Name________________________
Eng. II
Westberg
Study Guide
The study guide is a tool to help you study for your second semester final. The study guide will not
provide answers but guide your study so that you will be prepared for the final. We will review the final
and you will be asked to take notes and participate in your own learning experience. Remember to take
advantage of tutoring hours and ask questions in class.
Literature:
A Separate Peace-John Knowles
Study the Packet Concerning A Separate Peace:
Setting-WWII / Devon
Characters-Know all the characters and what they symbolize
Theme: The Threat of Codependency to Identity / The Creation of Inner Enemies
Symbols: Finny’s Fall / WWII
Literature:
Antigone: Written by Sophocles
Vocabulary: #814 / #838
Antigone is a Greek tragedy and follows Aristotle’s formula for Greek Tragedy. Review this formula and
be able to apply the formula to the plot.
Not much is known about Sophocles information about Sophocles can be found on page #813 of your
text book.
Preceding Antigone is the play Oedipus Rex, we did not read the play but reviewed it and it will be
helpful for you to review the play as well.
You will need to know: Plot and plot structure/ characters / themes / figurative language / symbols /
foreshadowing/ importance of the Greek chorus /importance of the choragos
Important Themes in Antigone:
Fate versus Freewill / Women’s Rights / The State versus the Individual / Burial Rights
Important Symbols:
Creon’s Attack / Eurydice’s Knitting
Birth of the Western Theater:
Information can be found on #808-809
Poetry: Know the authors biography
Vocabulary-#640 / Narrative Poem / LyricPoem
Pushkin-The Bridegroom
Lorca-The Guitar
Bishop-The Fish
Kipling-Danny Deever
Vocabulary-#656 /Speaker in Poetry
Frost-Mowing
Nye-Making a Fist
Williams-Spring and All
Vocabulary-#675 / Poetic Forms / Haiku /Tanka
Thomas-Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Toshiyori-The Clustering Clouds
Tsurayuki-When I Went to Visit
Vocabulary-#682
Roethke-Waking
Shakespeare-Sonnet 18
Jakuren-One cannot ask loneliness
Komachi-Was it that I went to sleep
Mistral-Fear
Brooks-Bean Eaters
Eco-How to Read Two Familiar Faces
Possible Essay Questions:
1. Discuss the importance of setting in specific scenes through-out the novel, especially in regard to what it reveals
about characters and events. How do natural settings contrast with or complement the thematic content of certain
scenes?
2. 4. Discuss the symbolism of Finny’s fall. Is A Separate Peace a novel of sin and redemption? Is Gene redeemed in
the end?
3. Antigone is a Greek Tragedy that centers on fate versus freewill. Provide an argument for whether or not Antigone
has free will or if her actions are guided by fate.
4. Discuss Creon’s tragic flaw that drives the tragedy. How does Creon represent the tragic hero? Provide examples
from the text.
Figurative language:
Speaker/ Narrative Poem / Lyric Poem / Imagery / Poetic Form / Sonnet / Tanka / Haiku / Tone / Mood / Analogy /
Simile / Metaphor / Personification / Sound Devices / Alliteration / Assonance / Consonance / Onomatopoeia /
Allegory / ALLUSION / Anecdote / Antagonist / Protagonist / Aside / Atmosphere / Autobiographical Essay / Ballad /
Biography / Blank Verse / Character / Characterization / Climax / Conflict / Connotation / Couplet / Denotation /
Description / Descriptive Essay / Dialect / Dialogue / Diction / Direct Characterization / Drama / Dramatic Irony /
Dramatic Monologue / Epic / Epiphany / Exposition / Expository Essay / Falling Action / Fiction / Flashback /
Foreshadowing / Genre / Haiku / Hyperbole / Idiom / Indirect Characterization / Irony / Metaphor / Moral / Motivation /
Myth / Narration / Narrative / Narrative Essay / Narrative Poem / Narrator / Nonfiction / Novel / Onomatopoeia / Oral
Tradition / Oxymoron / Paradox / Personification / Persuasion / Persuasive Rhyme / Rhyme Scheme / Round
Character / / Plot / Point of View / Prose / Protagonist / Pun / Quatrain / Repetition / Resolution / Round Character /
Sensory Language / Setting / Short Story / Simile / Soliloquy / Sonnet / Speaker / Stanza / static Character /Style /
Surprise Ending / Symbol / Theme / Tone / Tragedy / Understatement / Universal Theme / Verbal Irony /
Passage ID: You will also have passage ID on the Test
Id the passage / Author
Discuss the importance of the passage to the overall passage
Consider figurative language / Theme / Symbols / Key Moments if a Larger Piece of Literature