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World Studies Final Exam Review—English 2012
This is a final review sheet for English. I may add more to this later.
You should reread the selections in your literature book to refresh your memory. You should also go
through and study all the notes that you have on the literature selections that we studied in class. The
development of your own study guide for this exam should be part of your process of preparation and
study. Your own study guide will allow you to focus on your particular learning/studying style
(flashcards, mnemonic devices, organization strategies etc). The actual act of going through your notes,
rereading the material and creating a study guide will help you to retain the information. Of course, you
should consult with classmates (or me) when you have questions about your own notes or to fill in gaps
in your knowledge. A study group can be an effective way to prepare for an exam, but only if you form a
study group that is not too easily distracted!
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Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
main characters
secondary characters
themes
setting
plot
point of view
notes given in class
literary terms
Readings from Hebrew Scriptures
“Noah and the Flood” 171-176
main characters
themes
setting
plot
notes given in class
literary terms
“Psalms 23 and 104” 187-191
parallelism
see questions at the end 194
New Testament Readings
“The Prodigal Son” 199-200
“The Sower” 200-201
questions at the end 203
main characters
themes
setting
plot
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notes given in class
literary terms
The Epic of Gilgamesh 136-152
background information
main characters
themes
setting
plot
notes given in class
literary terms
The Mahabharata
461-466
The Bhagavad-Gita 467-476
background information
main characters
themes
setting
plot
notes given in class
literary terms
The Koran
background information 634
literary terms and questions 635
Soweto Poets
Background information
Poetic techniques
Mark Mathabane’s Kaffir Boy excerpt from book 1365-1373
“The Road to Alexandra”
Apartheid background
characters
story
setting
notes given in class
Hosseini’s The Kite Runner
review Study Guide questions and notes
main characters
secondary characters
themes
setting
plot
point of view
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notes given in class
literary terms
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Jataka Tales
Moral
Eightfold Path
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Grammar and Writing
o Identify parts of speech—noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb, conjunction,
interjection, verb
o Participle phrase, what is it? When is it used correctly? Incorrectly? Dangling?
o thesis statement—what is it?
o using a quote to substantiate a point in writing
o Common word errors in your essays
 to/too/two
 they’re/there/their
 affect/effect
 then/than
o MLA format
 Be able to write up a basic entry with one author.
 Know MLA heading for essays
 internal parenthetical citation
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Those wonderful Literary Terms
o allusion
o foreshadowing
o irony
o dramatic irony
o structural irony
o verbal irony
o flashback
o metaphor
o simile
o extended metaphor
o personification
o protagonist
o antagonist
o theme
o epigraph
o tragedy
o tragic hero
o tragic flaw
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symbol
proverb
setting
point of view
flat character
round character
dynamic character
static character
imagery
pun
double entendre
motif
apostrophe
paradox
hyperbole
understatement
satire
parallelism
flashback
onomatopoeia
imagery
flashback
didactic verse
in medias res
antithesis