English 3 Final Exam Review - Second Semester

Vocabulary

  • Fiance(N): A man whom a woman is engaged be married

    • Fiancee (N): A women engaged to be married to a man

  • Confidant(N): A person trusted with secrets or private matters

    • Confide (V)

  • Perjure: to deliberatey lie or testify falsely under oath

    • Perjury: lie or testify falsely under oath

  • Valedictorian(N): the student who has the highest academic rank in a class and who usually delivers the graduation speech

    • Valedictory(N): a closing or farewell statement or address

  • Vanquish(V): To Defeat; to overcome, conquer, or subdue

  • Invaluable(Adj): Priceless

  • Quest(N): A long search for something

  • Conquistador(N): a conqueror, especially one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico

  • Surrogate(N): A substitute

  • Inherent: Inborn

  • Facsimile: An exact copy

  • Gregarious: Sociable

  • adhere: stick to a surface

    • adherent: believer

    • adherence: stick tightly to the prompt

  • annotate: to take note

    • annotation

  • cohere: stick (as one)

    • coherence: stick to together during writing (logical)

    • coherent: logically connected and consistent

    • While both 'cohere' and 'adhere' relate to sticking, 'adhere' means to stick to a surface or belief, while 'cohere' means to stick together as a whole, implying a unified structure or argument.

  • conjure: to produce or summon

    • conjurer: a person who can summon something

  • evaluate: to judge

    • evaluation: tp making a judgement about something

  • explicate: to explain

    • explicable (Adj)

    • explication (N)

  • explicit: Fully and clearly expressed

  • implicit: Implied or understopd through not directly expressed

    • implication(N)

  • inquisitive: curious

  • introspective: examine own feeling

  • interrogate: ask question

  • prevail: more powerful than opposing forces

literature

  • Inference: a educated guess based on evidence and reasoning

  • Textual Evidence: Specific details from the text used to support an analysis or claim

  • Rhetorical Appeals: Logos(logic), Pathos(emotion), Ethos(credibility)

  • Paraphrase: rewriting a passage from a text in your own words, keeping the original meaning

  • Summary: a brief statement of the main points or a text or passage

  • Analyze: To examine how the parts of a text work together to create meaning

  • Finding the Theme: Identifying the central message, lesson, or universal idea in a text

  • Alliteration: Repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning or nearby words

  • Ambiguity: when a word, phrase, or situation has more than one possible meaning; not clear

  • Anecdote: A brief personal story used to illustrate a point or engage the audience

  • Author’s purpose; The reason the author writes — often to persuade, inform, entertain, or express

  • Author’s style: The unique way an author uses, words, sentence structure. figurative language

  • Connotation; the emotional or cultural meaning attached to a word

  • Dialect: A way of speaking that reflects a particular region or group

  • Diction —Formal vs Informal:

    • Formal: Academic or professional language

    • Informal: everyday speed

  • Dynamic vs Static character

    • Static: stay the same

    • Dynamic: change significantly over the story

  • Extended metaphor: a metaphor developed over several lines or throughout a piece

  • Figurative language; Four common types

    • simile: a comparison using like or as

    • metaphor: direct comparison

    • Personification: giving human trais to non-human things

    • Hyperbole: Exaggeration

  • Flashback: A scene that interrupts the present to show something from the past

  • Free Verse: Poetry with no fixed rhyme or meter

  • Imagery: Descriptive language that appeals to the senses

  • Indirect characterization: shows character trait through actions, dialogue, and thoughts rather than direct statements

  • Irony: three types

    • verbal: saying the opposite of what’s meant

    • Situational: the opposite of what expected happens

    • Dramatic: audience knows something the characters don’t

  • Meter: the rhythms of a poem, determined by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

  • Mood: The atmosphere or emotional feeling of a piece

  • Motif: A recurring element that has symbolic significance

  • Motivation: The reason behind a character's actions or goals

  • Paradox: A statement that seems contradictory but reveals a truth

  • Point of view

    • First person: “I” or “we” narration

    • Third person limited: narrator knows thoughts of one character

    • Third person omniscient: All knowing narrator

  • Repetition: Reusing words or phrases for emphasis

  • Slant Rhyme: Words that almost rhyme but not exactly

  • Symbol: An object, character, or event that represents a larger idea

  • Theme: the central idea or message in a work

  • Tone: the author’s attitude toward the subject

  • Historical approach: Analyzing literature by considering the historical context in which it was written

  • American Romanticism: Emphasis on emotion, nature, individualism, and imagination

  • Transcendentalism: Belief in the inherent goodness of people and nature; self-reliance; intuition over reason

  • Realism: Accurate, detailed depictions of ordinary life

  • Regionalism: Focuses on specific geographic areas, capturing dialect, customs, and landscape

  • Naturalism: A form of realism, views humans as subject to nature, heredity, and fate

  • Modernism: Break from tradition; alienation; fragmentation of time and identity

  • Stream of consciousness: Narrative style that presents a character’s thoughts as they occur— disorganized, flowing

  • Harlem Renaissance: African American cultural movement celebrating Black identity, art, and resistance to racism

  • Postmodernism: Irony, fragmentation, metafiction, and skepticism of absolute truths

  • Commentary/ reasoning: Your interpretation or explanation of the evidence — how it supports your argument

  • Citation: Giving credit to the original source using a specific

  • Transition: Words or phrases that connect ideas smoothly

  • Writing effective leads: opening sentences that hook the reader

  • Thesis statement; A clear, arguable sentence that states your main point

  • Revise: rework your draft for clarity, organization, an effectiveness - not just fix grammar

Sentence structure & Grammar

  • Parallelism: using the same grammatical structure in a series or list

  • Fragments and Run-On sentence: An incomplete sentence that lacks a subject or verb, or doesn’t express a complete thought

  • Sentence structure

    • Simple sentence: one independent clause

    • Compound sentence; independent clause joined by a comma

    • Complex sentence: one independent clause + one or more dependent clauses

    • Compound-Complex sentence: two or more independent clauses + one dependent clause

  • Active and Passive Voice

    • Active voice: the subject does the action

    • Passive voice: the subject receives the action

  • Comma Placement Before FANBOYS

    • FANBOYS: For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So

  • Comma Placement After dependent clauses:

    • When a sentence begins with a dependent clause, use a comma before the independent clause

  • MLA citation Format: “quote”(Author Page Number)

  • Basic Plot Events, Characters, and motifs in kindred

    • Main Characters

      • Dana Franklin

      • Kevin Franklin

      • Rufus Weylin

      • Alice Greenwood

      • Tom and Margaret Weylin

    • Motifs

      • Time travel as trauma

      • Literacy and power

      • Heritage and ancestry

      • Survival; vs morality