ENGLISH III FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE

Myth

Creation Myth

Polytheism

Monotheism

Puritan

Iroquois Tribe

The World on the Turtle’s Back

Cabeza De Vaca

La Relacion

Anne Bradstreet

Up the Burning of My House

John Winthrop

City Upon a Hill

Phillis Wheatley

“On Being Brought from Africa to America”

Olaudah Equiano

“The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano”

What is the “City on a Hill” theory?

What is a “theocracy”?

In the following excerpt from “Verses upon the Burning of Our House (1666)” by

Anne Bradstreet, the poem’s speaker grieves the loss of her home while also...

The flame consume my dwelling place.

And when I could no longer look,

I blest His grace that gave and took,

That laid my goods now in the dust.

Yea, so it was, and so 'twas just.

It was his own; it was not mine,

Far be it that I should repine;

He might of all justly bereft

But yet sufficient for us left.

(Lines 12 - 20)

Puritan

Red Scare

Theocracy

Hysteria

Faith

Morality

Integrity

Justice

Why were women, children, and the mentally ill believed to be tools for Stan’s work?

Which of the following things were ILLEGAL in a Puritan society?

For which of these events was the play “The Crucible” an allegory?

Empirical thinking

Logical reasoning

Individualism

Skepticism

Natural Rights

Revolution

Thomas Payne

The Crisis

Congress

The Declaration of Independence

Which literary period inspired many Revolutions, such as the American and French Revolutions?

Read the following quote and determine which literary period it best represents.

"The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman,"

Which literacy elements BEST define Enlightenment?

Classic Romanticism

Transcendentalism

Gothic

Sublime

Ideal

Imagination

Spirituality

Nature

Extreme emotion

Macabre

Uncanny

Innate

Intuition

Emily Dickinson (Classic)

Grief is a Mouse, I’m Nobody! Who are you?, “Hope” is a thing with feathers

Walt Whitman (Transcendentalism)

I Hear American Singing

Henry David Thoreau (Transcendentalism)

Solitude

Ralph Waldo Emerson (Transcendentalism)

Self-Reliance, Limits

Edgar Allan Poe (Gothic)

The Masque of the Red Death, The Raven, “Alone”

Using metaphors, how does Dickinson most accurately describe grief?

The cultural shift to Romanticism was a reaction to the ideals of the Enlightenment. Choose the answer that best describes the shift.

Read the following quote and determine which literary era it best represents.

"Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events,"

Naturalism

Reality

Ideal v Actual

Jack London

To Build a Fire

Read the following quote and determine which literary era it best represents.

"He wondered whether the toes were warm or whether they were numb. He moved them inside the moccasins and decided that they were numb,"

Modernism

Moral decay

Greed

Roaring 20s

Social status

Read the quote below and determine which theme the quote BEST contributes to:

"When he had gone half way he turned around and stared at the scene–[McKee's] wife and Catherine scolding and consoling as they stumbled here and there among the crowded furniture with articles of aid, and the despairing figure on the couch bleeding fluently and trying to spread a copy of Town Tattle over the tapestry scenes of Versailles," (Fitzgerald 37).

What do the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg represent?

In Chapter 7, in the Plaza Hotel room, why does Daisy, "[draw] further and further

into herself," (Fitzgerald 134)?

Vietnam War

Draft

Utopia

A place, state, or condition that is ideally perfect in respect of politics, laws, customs, and conditions

Futuristic

Takes place in future settings, featuring advanced technology, space travel, and speculative societies

Oppressive

Cautionary Tale

A story, experience, or situation that serves as a warning to others

Propaganda

Restrictions

Surveillance

Dehumanization

Conformity

Corporate

One or more large corporations control society through products, advertising, and/or the media

Bureaucratic

Society is controlled by a mindless bureaucracy through a tangle of red tape, relentless regulations, and incompetent government officials

Technological

Society is controlled by technology — through computers, robots, and/or scientific means

Philosophical

Society is controlled by philosophical or religious ideology often enforced through a dictatorship or theocratic government

Religious

Ray Bradbury

The Pedestrian, The Sound of Thunder, The Last Night of the World, The Veldt

Shirley Jackson

The Lottery

What is the purpose of dystopian literature?

A futuristic, imagined universe in which oppressive societal control and the illusion of a perfect society are maintained through corporate, bureaucratic, technological, moral, or totalitarian control

Which form of dystopian control is best displayed in the following scenario?

Moving has been prohibited. Walls have been put up around all 50 states, and citizens are forced to stay in their home states forever. Every 10 years, the borders open, and 5 citizens are allowed to leave each state. Unbeknownst to everyone else, those people are captured immediately and tortured for insubordination.

In "The Lottery," which literary device is used in the following line?

"School was recently over for the summer, and the feeling of liberty sat uneasily on most of them." (Jackson 1)

Metaphor

Simile

Irony

Foreshadow

Imagery

Hyperbole

Poem

Stanza

Dialogue