PAP Fall Final Exam Review
Root Words
AUD,AUS
BIBL
CRED
MAN
MOR,MORT
DEM
FED,FID
GEN
GREG
MIS, MIT
DIC, DICT
FAC,FEC,FIC
NOV
SCRIB,SCRIP
PHOTO
BEN,BON
COR,CORP
MAL
PHIL
VICT,VINC
FER
THE, THEO
VID, VIS
VEN
JECT
MEM,MIM
SOPH
SPEC,SPIC
TEN,TENT
TRACT
ANTRHOP
ARCH
CEDE,CEED,CESS
PEN,PEND
PON,POS
SCI
STA,STI,SIST
STRU, STRUCT
CLAIM,CLAM
CLUD,CLUS
DENT, DONT
TEM,TEMP
VOC,VOK
ANNI,ANNU,ENNI
BIO
GNOSI, COGNOSC
OPUS,OPER
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Tone
Diction
Imagery
Characterization
Symbol
Dystopia
Utopia
Ego
Super ego
Id
Irony
Allegory
Hubris
Tragedy
catharsis
Tragic flaw
Theme
Hero Cycle (in order)
Code of Chivalry
Traits of a Medieval Romance
RECT
CLAR
LOG,LOC,LOQ
A Separate Peace
1. How did the narrator describe the tree when he visited years later?
2. Why did Phineas invent his theory of the imaginary war?
3. How did Leper become a liaison between the boys and WWII?
4. What did the narrator see as the cause of wars?
5. How did Finny react to Gene’s first visit to the infirmary after the investigation?
6. Which of the following characters changed least during the story?
7. When did Gene realize Phineas was not jealous of his studies?
8. What was Phineas’ view on authority?
9. Why did Brinker resign from the presidency of the Golden Fleece Debating Society?
10. What was the narrator’s reaction to meeting Leper after the telegram?
11. Where did the narrator fight his war and win “a separate peace”?
12. How did Brinker react to his father’s speech on the war?
13. What was Gene’s role in WWII?
14. The boys reacted in what way after Phineas fell down the stairs?
15. Why did Phineas want to train Gene for the 1944 Olympics?
Lord of the Flies
1.____When Ralph is elected chief, Jack is so frustrated that he refuses to hunt.
2. ___ Ralph starts the signal fire with Piggy’s glasses.
3. ___ The signal fire goes out because Roger and his hunters neglect it.
4. ___ A wild boar eats the littlun with a birthmark on his face.
5. ___ Piggy’s parents are both dead.
6. ___ Henry was a distant relative of the missing boy with the mulberry-marked
face.
7. ___ Jack is described as having hair as “black as the night.”
8. ___ Jack and his followers steal the conch, and take it to Castle Rock.
9. ___ Ralph notices that some of the littluns are frightened.
10. ___ Simon helps the littluns collect fruit.
11. ___ The littluns would starve to death if not for the skill and tenacity of the
hunters.
12. ___ Jack is representative of Freud’s idea of the ego.
13. ___ The conch does not provide a link with the adult world of authority.
14. ___ The boys suffered from stomach aches and chronic diarrhea.
15. ___ Ralph is described as being “the boy with the fair hair.”
16. ___ The main source of food on the island is food scavenged from the wreckage.
17. ___ The boys murder Simon because they think that he is “batty”.
18. ___ Piggy is not afraid of Jack because he knows that Sam and Eric will protect
him.
19. ___ Piggy is representative of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
20. ___ Piggy was the only boy on the island whose hair never seemed to grow.
21. Ralph is elected chief for the following reasons:
22. The conch shell becomes a symbol of
23. Jack changes from a civilized schoolboy to a (an)
24. Jack takes the boys to Castle Rock because it is
25. The boys taunt Piggy for the following reasons.
27. Who grabbed Eric's spear and jabbed at Robert with it during a "kill the pig"
ritual?
28. Who starts the fire that ironically brings rescue?
29. When Robert suggests that the game needs a real pig "because you've got to
kill him," what does Jack suggest using?
30. Simon’s death represents the death of
31. Jack impales the sow’s head on a stick to
32. While staring at the severed pig’s head, Simon has a mystical experience
which reveals to him that the beast is
33. Roger is unable to throw rocks directly at the "littlun” on the beach because
35. According to Piggy’s description, the conch when blown, it sounds like
36. When the boys, as a group, arrive at Castle Rock, they have fun by;
37. What indicates Piggy's pleasure after Jack leaves to go off on his own?
38. After the death of Simon, the excuse the four bigguns left together give to
each other is
39. The island is roughly
40.These two boys were the leaders on the island
Antigone
Identify the following characters:
Oedipus Jocasta Laius Teiresias Antigone Ismene Eteocles Polyneices
Haemon Eurydice Creon
1. Why is Antigone upset at the beginning of the play?
2. What is the purpose of the Chorus?
3. Describe Antigone and Isemene’s relationship at the end of the Prologue.
4. Why does Creon not want Polyneices to be buried?
5. Who discovers that Polyneices has been buried?
6. How has Polyneices been buried?
7. What is the punishment for the person who buried Polyneices?
8. Who is caught burying Polyneices?
9. How does Antigone act when Ismene is brought before Creon for the burial as well?
Chorus
10. How does Creon count Ismene guilty?
11. Who goes to Creon to plead Antigone’s case?
12. What argument does he try to use with Creon at the beginning of their meeting?
13. What is Creon’s main reason for holding fast to his punishment for Antigone?
14. How does Antigone’s tone change when she is brought to her punishment?
15. What is Antigone’s punishment (be specific)?
16. How does Haemon react?
17. How does Eurydice react to news of Haemon?
18. What is the theme of Ode 1?
19. Ode 2?
20. What is the theme of the play?
21. Who wrote the play?
Explain the significance/context of the following quotes:
22. “It will not be the worst of deaths-death without honor.”
23. “For God hates utterly the bray of bragging tongues…”
24. “You shall not lessen my death by sharing it.”
25. “…and as for the man who sets private interest above the public welfare-I have no use for him, either.”
Possible Mini Essay Topics:
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Give the perfect Christmas gift to a character we have read. Be sure to provide at least three references to the text for why
you chose that gift.
Choose one of the texts and write a paragraph explaining the theme. Be sure to provide three references to the text.