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Humanities I Final Exam Review
Fall 2024
I. English:
You will be required to read passages from Philosophers, Poets, and Playwrights and answer questions about the passages. Some questions will require you to look at certain lines of the passage, or certain words and usage, while others will require you to look at the selection as a whole.
Here are examples of skills that you will be required to answer:
What is a poetic device? Why would the author have used this?
What is a poetic apostrophe? Give an example of an apostrophe.
What is imagery? Why would an author use this device?
What is irony? What are the three forms of irony? Why would an author use irony?
What is the theme of a piece?
What is figurative language? Why would an author use this?
What are examples of repetition? Why would an author use repetition?
What is a chorus in a Greek play? What was the purpose of the Greek chorus?
What is parallelism? Why might an author use this device?
Summarize a given selection in your own words.
What is the main idea of a given selection?
What is the meaning of a word given the context?
What is the effect of using poetic language?
What is the attitude expressed in a specific selection?
F. Proofreading and Editing: Read the following paragraph and correct any errors in grammar, spelling, and mechanics.
Vergil's great epic poem the “Aeneid” is an exciting tale of love and adventure set in the early days of rome’s mythic history. The story of the hero Aeneas journey from the fall of the Trojan war to the founding of the roman people have been loved by generations of readers. Some people in the middle ages beleived that Vergil had magical powers and could foretell the future, therefore they changed the spelling of his name to “Virgil,” because it was spelled similar to “virga” the Latin word for magic wand. The story begins as all epics do in the middle of things, Aeneas is arriving on the shores of Carthage a country ruled by the beautiful Dido. Dido asks Aeneas to share his story with her and he regales her with the exciting tails of the fall of Troy and of his voyages around the Mediterranean. Interestingly these stories paralleled the adventures of Odysseus, the hero of Homers epic the “Odyssey.” Because he tells such an exciting tale Dido falls in love with Aeneas, and wants him to remain in Carthage as her husband. Although, he wants to be with her and loves her in return, Aeneas knows he has a destiny to fulfill and soon sails away to follow the will of the Gods. In grief, Dido commit’s suicide by impaling herself on Aeneas sword but she first curses Aeneas and his descendants. Her curse sets up a long standing conflict between the Romans and the Carthaginians which creates a legendary historical basis for the later punic wars. Aeneas doesnt learn of Didos death, until he visits the underworld where he sees the spirit of Dido who refuses to acknowledge him.
1. Which sentence in the paragraph does not belong, and why?
Combine the following sentences in three different, correctly written ways:
Aeneas represents the virtues of a great Roman hero.
These include unquestioning devotion to the gods and patriotism.
This is why his personality is so unlike that of Greek heroes like Achilles and Odysseus.
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Literary terms to know:
Poetic devices:
alliteration
allusion
assonance
hyperbole
imagery
metaphor
onomatopoeia
parallel structure (parallelism)
paradox
personification
repetition
rhyme
simile
Other literary terms:
mood
inference
theme
tone
Terms related to epics and drama:
chorus
deity
epic hero
epic poetry
epithet
Homeric/epic simile
hubris
muse
tragedy (review characteristics)
II. World History
Identify the following characteristics for the states below.
historical background (founders)
general geographic features
political organization
major religious and philosophical ideas
major artistic and intellectual ideas
social structures (classes, position of women, & gender roles)
reasons for decline & collapse (especially classical)
East Asia
Chinese dynasties: Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han
European
Byzantine Empire, Medieval Western Europe; Feudalism, End of the
Middle Ages
South Asia
Mohenjo Daro, Harappa
Maurya, Gupta India, Delhi Sultanate
Middle East
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Persia
Umayyad, Abbasid Caliphates
Mediterranean
Greek city-states: Athens, Sparta
Alexander the Great’s empire
Roman Republic, Empire
Africa
West African kingdoms: Mali, Ghana, Songhai
East African kingdoms: Axum, Zimbabwe
Mesoamerican - Olmec
Importance of trade including the role of the Silk Road, Indian Ocean, and Trans- Saharan trade routes and connections between societies.
Be able to compare religions and regions during the Classical period. Summarize the Classical and Post Classical time periods.
Terms to know:
Neolithic Revolution
Bantu
Black Death
Hammurabi
Hebrews
Monotheism
Cuneiform
Shi Huangdi
Mandate of Heaven
Chinese dynastic cycle
Confucianism
Crusades
Legalism
Daoism
Ancestor worship
Hinduism
Hundred Years War Caste system
Siddhartha Gautama
Buddhism
Ashoka
democracy
Augustus Caesar
Romanization
Jesus
Justinian
Christianity
Muhammad
Islam
Sunni
Shi’ite
Sufi
cultural borrowing
III. Humanities
Architecture/Art/ Music
Buddhist Statues (compare)
Buddhist Stupas
Byzantine and Islamic Mosaics
Cave Paintings
Comparison of Mosques
Discus Thrower
Dome
Early Southeast Asian Art
Egyptian Pyramids
Grand Mosque at Mecca
Great Wall of China
Great Zimbabwe
Gregorian Chants
Hagia Sophia
Hindu Temples
Islamic Calligraphy
Islamic call to prayer
Minaret
Mosque
Olmec Heads
Parthenon
Pillars of Ashoka
Roman Architecture
Terracotta Soldiers
Ziggurat
Drama/Literature:
Catharsis
Chorus
Iliad
Tragedy (characteristics)
Epic (characteristics)
Gilgamesh
Oedipus
Sundiata
Rumi poetry
Philosophy and Religion (main beliefs, holy cities, similarities, differences):
Aristotle
Buddhism
Christianity
Confucianism
Daoism
Hinduism
Islam
Judaism
Legalism
Plato
Socrates
Zoroastrianism
Civilizations: (For each: description of humanities, types of art, purposes of art, what was borrowed by other civilizations)
Mesopotamia (Sumeria, Babylon)
Byzantine
Egyptian
Chinese
Greek
Middle Ages Europe
Persian
Roman
Islamic
