English III Honors Fall Exam Review 10-11
This review is NOT exhaustive. You will need to study all materials and find answers independently.
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Vocabulary – 50 Questions
Study all vocabulary lists. Know definition and part of speech for each.
presentiment
decorous
erudite
caprice
pestilent
mutable
mien
ignominy
iniquity
heterogeneous
amphialloacroaamnesia
acrophobia
allonym
amphibious
scurrilous
abased
pristine
acrid
malevolent
impute
denizen
imperious
plebeian
anaantiapoarchaeanthrop- , anthropoarchaeology
antibiotic
apology
analysis
misanthropy
arduous
disposition
copious
improvident
perfidy
redress
acquiesce
infidel
refulgent
refluent
aut- , autocacocatadiaautograph
cacophony
catastrophe
diameter
abate
enervated
flaccid
harrowing
histrionic
immutable
maudlin
mendacious
odious
pugnacious
dysecenepidystrophy
ecstasy
epidermis
encircle
Native American Origin Myths / The Colonial Period / Poor Richard’s Almanack / “The
Minister’s Black Veil” – 47 Questions
The Works:
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“The Earth on Turtle’s Back”
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“When Grizzlies Walk Upright”
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from “The Navajo Origin Legend”
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from Journal of the First Voyage to America
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from The General History of Virginia
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from Of Plymouth Plantation
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“To My Dear and Loving Husband”
“In Memory of My Dear Grandchild”
“The Author to Her Book”
from “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
from Poor Richard’s Almanack
“The Minister’s Black Veil”
This review is NOT exhaustive. You will need to study all materials and find answers independently.
Study:
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your notes
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textbook (including biographers of authors)
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“Early Native American Origin Myths and The
Colonial Period”
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The Colonial Period Quiz
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pp. 56-57 (more information on important terms 2)
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“Tone vocabulary” / Practice Sentences
The General History of Virginia packet
Anne Bradstreet Packet (green)
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” Quiz
Benjamin Franklin Almanack assignment sheet
“The Minister’s Black Veil” Quiz
OVERVIEW of important terms, facts, people, things to know – this is ONLY an overview.
Imp. Terms 1
meter
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importance of Anne Bradstreet
theocracy
paradox
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plots / themes / authors of all
theocrat
rhyme scheme
works
oral tradition
Imp. Terms 4
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Pilgrims vs. Puritans
origin myths
aphorism
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John Smith vs. William
Imp. Terms 2
parable
Bradford
narrative account
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According to Jonathan
firsthand narrative account
also . . .
Edwards, is simply being a
secondhand narrative account
Puritanism / Puritan Style
good person enough to get
style
Massachusetts Bay Colony
into heaven?
tone
John Winthrop
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fiction for the Puritans?
Imp. Terms 3
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spider in “Sinners”
Be sure to know:
anaphora
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What is holding up sinners?
extended metaphor
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dates of the Colonial Period
heroic couplet
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1492, 1565, 1607,1619, 1620,
iambic pentameter
1630
English III Honors Fall Exam Review 10-11
This review is NOT exhaustive. You will need to study all materials and find answers independently.
Harris
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne – 50 Questions
Study:
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Be sure to know:
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year published, setting, period during which it was
written (in introductory packet)
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Important Terms 5. Be able to apply all. (list in
introductory packet)
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themes, motifs, symbols (tables in introductory
packet)
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Hawthorne biography (in introductory packet)
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plot and characters
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Hester attempts to “conceal a certain token”
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why “the scarlet letter had not done its office”
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climax
your notes
Introductory Packet
study guide packet
quotations packet (blue)
Quiz - Chapters 10, 11, and 12
Imp. Terms 5
allegory
motif
metaphor
imagery
symbolism
setting
plot
mood
allusion
irony
dramatic irony
situational irony
verbal irony
foreshadowing
theme
protagonist
antagonist
characterization
climax
tone (review)
also . . .
romanticism
transcendentalism
This review is NOT exhaustive. You will need to study all materials and find answers independently.
Focus on these The Scarlet Letter quotations (quotations from the test):
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“Speak for me! Thou knowest,—for thou hast sympathies which these men lack!”
“I found them growing on a grave, which bore no tombstone, no other memorial of the dead man, save
these ugly weeds that have taken upon themselves to keep him in remembrance. They grew out of his
heart, and typify, it may be, some hideous secret that was buried with him, and which he had done
better to confess during his lifetime.”
“Ye have both been here before, but I was not with you.”
“. . . when we forgot our God,—when we violated our reverence each for the other's soul,—it was
thenceforth vain to hope that we could meet hereafter, in an everlasting and pure reunion.”
“I have thought of death—have wished for it—would even have prayed for it, were it fit that such as I
should pray for anything.”
“thou knowest that I was frank with thee. I felt no love, nor feigned any.”
“Hadst thou sought the whole earth over, there was no one place so secret,—no high place nor lowly
place, where thou couldst have escaped me,—save on this very scaffold!”
“Do not blacken your fame, and perish in dishonor! I can yet save you!”
“Happy are you . . . that wear the scarlet letter openly upon your bosom! Mine burns in secret! Thou little
knowest what a relief it is, after the torment of a seven years' cheat, to look into an eye that recognizes
me for what I am!”
English III Honors Fall Exam Review 10-11
This review is NOT exhaustive. You will need to study all materials and find answers independently.
Harris
The Revolutionary and Early National Periods – 53 Questions
The Works:
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“On Being Brought from Africa to America”
(handout)
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“An Hymn to the Evening”
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“To His Excellency, General Washington”
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from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of
Olaudah Equiano
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“Speech in the Virginia Convention”
Study
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from Common Sense
from The Crisis, Number 1
excerpts from The Age of Reason
The Declaration of Independence
“Rip Van Winkle” (packet)
your notes
textbook (including biographies of authors)
“The Revolutionary Period”
“Unit 2 Introduction: Terms to Know”
“Patrick Henry , “Speech in the Virginia Convention”
/ Thomas Paine, Thomas Paine and the Age of
Reason, Common Sense, The Crisis, Number 1”
assignment sheet
pp. 198-199 (more information on important terms
6)
your Persuasive Essay
This review is NOT exhaustive. You will need to study all materials and find answers independently.
OVERVIEW of important terms, facts, people, things to know – this is ONLY an overview.
Be sure to know:
Important Terms 6
also . . .
personification
Enlightenment
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dates of the Revolutionary
American Revolution
Period and Early National
pathos
U.S. Constitution
Period
ethos
Declaration of Independence
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importance of Phillis Wheatley
persuasive techniques
logos
Thomas Paine
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sable
The Federalist Papers
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tone in “On Being Brought
repetition
neoclassicism
from Africa to America”
restatement
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plots / themes / main ideas /
rhetorical
parallelism
settings / authors of all works
devices
rhetorical question
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authors’ purposes for writing
antithesis
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deism
anaphora (review)
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importance of Washington
Irving
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characteristics of Early
National Literature (style vs.
setting/themes)
This review is NOT exhaustive. You will need to study all materials and find answers independently.
If you have any questions, please ask. Good luck! 
English III Honors Fall Exam Review 10-11
This review is NOT exhaustive. You will need to study all materials and find answers independently.
Harris
Dates / Numbers for review. Know the significance of all.
1720
16
1650
1607-1765
1565
1619
1607
100
1765
1692
18
100
1630
1620
1492
1765-1790
1850
1790-1828