ENGLISH 3 MID-TERM REVIEW
Schwarz/New/Lovaglio
BEOWULF
ANONYMOUS
Main Characters
Beowulf; superhuman strength, boasted of his past
deeds. Defeats the enemies: Grendel, Grendel’s mother,
Dragon.
 Plot: Beowulf defends the Danish Empire from evil.
Theme: Good vs. Evil
Kenning: a metaphor
 ex. “whale road” for the ocean
Alliteration: repetition of beginning sounds
“CONTENTS OF A DEAD MAN’S POCKETS”
BY: JACK FINNEY
 Theme: epiphany (a realization of great truth)
 Main Character: Tom Benecke
 Plot: Tom is a young business man who wants a
promotion. One wintery evening, Tom’s wife leaves to
attend the movies, his paper flies out the window and
he attempts to retrieve it by climbing out on the ledge.
After a few near death experiences he realizes his
relationship with his wife, Claire is more important
than work.
 Lit. Device: Imagery: author describes Tom’s situation
using the five senses-the reader is able to visualize the
scenario.
“ONE LEGGED CRANE”
GIOVANNI BOCCACIO
Main Characters
Chichibio- chef who cooks a crane for his master
Currado- master, angry because crane was served with
one leg
Plot-Chichibio gives a leg of a crane to his girlfriend and
needs to explain how cranes only have one leg.
Theme- use of wit and humor can get you out of a
tricky situation (irony: lit device)
MOLE PEOPLE
BY: JENNIFER TOTH
 Main Character: Bernard, a homeless man living in the abandoned
underground subway tunnels in NYC. Bernard is the “Lord of the
Tunnel” because he protects the people living in the tunnel. He
describes himself as “animalistic.”
 Plot: Bernard relates his tale of how and why he and other homeless
people live in the subway tunnels.
 Theme: “Survival”
 Literary Devices: Jennifer Toth is a journalist, she interviewed the
people living in the tunnels to write her novel
MACBETH
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
 Plot: 3 witches prophesize that Macbeth will be king
 Lady Macbeth (evil) convince him to kill King Duncan
 Macbeth his ambition is his downfall.
 Theme: “Fair is foul and foul is fair”
(what is good is bad and what is bad is good)
This is irony and appearance versus reality.
Characters: Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Duncan, Banquo,
Macduff, Malcolm
Lit. terms: soliloquy, irony, color imagery, and symbolism
SNIPER
LIAM O’FLAHERTY
Setting: Dublin, Ireland
Main Character: young soldier hardened by the
civil war
Plot: fools enemy soldier by putting his cap on
his rifle barrel above the rooftop.
Brother kills brother.
Theme: Sometimes war is senseless.
 Lit. terms: realism
“PARDONER’S TALE”
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
Setting: Middle Ages during the Black
Plague
Characters: Pardoner, three drunken
rioters, old man
Plot: 3 rioter searching for “Death”
Found gold coins; the rioters became
greedy and killed each other
Theme: “Greed is the root of all evil.”
Lit term: irony, exemplum (sermon)
LITERARY TERMS
 Tone: the author’s voice conveyed through the story
 Stanza: is a group of lines that are part of a poem
 Theme: main idea of a story
 Author’s purpose: the reason an author decides to write
about a specific topic
 Point of view: the perspective from which the story is told
 Narrator: the person who is telling the story
 Irony: words or situations when the intended meaning is
different from the actual meaning of the words
FLOCABULARY WORDS
 Anarchy: state of lawlessness, confusion or disorder
 Tract: an area, expanse or region
 Wrangle: to argue or dispute; rope an animal
 Desolate: without any people; dismal and devastated
 Exceptional: unusual or extraordinary
 Legendary: very famous or well-known for a certain reason
 Crusade: a military expedition; a campaign for a cause
 Bizarre: unusual, odd or outrageous
 Modify: to change; to amend
 Preposterous: foolish or absurd
CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE
Use the APE Format
A: Answer the prompt. Rewrite the prompt
to a statement.
P: Prove your response using facts/details
from the literature.
E: Extend your response using personal
details to connect to the literature.