Final Exam
Review Packet
“It’s choice - not chance – that determines your destiny.”
- Jean Nidetch
“He must choose his own path; no one can choose it for him.”
- Princess Leia
Name: _____________________________________________________
Outline of Final Exam:
Day 1: ____________________________
Part I: Literary Terms Multiple Choice
Part II: Reading Comprehension - Poetry
Part III: Critical Lens
Day 2: ____________________________
Part IV: Multiple Choice Questions on Stories Read in 9th Grade
Part V: Reading Comprehension – Short Story
Part VI: Persuasive Essay
MAKE UP DAY/EXTRA TIME: ________________________________ at ___________________
(There will be a test booklet, and answer sheets for your answers. All answers will
need to be written on the answer sheets. You will be allowed to mark in the test
booklets, but only the answer sheets will be graded. Essays will have separate lined
paper for the answers.)
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Part I:
Literary Terms
What to expect:
 20 multiple choice on Literary Elements
 Answers will come both in the form of a definition and an example.
 20 points total
How to study:
 Review definitions from Short Story Unit Study Guide
 Review definition from Poetry Unit; Romeo and Juliet
 Spend time making flashcards or vocab-foldable study guides
Give a definition and example of the following Literary Elements:
Term/Technique Definition
Example
Plot
Exposition
Rising Action
Climax
Falling Action
Resolution
Setting
Characterization
Theme
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Term/Technique Definition
Example
Point of View
1st person point
of view
3rd person point
of view
Conflict
Character vs. self:
Internal Conflict
Character vs. nature:
Character vs. fate:
External Conflict Character vs. society:
Character vs. character:
Symbol
Irony
Verbal Irony
Dramatic Irony
Situational Irony
Protagonist
Antagonist
Imagery
Simile
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Term/Technique Definition
Example
Metaphor
Personification
Flashback
Foreshadow
Tone
Suspense
Soliloquy
Flaw
Character trait
Line
Stanza
Speaker
Rhythm
Rhyme Scheme
Assonance
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
Couplet
Quatrain
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Part II:
Reading Comprehension - Poetry
What to expect:
 A poem to read and analyze.
 5 multiple choice questions about the poem.
 5 points total
How to study:
 Look over a few of the poems we have read.
 Make sure you know how to find figurative language in a poem.
 Make sure you know how to find a tone in a poem.
 Make sure you know how to label rhyme scheme.
 Make sure you know the difference between a quatrain and a couplet.
 Make sure you know how to find the theme of the poem.
Practice below:
A lonely flower is found.
And say a hoss should wander by
And graze upon this flower
That once wuz you, but now’s become
Yer vegetative bower.”
Reincarnation
By Wallace McRae
“What does Reincarnation mean?”
A cowpoke asked his friend.
His pal replied, “It happens when
Yer life has reached its end.
They comb yer hair, and warsh yer neck,
And clean yer fingernails,
And lay you in a padded box
Away from life’s travails.”
“The posy that the hoss done ate
Up, with his other feed,
Makes bone, and fat, and muscle
Essential to the steed,
But some is left that he can’t use
And so it passes through,
And finally lays upon the ground
This thing, that once wuz you.”
“The box and you goes in a hole,
That’s been dug into the ground.
Reincarnation starts in when
Yore planted ‘neath a mound.
Them clods melt down, just like yer box,
And you who is inside.
And then yore just beginnin’ on
Yer transformation ride.”
“Then say, by chance, I wanders by
And sees this upon the ground,
And I ponders, and I wonders at,
This object that I found.
I thinks of reincarnation,
Of life and death, and such,
And come away concludin’: ‘Slim,
You ain’t changed, all that much.’”
“In a while the grass’ll grow
Upon yer rendered mound.
Till some day on yer moldered grave
Questions:
1. Give an example of imagery.
2. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem above?
3. What is the theme of this poem?
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Part III:
Critical Lens
What to expect:
 A general Critical Lens that any story we read this year can be used to explain.
 You may only use short stories/the novel/the play/the epic poem that we have read in
class. NO MOVIES!!
 2 quotes to choose from
 You will write the entire Critical Lens essay on separate paper
 25 points total
How to study:
 Review our major works: Short stories (“L/T”, “Most Dangerous Game”, “The Cask…”,
“The Veldt”, “The Lottery”) ; Of Mice and Men, Romeo and Juliet, “The Odyssey”
 What were the major elements of those stories?
 Review Critical Lens worksheets (pgs 5, 6, 7)
Take an inventory of the following stories below:
Literature Read in 9 ENG
“The Lady or the Tiger?”
Literary Term Studied
Theme
“Cask of Amontillado”
Theme
“The Veldt”
Theme
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Example from story
“The Lottery”
Theme
Of Mice and Men
Theme
Romeo and Juliet
Theme
“The Odyssey”
Theme
Fix the following titles so that they are written correctly: ***You will need to write these correctly
for the Critical Lens!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1. The Cask of Amontillado
Author?
