english10 final (literature)

English 10 Final Exam

Review Sheet

Works Covered

Concepts Covered from Grammar Week:

Commas and subordinating conjunctions tacking a dependent clause onto an independent clause
Commas and coordinating conjunctions (fanboys) joining two independent sentences into one compound sentence
Parallel structure in lists (make the intro words match the items)
Subject/verb agreement
Where to place punctuation with quotation marks
Italics vs. Quotation Marks for titles
Colons and Semicolons

Concepts Covered from And Then There Were None:

Concepts Covered from The Scarlet Pimpernel:

Baroness Orczy and her background
How the author's biases show up in the story (French vs. British, aristocrats vs. rebels, her desire to keep British imperialism going even when it was becoming unpopular)
The concept of historical fiction and how she wrote the story 100 years later
The main characters (Percy, Marguerite, Armand, Chauvelin, Andrew, Anthony, Jellyband, Suzanne
Marguerite's background and character development
Percy and Marguerite's relationship arc
The main plot points of The Scarlet Pimpernel and any questions we did for classwork or homework
The POV of the story and how it changes
Common superhero tropes and how they show up in the story
How to figure out words written in another language from context or root

Concepts Covered from Antigone:

The characters of Antigone, Ismene, Creon, Haemon, and Tiresias
The backstory of Oedipus and the fight between his two sons, Polyneices and Eteocles, over the kingship of Thebes
How the top loyalties (family, God, country, law, reputation and dignity) show up in the play
The concept of a chorus and what they do in the play
Tragedy tropes in both Greek and Shakespearean tragedies (outcasted or disabled character with special insight, tragic hero with a tragic flaw, nature acting up to show something is wrong, final comment from a secondary character summarizing the moral of the play)
Who you think the tragic hero is and what their tragic flaw is

Concepts Covered from Macbeth:

Soliloquy (long, alone on stage) vs. Aside (short, others on stage but can't hear)
Blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter)
Characters of the witches, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Duncan, Banquo, Malcolm, Macduff
Supernatural elements (floating dagger, ghost, prophecies from the witches, apparitions)
How emotion is conveyed through spoken text (emphasis, tone
How emotion is conveyed visually (blocking, actions, facial expressions)
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's character arcs
The Great Chain of Being and how it applies in the story and is upended by Macbeth's murders
Macbeth's final soliloquy (Tommorow...) and your reaction to it
What you think is Macbeth's tragic flaw

Concepts Covered from The Poetry Unit:

Definition of poetry: creates an image in a rhythmic way
Consonance, assonance, end stop, enjambment, extended metaphor, juxtaposition: be able to define and recognize; for consonance and assonance be able to write your own example
Basic paraphrasing and theme of "Annabel Lee"
Know how "I Dwell in Possibility" is an extended metaphor and what two things she's comparing
3 requirements of a Lyric Poem
3 requirements of a sonnet
1 additional requirement of a Shakespearean sonnet specifically
Definition of an iamb (one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable)
lambic pentameter (5 iambs)
Blank verse vs. sonnet (unrhymed vs. rhymed iambic pentameter)
The themes of "Sonnet 116" and "Sonnet XXX"
5 requirements of a traditional ballad
History of the Blues as a type of American ballad
Melisma
Be able to analyze a poem with the steps (will be given them, don't have to memorize
Review past literary devices so you can spot them in a poem: repetition, metaphor, simile, alliteration, hyperbole, personification