Accelerated American Literature – 9
SAT Prep
Final Exam Review
Part 1: Reading Comprehension
Passage #1: Puritan Writing
What can I review?
Puritan beliefs
Puritan plain style
Passage #2: Selection from Ben
Franklin’s Autobiography
What can I review?
Deist beliefs
Notes on Franklin’s style in his
Autobiography
Passage #3: Realist / Naturalist
Writing
What can I review?
What is Realism and
Naturalism?
Literary terms: diction, imagery
Passage #4: Postmodernist Poem
What can I review?
What is Postmodernism?
Literary terms: theme, imagery
Part 2: Short Answer Questions
Short Answer Questions
1. Non-conformity in The Crucible,
Fahrenheit 451, & To Kill A
Mockingbird?
Short Answer Questions
2. Motif of courage in literature?
Short Answer Questions
3. Age in Benjamin Button?
Part 3: Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Sentence Completion:
Because of her charitable donations to find
homes for dogs and cats with only three
legs, Shaniqua received an award for her
---.
A. philanthropy
B. belligerence
C. pedagogue
D. divest
Vocabulary
Sentence Completion:
The rising cost of gas caused --- toward
gas companies as more people lost jobs
and could not afford to fill up their cars.
A. equanimity
B. dismal
C. accord
D. animosity
Vocabulary
Roots:
If you know the meaning of FUS, and
SUF means “beneath,” what does
Suffuse likely mean?
A. To put from beneath
B. To speak from beneath
C. To hold from beneath
D. To pour from beneath
Vocabulary
Roots:
If you know the meaning of LOG, and
PRO means “before,” what does
Prologue likely mean?
A. To speak before
B. To sing before
C. To sound before
D. To love before
Part 4: Grammar / SAT Prep
Grammar / SAT Prep
Sentence Revisions:
Waiting for the bus to arrive, the snow began to fall
heavier around the students.
A. Waiting for the bus to arrive, the snow
began to fall heavier around the students
B. Waiting for the bus to arrive, the students
watched the snow begin to fall heavier around
them
C. The students were waiting for the bus to
arrive, the snow began to fall heavier around
the students
Grammar / SAT Prep
Sentence Revisions:
The depths of the Arctic Ocean are hard to study mainly
because the icy surface is being difficult to penetrate
using current techniques.
A. to study mainly because the icy surface is being
B. to study mainly because the icy surface is
C. studying mainly from the icy surface being
Grammar / SAT Prep
Sentence Errors:
Everyone in Mr. Marsh’s class is
A
B
excited to turn in their stupid
C
D
literature book. No error
E
Grammar / SAT Prep
Sentence Errors:
Because of its innovativeness and its
A
effective presentation, Mary’s science
project received more judges’ votes
B
at the exhibit than Jims. No error
C
D
E