2. Of Mice and Men
Author?
3. The Odyssey
Author?
4. Romeo and Juliet
Author?
5. The Lottery
Author?
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Practice:
Critical Lens
Your Task:
Write a critical essay in which you TWO (2) pieces of literature that we have read this year to the
Critical Lens below. In your essay, provide a valid interpretation of the statement, agree or
disagree with the statement as you have interpreted it, and support your opinion using specific
references to appropriate literary elements . You may use scrap paper to plan your response.
Critical Lens:
“I like a good story that is well told.”
--Mark Twain
Guidelines:
Be sure to:
 Mention the title and author. (intro)
 Explain what the quote means in your own words. (intro)
 Agree or disagree with the quote. (intro)
 Support your opinion using example from the story. (body)
 Make specific reference to literary terms (for example: theme, characterization, setting, point
of view, irony, etc.) to prove your point. (body)
 Organize your ideas in a three-paragraph structure. (intro, body, conclusion)
**Tip – use the fill-in-the-blank outline!
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Write the introduction to the previous Critical Lens. Outline the rest of the paragraphs.
WRITE INTRODUCTION:
OUTLINE:
Body Paragraph #1:
Body Paragraph #2:
Conclusion:
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Part Iv:
Knowing Your Stories
What to expect:
 20 multiple choice questions on the plot and literary elements of the following stories:
 “The Lady or the Tiger?”
 “The Cask of Amontillado”
 Romeo and Juliet
 “The Odyssey”
 20 points total
How to study:
 Review the plot notes, act notes, or trip notes from each story.
 Review the reading check questions from the packets as those questions may
appear on the final exam.
 Review the major literary elements of each story.
Part V:
Reading Comprehension – Short Story
What to expect:
 A short story to read and analyze.
 5 multiple choice questions about the story.
 5 points total.
How to study:
 The literary terms for short stories.
 Review how to find literary terms in a story.
 Practice below.
The Sniper
by LIAM O'FLAHERTY
The long June twilight faded into night. Dublin lay enveloped in darkness but for the dim light of the moon that
shone through fleecy clouds, casting a pale light as of approaching dawn over the streets and the dark waters of
the Liffey. Around the beleaguered Four Courts the heavy guns roared. Here and there through the city, machine
guns and rifles broke the silence of the night, spasmodically, like dogs barking on lone farms. Republicans and Free
Staters were waging civil war.
On a rooftop near O'Connell Bridge, a Republican sniper lay watching. Beside him lay his rifle and over his
shoulders was slung a pair of field glasses. His face was the face of a student, thin and ascetic, but his eyes had
the cold gleam of the fanatic. They were deep and thoughtful, the eyes of a man who is used to looking at death.
He was eating a sandwich hungrily. He had eaten nothing since morning. He had been too excited to eat. He
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finished the sandwich, and, taking a flask of whiskey from his pocket, he took a short drought. Then he returned
the flask to his pocket. He paused for a moment, considering whether he should risk a smoke. It was dangerous.
The flash might be seen in the darkness, and there were enemies watching. He decided to take the risk.
Placing a cigarette between his lips, he struck a match, inhaled the smoke hurriedly and put out the light. Almost
immediately, a bullet flattened itself against the parapet of the roof. The sniper took another whiff and put out the
cigarette. Then he swore softly and crawled away to the left.
Cautiously he raised himself and peered over the parapet. There was a flash and a bullet whizzed over his head. He
dropped immediately. He had seen the flash. It came from the opposite side of the street.
He rolled over the roof to a chimney stack in the rear, and slowly drew himself up behind it, until his eyes were
level with the top of the parapet. There was nothing to be seen--just the dim outline of the opposite housetop
against the blue sky. His enemy was under cover.
Just then an armored car came across the bridge and advanced slowly up the street. It stopped on the opposite
side of the street, fifty yards ahead. The sniper could hear the dull panting of the motor. His heart beat faster. It
was an enemy car. He wanted to fire, but he knew it was useless. His bullets would never pierce the steel that
covered the gray monster.
Then round the corner of a side street came an old woman, her head covered by a tattered shawl. She began to
talk to the man in the turret of the car. She was pointing to the roof where the sniper lay. An informer.
The turret opened. A man's head and shoulders appeared, looking toward the sniper. The sniper raised his rifle and
fired. The head fell heavily on the turret wall. The woman darted toward the side street. The sniper fired again. The
woman whirled round and fell with a shriek into the gutter.
Suddenly from the opposite roof a shot rang out and the sniper dropped his rifle with a curse. The rifle clattered to
the roof. The sniper thought the noise would wake the dead. He stooped to pick the rifle up. He couldn't lift it. His
forearm was dead. "I'm hit," he muttered.
