Terms

Unit 1:

• Myth: story explaining the actions of gods or heroes

• Tone: author’s attitude towards a subject

• Mood: The way the reader/audience rechieves the message of a story

• Metaphor: comparision using two unalike objects

• Essay: short non-fiction writing that explains something

• Folktale: stories and other works that arrive out of oral tradition

• Genre: type or kind of literature

• Narrative: writing that tells a story

• Point of view: perspective in which the story is told

• Protangist: hero of the story

• Setting: time and place

• Style: the way a writer typically writes

• Theme: the message of the work

Crucible:

• Dialogue: Conversation between 2 or more people

• Motivation: reason a character behaves in a certain matter

• Denoument: anything, any events that occur after the resolution

• Resolution: the way the story works out

Unit 2:

• Aphorism: short witty saying to teach a moral or lesson

• Slant rhyme: rhyme with similar words but not identical sounds

• Personification: attribute human qualities to someting not human

• History: record of occurences of a certain place or people

Great Gatsby

• Archetype: theme or pattern that is similar around the world

• Symbol: item with meaning but stands for something else

Of Mice and Men

• Conflict: struggle between opposing forces

• Dialect: language to a specific region

• Imagery: descriptive or detailed language

Short story

• Flashback: stop current action to go back to tell a piece of information

• Foreshadowing: hints or clues as to what may happen

• Irony: the difference or contrast between what is reality and expectation

Poetry

• Lyric: a poem that expresses feelings

• Quatrain: group of 4 verses, lines, in poetry

• Rhyme scheme: regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem

• Slant rhyme: words look alike but don’t fully rhyme, forced rhyme

• Stanza: section of verses in a poem

TKAM

• Motivation: the reason why a character does something

• Persuasion: any writing written to change the readers opinion

• Stream of concissouness: writing that imiates that natural flow of thought

Grammer

• Resemble ATBs

Novels (and longer works)

TKAM

Character list

• “Arthur” Boo Radley: a neighbor of the Finches’, only comes out at night, recluse, source of entertainment for the town’s gossip, saves the Finch childeren from Bob Ewell

• Atticus: Scout and Jem’s dad, Lawyer, defends Tom Robinson, wise

• Aunt Alexandra: Jem and Scout’s aunt, thinks every family has a streak, thinks that the Finches are a superior family

• Burris Ewell: Only goes to the first day of school as a family tradition

• Calpurnia: Finch family cook, brings the children to church, strict, unsentimental, used to live on the Finches cotton plant

• Cecil Jacobs: scared the Finch children on the way to the Halloween play

• Charles Baker Harris: Dill’s actual name, friends with the Finch kids, only goes to Maycomb in the summer

• Dolphus Raymond: Has mixed children, sits on the “colored” balacony during the trial even though he is white.

• Francis

• Harper Lee: The novel’s author

• Heck Tate: Maycomb’s sheriff

• Jean Louise Finch/ Scout: The narrator of the story, main character

• Jem: Scout’s brother, broke his arm, now disformed

• Judge Taylor:

• Link Deas:

• Mayella Ewell

• Miss Caroline:

• Miss Maudie Atkinson:

• Miss Rachel:

• Miss Stephanie Crawford:

• Mr. Avery:

• Mr. Cunningham:

• Mr. Gilmer:

• Mr. Underwood:

• Mrs. Dubose:

• Nathan Radley Reverend Skyes:

• Robert E. Ewell:

• Simon Finch:

• Tim Johnson:

• Tom Robinson:

• Uncle Jack:

• Walter Cunningham :

Basic info

• Setting is Maycomb, Alabama early 1930s

• Dill is the nephew of Ms. Rachel who is staying with her for the summer

• Scout tells the story

• It starts at the end of the story when Jem’s arm is broken

• The first half is about childhood innocence and the second half is about racism in the South

• Atticus is known for being a very good lawyer

• Atticus impresses the kids because he is wise

• Atticus is a hypocrite when he tells Scout to act a certain way to uphold the family name which is what Aunt Alexandra always says

• Atticus teaches Scout how to get along with people

• Atticus serves the town by being the conscience (he does the difficult work for them)

• Atticus’ definition of brave is having courage even if you know you can’t win

• Calpurnia leads a double life through the way she acts at church and her own home versus how she acts at the Finch house

• Aunt Alexandra comes to live with Atticus to help raise Scout

• Miss Maudie sees the fire as an opportunity to change her garden

• Scout gets the mob under control by talking to Walter’s father

• Heck Tate covers for Boo by saying Bob fell on the knife because Boo saved the kids

• Jem and Scout are parallels of each other

Question examples:

• Atticus is a/an blank when he takes Aunt Alexandra’s side when he tells the children when their ancestory is better than others: A hypocrite

• These two character’s both had misshapen arms: Tom and Jem

Of Mice and Men

• The unoffical leader of the ranch: slim

• Lennie and Candy’s dog are parallels of eachother: both get shot

• Which is not a theme of mice and men: Love concurs all

• Setting is in Salinas California during the Great Depression and Soledad is the nearest town

• George controls Lennie by giving him commands and yelling at him. Lennie controls George by making him feel bad and saying he’s gonna live in a cave

• Messages: man strives for independence, man needs friendship, and you don’t have to be nice to be a good friend

• Parallel Characters: Lennie and Candy’s Dog both got shot in the back of the head; Crooks and Curley’s wife are both lonely

• The characters are all lonely and all want independence on their own farm

• Lennie hides in the brush by the stream from the beginning of the novella when he is in trouble

• The men defer to Slim

• George is angry, Lennie is sad, and Candy saw the loss of the farm coming

• The existential in the novella is that you cannot control Lennie’s disorder

The Crucible

• Parris is angry with his niece at the beginning because: Her dismissal from the Proctor household is causing rumors

• Before her arrest Elizabeth believes that her husband: still desires abigail

• All of the following words descirbe Parris except: Violent

Unit 1

• Captain John Smith descirbed the indians as: barbaric

The Great Gastby

• This character in the Great Gatsby is uncurably dishonest: Jordan Baker

• When Gastby reaches for the green light, he is reaching for all of the following except: Wealth

• This character’s voice was full of money: Daisy

Unit 2

• The piece of revolutionary literature was delivered: The speech at the Virgina Convention/

The Scarlet Letter

• Dimmesdale speaks to Hester during the first scaffold scene to: identify Pearl’s father

• The villagers thought that Pearl’s thoughts and actions were because: of Satan

General History of Virgina

• Written by John Smith

• Tells you how great of a person he is

Sinners in the hands of an angry God

• Written by Johnathan Edwards

• Fire and Brimstone testment style

• Tells everyone that they are going to hell

• Lasted 6 hours

• part of the great awakening

Huswifery

• By Edward Taylor