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Historical Background

Covers Units 3 and 4 content.

Exam Questions Form

Includes True/False and Multiple Choice.

Mark Twain

Author of 'The Notorious Jumping Frog'.

Jack London

Wrote 'To Build a Fire'.

Inktitut Poem

Author of 'I Arise from Rest'.

Chief Joseph

Wrote 'I Will Fight No More Forever'.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Author of 'Douglass' and 'We Wear the Mask'.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Wrote 'Luke Havergal' and 'Richard Cory'.

Edgar Lee Masters

Author of 'Lucinda Matlock'.

Willa Cather

Wrote 'A Wagner Matinee'.

T.S. Eliot

Author of 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'.

Ezra Pound

Wrote 'In a Station of the Metro'.

William Carlos Williams

Wrote 'The Red Wheelbarrow' and 'The Great Figure'.

H.D.

Author of 'Pear Tree'.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Wrote 'The Great Gatsby'.

Dialogue Matching

Match dialogue to speaker in 'The Great Gatsby'.

Literary Terms

Match terms to their definitions.

Incongruity

A mismatch between expectations and reality.

Hyperbole

Exaggerated statements not meant to be taken literally.

Social Commentary

Critique of society through literature.

Dialect

Regional speech patterns in literature.

Internal Conflict

Struggle within a character's mind.

External Conflict

Struggle between a character and outside forces.

Setting

Time and place of a story.

Irony

Contrast between expectation and reality.

Dramatic Irony

Audience knows something characters do not.

Formal Verse

Poetry adhering to specific structures.

Petrarchan Sonnet

14-line poem with an octave and sestet.

Rhyme Scheme

Pattern of rhymes in a poem.

Plot

Sequence of events in a story.

Characters

Individuals in a narrative.

Speaker

Voice narrating a poem or story.

First Person Point of View

Narrative from the 'I' perspective.

Theme

Central idea or message in literature.

Dramatic Monologue

Speech revealing a character's thoughts.

Allusions

References to other texts or events.

Imagism

Poetic movement emphasizing precise imagery.

Sijo

Korean poetic form with three lines.

Metaphor

Direct comparison between two unlike things.

Simile

Comparison using 'like' or 'as'.

Metonymy

Substituting a related term for an object.

Synecdoche

A part representing the whole.

Paradox

Contradictory statement revealing a truth.

Oxymoron

Contradictory terms combined.

Understatement

Deliberate presentation of something as less.

Personification

Attributing human traits to non-human things.

Writing Process Steps

Tentative Thesis, Collect Evidence, Analyze Evidence, Revise Thesis, Outline Paper.

Parts of a Paragraph

Topic sentence, Introduction to evidence, Evidence, Analysis, Conclusory sentence.