test, these are the words you need to know:
Bereft
Insidious
Warily
Averse
Benevolent
Impetus
Adversary
Coerce
Demise
Urbane
Ascertain
Disperse
Malevolent
Benefactor
Clemency
Temerity
Destitute
Ironic
Solace
Amend
Inter
Vociferous
Apprehensive
Ingenuous
Recalcitrant
Grammar:
1. Verb- a verb is a word that is used to express action or a state of being
2. Noun: a word or group of words that is used to name a person, place, thing or idea
3. Adjective: A word that is used to modify a noun or pronoun
4. Adverb: A word that modifies a verb, an adjective or an adverb
5. Pronoun: A word that is used in place of one or more nouns or pronouns
6. Preposition: A word that shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun to another
word.
7. Conjunction: A word that joins words or groups of words
8. Interjection: A word that expresses emotion
You will have to identify these parts of speech; you will have to use them. You will also have to
know the 55 prepositions.
Types of questions:
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Matching: Term to definition; character to description; character to story
Identify: What character does this describe? To which story does this refer?
Grammar: Identify which words are (any part of speech); correct the sentence
Vocabulary: Complete the sentence with the better choice; Answer this question about
the text (the table of vocabulary words is used for this part).
Written responses: 1-3 sentences, paragraph length, essay