-English 11 Review Sheet for the 2008-2009 Midterm ExamWriting Styles With Which To Be Comfortable:
Writing Tips, Impromptu Essay Writing Strategies and Grammar/Usage (the editing symbols sheet):
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You need to be familiar with the Writing Tips and Impromptu Essay Writing Strategies that we've
covered this semester
You need to know what each editing symbol stands for. You need to understand the usage or grammar
problem that it denotes and how to fix it.
Be comfortable with the Six Traits Writing Rubric
Paragraph Writing (Formally Assessed with a Rubric)
-Topic Sentence
-Transition Words/Phrases
-Supporting points (sub-points)
-Evidence to support each sub-point
-Contextualizing, tagging, punctuating and citing (parenthetically) quotations
-Contextualizing, tagging, punctuating and citing (parenthetically) paraphrases-Closing/transitioning
from the paragraph
Compare/Contrast Essay Writing (Formally Assessed with a Rubric)
-Opposing Pattern
-Alternating Pattern
Texts With Which To Be Familiar
 Know the settings, major characters, voices and plots of these texts
 Be able to recall and discuss supplemental information, e.g., discussion topics that emerged from these
works.
 Be ready to order events, identify characters, and identify quotations.
"Allegory of the Cave" - Plato
"Genesis and Catastrophe" – Dahl
"Rip Van Winkle" - Irving
"A Temporary Matter" - Lahiri
"The Bet" - Chekov
"Shooting an Elephant" – Orwell
"Guests of the Nation" – O'Connor
"An Olympic-sized Security Blanket"
"A Servant to My Chief"
"Hitler's First Photograph" – Szymborska
"The Colonel" – Forche
"Grauballe Man" - Heaney
"Get Drunk" – Baudelaire
Oedipus Rex - Sophocles
Things Fall Apart - Achebe
Literary Concepts With Which To Be familiar:
Be able to identify these elements, used them and talk about their effects.
Commentary Wheel Parts
Allegory
Dialogue
Mood
Allusion
Foreshadowing
Symbol
Denotation
Connotation
Characterization
Direct Characterization
Indirect Characterization
Situational Irony
Local Color
Plot Chart
Conflicts
Greek Stuff
Tragedy
Tragic Flaw
Tragic Irony
Choregos
Sophocles
Aeschylus
Euripides
Chorus
Prologue
Parodos
Episode
Stasimon
Exodos
Theatron
Orchestra
Parados
Ecceclyma
Thymele
Skene
Deus Ex Machina
Speech Unit
Parallelism
Antithesis
Anastrophe
Parenthesis
Ellipsis
Asyndeton
Alliteration
Assonance
Anaphora
Epistrophe
Anadiplosis
Climax
Antimetabole
Chiasmus
Polyptoton
Metaphor
Simile
Synecdoche
Metonymy
Anthimeria
Pun
Personification
Hyperbole
Litotes
Rhetorical Questions
Irony
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
Paradox
Fallacy of Emotive Language
Fallacy of Composition
Fallacy of Division
Fallacy of Vicious Abstraction
Argumentum Ad Misericordium (The
Appeal to Pity)
Argumentum Ad Verecundiam (The
Appeal to Prestige)
Argumentum Ad Baculum (The Appeal to
Force)
Argumentum Ad Hominem (Appeal to
Personal Ridicule)
Argumentum Ad Populum (Appeal to the
Masses)
False Cause (Post Hoc)
Non Sequitur (It Does Not Follow)
Petitio Principii (Begging the Question)
Tu QuoQue (You Yourself Do It)
Fallacy of Misplaced Authority
False Analogy
Pathetic Fallacy (Anthropomorphism)
Vocabulary Ring Vocabulary
You are responsible for knowing the parts of speech, definitions and spellings of these words.
Unit One
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Approbation
Assuage
Coalition
Decadence
Elicit
Expostulate
Hackneyed
Hiatus
Innuendo
Intercede
Jaded
Lurid
Meritorious
Petulant
Prerogative
Provincial
Simulate
Transcend
Umbrage
Unctuous
Unit Four
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Affable
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Aggrandize
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Amorphous
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Aura
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Contraband
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Erudite
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Gossamer
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Infer
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Inscrutable
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Insular
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Irrevocable
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Propensity
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Querulous
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Remonstrate
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Repudiate
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Resilient
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Reverberate
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Scurrilous
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Sedulous
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Sleazy
Unit Two
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Ameliorate
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Aplomb
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Bombastic
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Callow
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Drivel
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Epitome
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Exhort
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Ex officio
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Infringe
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Ingratiate
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Interloper
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Intrinsic
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Inveigh
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Lassitude
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Millennium
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Occult
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Permeate
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Precipitate
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Stringent
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Surmise
Unit Three
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Abominate
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Acculturation
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Adventitious
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Ascribe
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Circuitous
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Commiserate
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Enjoin
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Expedite
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Expiate
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Ferment
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Inadvertent
12)
Nominal
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Noncommittal
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Peculate
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Proclivity
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Sangfroid
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Seditious*
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Tenuous
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Vitriolic
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Wheedle
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Unit Six
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Amnesty
Autonomy
Axiomatic
Blazon
Caveat
Equitable
Extricate
Flinch
Flout
Factious
Precept
Salutary
Scathing
Scourge
Sepulchral
Soporific
Straitlaced
Transient
Unwieldy
Vapid
Anomalous
Aspersion
Bizarre
Brusque
Cajole
Castigate
Contrive
Demagogue
Disabuse
Ennui
Fetter
Heinous
Immutable
Insurgent
Megalomania
Sinecure
Surreptitious
Transgress
Transmute
Vicarious
Word Web Vocabulary
You are responsible for knowing these familiar parts. You should be able to identify them within words and
understand how they relate to the definitions of the words. You should be able to use these roots to form
new words.
interceder
meritorious
simulare
trans
scandere
umbra
tom
gratia
mill
anni/enni
per/meatstring/strict/strain
circ
com
miser
in
ad
vert
nom
pro
clivus
gran
ize
a/an
morph
ous
contra
band
scrut
able
insula
ir
voc
auto
nomo
equi
cept/capt/ceive/ceit
sal
trans
itiner/it,
anamalo
dem
agogue
im
mut
able
megalo
mania
gress