Gifted English II Exam Review

Gifted English II
Semester Examination Study Guide

We will be extensively reviewing for the semester examination over the two days preceding the test. Go ahead and begin to gather your class notes and character lists to ameliorate any problems we have in preparing for this test—it’s long. Muhahahahahahahaha.

Format of Examination:
-Multiple Choice
-True/False
-Matching (Characters and Authors of the Day)
Subject Areas Covered:
Mini-Unit--Literature of Irony
“The Pedestrian”
“The Storyteller”
“Where Have You Gone, Charming Billy?”
Short Fiction
Example—“The Cold Equations”
“My Melancholy Face”
Non-Fiction
Literary Terms in Context/Examples (see list of 120 terms)
Greco-Roman Mythology
-Gods and Goddesses
-Ovid’s “Metamorphoses” (Daedalus and Icarus)
-Sophocles’ Antigone
-The Literature of Horror
Edgar Allan Poe
Psychological Backgrounds of Horror
“Pit and the Pendulum”
-The Novel
The Stranger
Existentialism
Death of a Salesman
The Count of Monte Cristo
Candide
Things Fall Apart
-FCAT Reading Comprehension
There will be a passage you have never seen before on the test; read it over and answer the corresponding questions.
-The Literature of the Bible
-PSAT Vocabulary and Comprehension
-General Grammar (proofreading a small passage)
-The Literature of Satire
“A Modest Proposal”
“Top of the Food Chain”
Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail
Media Literacy—Bert the Turtle

Figurative Language to Know
-metaphor -symbol
-simile -structure
-personification -allegory
-conceit -alliteration
-iambic pentameter -theme
Character Identifications
-Gods and Goddesses
-Zeus -Dionysus
-Hera -Hades
-Aphrodite -Poseidon
-Hermes -Hephaestus
-Athene(a) -Cronus
-Deadalus and Icarus
-Antigone
Antigone Haimon
Ismene Teiresias
Creon Polyneices
Eurydice Eteocles
Choragos Sentry
NOTE: Know the background of the House of Thebes (the Oedipus story)
-Horror Literature
-Vlad the Impaler
-Countess Elizabeth of Bathory
-protagonist in “Pit”
-Carl Jung and the Iceberg Metaphor
-Novels (see notes for each novel/character lists)
Characters to emphasize-- Mersualt/Maman/Salamano/Marie/Raymond/Celeste
Willy Loman/Biff/Happy/Linda/Charlie/Uncle Ben
Edmond Dantes/Mercedes/Fernand/Caderousse/Faria
Danglars/Villefort/Valentine/Maximilien Morrel
Haydee/LuigiVampa/Candide/Cunegonde/Pangloss/The Anabaptist/Okonkwo/Ekwefi/Ezinma/Nwoye/
Ikemefuna/The Missionaries/Chielo/Agbala
-Authors of the Day:

Garcia Marquez
Baudelaire
Thomas Aquinas
James Baldwin
Alice Walker
Anne Rice
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Carl Hiaasen
Sophie Kinsella
George Gordon, Lord Byron
John Keats
Jane Austen
Robert Coover
Vaclav Havel
Leo Tolstoy

Additional Notes or Things I Forget Until the Last Minute to Tell You About: