Final Exam Review
English Literature
Ms. Peters
Student’s name: ___________________
Due date: ___________________
This open book/notes review is worth 20 points.
Using all of the materials provided for you this semester, select twenty terms from the list below. Write out each term and its definition in the first column, place it in the time period(s) in which it belongs in the second column, and in the third column write out two specific lines or examples/explanations of the term. See the following example:
Term Time Period
Simile:
A brief comparative Renaissance Period
statement using “like” or “as
Two Examples a. “My love is to ice and I to fire…”
Victorian Age b. “There stands my mistress as if alive…”
TERM LIST
2.
1.
3.
Frame story
Dramatic irony
Victorian mindset
“Middle” English
Chain of Being
Euphony
Apostrophe
Simile
Elegy
Metaphysical poem
Romanticism
TERM
Martyr
Epic hero
Beheadings
Symbolism
Soliloquy
Tone
Beast fable
Pastoral
Allusion
Regicide
Foil
Satire Medieval Romance Iambic pentameter
Understatement Dissonance Antithesis
Inventions
Repetition
Tragic hero
Dramatic monologue Rhymed couplet
Cavalier
Imagery
Slant rhyme
Hyperbole
Caesura
Kenning
Scansion
Epiphany
Synecdoche
Comitatus
Fabliau
Lyric
Dystopia
Aside
Personification Petrarchan sonnet
Oxymoron Post-war disillusionment
Exemplum
Paradox
Religious turmoil
Architectural motif
TIME PERIOD(S) EXAMPLES

8.
7.
6.
10.
9.
11.
4.
5.

12.
19.
18.
20.
16.
15.
17.
14.
13.

For this last section to be completed independently, read the poem that you have previously selected. In a well-composed paragraph, discuss the subject matter of the poem (what it is about), the reasons that you selected the poem (why it appealed to you) and the theme of the poem (what perspective the author presents about his/her subject and/or life in general). Use the space provided to compose your paragraph. Remember to include the title and the author of the poem in you paragraph. (20 points)