Dropping flat onto the roof, he crawled back to the parapet. With his left hand he felt the injured right forearm.
The blood was oozing through the sleeve of his coat. There was no pain--just a deadened sensation, as if the arm
had been cut off.
Quickly he drew his knife from his pocket, opened it on the breastwork of the parapet, and ripped open the sleeve.
There was a small hole where the bullet had entered. On the other side there was no hole. The bullet had lodged in
the bone. It must have fractured it. He bent the arm below the wound. the arm bent back easily. He ground his
teeth to overcome the pain.
Then taking out his field dressing, he ripped open the packet with his knife. He broke the neck of the iodine bottle
and let the bitter fluid drip into the wound. A paroxysm of pain swept through him. He placed the cotton wadding
over the wound and wrapped the dressing over it. He tied the ends with his teeth.
Then he lay still against the parapet, and, closing his eyes, he made an effort of will to overcome the pain.
In the street beneath all was still. The armored car had retired speedily over the bridge, with the machine gunner's
head hanging lifeless over the turret. The woman's corpse lay still in the gutter.
The sniper lay still for a long time nursing his wounded arm and planning escape. Morning must not find him
wounded on the roof. The enemy on the opposite roof coverd his escape. He must kill that enemy and he could not
use his rifle. He had only a revolver to do it. Then he thought of a plan.
Taking off his cap, he placed it over the muzzle of his rifle. Then he pushed the rifle slowly upward over the
parapet, until the cap was visible from the opposite side of the street. Almost immediately there was a report, and
a bullet pierced the center of the cap. The sniper slanted the rifle forward. The cap clipped down into the street.
Then catching the rifle in the middle, the sniper dropped his left hand over the roof and let it hang, lifelessly. After
a few moments he let the rifle drop to the street. Then he sank to the roof, dragging his hand with him.
Crawling quickly to his feet, he peered up at the corner of the roof. His ruse had succeeded. The other sniper,
seeing the cap and rifle fall, thought that he had killed his man. He was now standing before a row of chimney
pots, looking across, with his head clearly silhouetted against the western sky.
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The Republican sniper smiled and lifted his revolver above the edge of the parapet. The distance was about fifty
yards--a hard shot in the dim light, and his right arm was paining him like a thousand devils. He took a steady
aim. His hand trembled with eagerness. Pressing his lips together, he took a deep breath through his nostrils and
fired. He was almost deafened with the report and his arm shook with the recoil.
Then when the smoke cleared, he peered across and uttered a cry of joy. His enemy had been hit. He was reeling
over the parapet in his death agony. He struggled to keep his feet, but he was slowly falling forward as if in a
dream. The rifle fell from his grasp, hit the parapet, fell over, bounded off the pole of a barber's shop beneath and
then clattered on the pavement.
Then the dying man on the roof crumpled up and fell forward. The body turned over and over in space and hit the
ground with a dull thud. Then it lay still.
The sniper looked at his enemy falling and he shuddered. The lust of battle died in him. He became bitten by
remorse. The sweat stood out in beads on his forehead. Weakened by his wound and the long summer day of
fasting and watching on the roof, he revolted from the sight of the shattered mass of his dead enemy. His teeth
chattered, he began to gibber to himself, cursing the war, cursing himself, cursing everybody.
He looked at the smoking revolver in his hand, and with an oath he hurled it to the roof at his feet. The revolver
went off with a concussion and the bullet whizzed past the sniper's head. He was frightened back to his senses by
the shock. His nerves steadied. The cloud of fear scattered from his mind and he laughed.
Taking the whiskey flask from his pocket, he emptied it a drought. He felt reckless under the influence of the spirit.
He decided to leave the roof now and look for his company commander, to report. Everywhere around was quiet.
There was not much danger in going through the streets. He picked up his revolver and put it in his pocket. Then
he crawled down through the skylight to the house underneath.
When the sniper reached the laneway on the street level, he felt a sudden curiosity as to the identity of the enemy
sniper whom he had killed. He decided that he was a good shot, whoever he was. He wondered did he know him.
Perhaps he had been in his own company before the split in the army. He decided to risk going over to have a look
at him. He peered around the corner into O'Connell Street. In the upper part of the street there was heavy firing,
but around here all was quiet.
The sniper darted across the street. A machine gun tore up the ground around him with a hail of bullets, but he
escaped. He threw himself face downward beside the corpse. The machine gun stopped.
Then the sniper turned over the dead body and looked into his brother's face.
***HIGHLIGHT AS MANY LITERARY TERMS AS YOU CAN FIND.
The Sniper Questions:
1. Where is the story set? (setting)
2. Characterize the sniper (main character).
3. Write a line that contains imagery.
4. Who is the protagonist? Antagonist?
5. Give an example of irony from the story. What kind is it?
6. Find an example of figurative language. What kind is it?
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Part VI:
Persuasive Essay
What to expect:
 You will write a persuasive essay arguing a point of view.
