Edwards

DE English 11 

Fall Exam Review

You will need to know the following for your exam:

1. Who/ What was Bryant influenced by?

2. Bryant’s poetry offers what to the readers of his day?

3. “Thanatopsis” uses what kind of poetic devices to get his message about death across?

4. Who is Rip Van Winkle?

What does he do for a living?

5. Describe Mrs. Van Winkle.

6. What does Rip do while in the mountains?

7. What is missing when he wakes up?

    How long does he sleep?

8. Who is the first person to recognize Rip when he returns to the village?

9. What happens to the country while he sleeps?

10. How is Rip the perfect Romantic hero?

11. In the very beginning of the story, Washington Irving tells that someone was the source of the story. Whom did he name?

12. What is the mood in the opening paragraphs?

13. At the end of the story, do the villagers believe Rip’s story?

You will then read “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe. 

14. How does the narrator feel about the death of Lenore?

What does he do to try to forget her?

15. When he first hears a knock at the door, who does he think it is?

16. What is the word that the bird speaks?

17. How does the arrival of the bird change the narrator?

18. What two colors are used as imagery throughout the poem?

19. Which of your five senses does the poem appeal to?

20. Does Poe uses internal or external rhyme for the poem?

21. What is Lenore compared to?

 You will then answer questions from Of Mice and Men.

22. When does the story take place?

23. Where?

24. What is the dream?

25. Curley wants revenge for…?

26. What happens to Lennie?

27.  Who is Crooks? What does he do?

28. What happens to the puppy? What does it foreshadow?

29. They are on the run because…?

30. What do we know about Curley?

31. the conflict is?

32. What do we know about Curley’s wife?

33. How does the story compare to the story of King Arthur?

34. Who is Slim?

Next are some questions from “Young Goodman Brown”

Know it all, particularly the fine details of the story.

Next are some questions on “Good Country People.”

40. Who is Joy? What do we know about her?

41. Who is Manley Pointer? What do we know about him?

42. Know the details of “Cask of Amontillado.”

43. Know the characters and important facts about the story “Paul’s Case.”

44. “Good Man is Hard to Find”--know the characters, setting, and details.

Know the poetry we have read, including:

“Winter”
“Stopping by Woods”

“Because I Could Not Stop for Death”

“Road Not Taken”
“Dulce et Decorum Est”

“Tyger”
“Lamb”

“Mirror”
“Ozymandias”
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”

“My Last Duchess”
“Meeting at Night”

“Parting at Morning”

“Porphyria’s Lover”

“In Just”

The next section is on “A Rose for Emily.”

44. Foreshadowing.

45. Know Miss Emily’s history and present. 

Next are questions on The Scarlet Letter.

46. Know the story and characters. 

Know the poetry that we have read. 

The next section includes a resume and questions concerning the information on it. 

The last section concerns MLA documentation. 

47. What five items must you have to place a quotation in a paper?

48. What is the correct format for a block quote?

49. What is the correct format for a normal quote?