 2 essay choices
 NO “I think that…”
 NO “You”
 25 points total
How to study:
 Review outline for writing persuasive essay.
 See the following outline and essay sample on the next few pages.
 DO NOT FORGET TO MENTION WHAT THE OTHER SIDE MAY SAY ABOUT THE
ISSUE!!! THIS IS WHERE KIDS ARE LOSING POINTS!!!!
Outline:
Introduction:
- Topic sentence to the entire essay
- Background information/possibly the opposing viewpoint
- Thesis statement (your point + your 2 main points)
- Transition to body paragraph #1 (maybe you can mention the title of the text you will use
to prove your point here)
Body Paragraph #1:
- Topic sentence
- Detail
- Detail
- Detail
- Connection statement (What are you trying to say?)
Body Paragraph #2:
- Topic sentence
- Detail
- Detail
- Detail
- Connection statement (What are you trying to say?)
Conclusion (check your notes on conclusions):
- Transition sentence
- Sentence #2
- Sentence #3
- Sentence #4/Call to action (This sentence should feel like the end)
Practice Question: A neighboring school has recently adopted a policy start school at 9am instead
of 7:30am. To continue to allow for enough classroom learning time, the students will be dismissed
at 5pm. There are have been a few issues with this policy, but for the most part, the school felt that
students were able to learn better if they could get another hour or so sleep before school. Your
school has asked students to write to the Superintendent letting her know if they would like to
enact the same policy or keep with the current 7:30 start time. Write your letter persuading the
Superintendent to listen to you and your opinion.
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Write the introduction to your persuasive essay. Be sure to include the opposing viewpoint.
** NO “I”
** NO “My opinion is…”
** NO “I think that…”
** NO “You should…”
WRITE INTRODUCTION:
OUTLINE:
Body Paragraph #1:
Body Paragraph #2:
Conclusion:
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Find the terms that match these definitions in the puzzle on the next page. Try not to use your
notes. Go back and review the ones you really cannot remember. Make flashcards of those
words, or draw the definitions for further study.
** Need help?? Go to http://www.bathcsd.org/webpages/edepartment/literary_terms.cfm
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Repetition of the initial consonant sounds of words: “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers”
The turning point in a literary work.
An ironic moment when the reader or audience knows something a character does not.
A conflict that takes place between the character and an outside force (i.e. wind; the sea; another character;
etc)
The method of returning to an earlier point in time for the purpose of making the present clearer.
An extreme exaggeration used to add meaning.
A character that is the source of conflict in a literary work.
A struggle between two or more opposing forces (person vs. person; nature; society; self; fate/God).
A narrative centered on a hero and his/her journey.
Results or effects of the climax of a literary work.
A weakness or poor quality about a character.
Language that appeals to the five senses.
The manner in which an author develops characters and their personalities.
The essential background information at the beginning of a literary work.
A story told from the point of view of a character.
A hint of what is to come in a literary work.
A particular descriptive of a character that tells the reader exactly what he/she is like (ie: self-absorbed;
devilish; etc.)
A conflict a character must deal with on the inside of his/her self (i.e.: battling the heart/soul/mind).
An implied comparison between dissimilar objects: “Her talent blossomed”
The sequence of events in a literary work.
A poetic device in which rhyming is created through similar vowel sounds in two or more words.
The time and place of a literary work.
A dramatic device in which a character is alone and speaks his or her thoughts aloud.
A technique that keeps the reader guessing what will happen next.
The point of view of an outside narrator.
In general: a literary aspect of a story used to mean the exact opposite of its literal meaning.
The use of a word whose sound imitates its meaning: “hiss”.
The vantage point or perspective from which a literary work is told.
Recurrences of stressed and unstressed syllable (creates a beat in your head).
A direct comparison of dissimilar objects, usually using like or as:
“I wandered lonely as a cloud”.
The voice in a poem; the person or thing that is speaking.
One thing (object, person, place) used to represent something else.
The author’s attitude toward the subject of a work.
A grouping of words in a poem (like a sentence in prose).
A figure of speech (figurative language) in which non-human things are given human characteristics.
The main character in a literary work.
The development of conflict and complications in a literary work.
Irony in which there is a disparity between what is expected and what actually occurs (reason for action and
result are not the same).
A grouping of lines in a poem (much like a paragraph in prose).
The author’s message; underlying main idea of a literary work.
Irony in which the speaker says one thing but means the opposite.
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Characters of 9th Grade English – Hidden Message Puzzle
Directions:
1. Answer the questions below about the characters in all of the stories, plays and poems
we have read this year. Find the answers in the word search. BE SURE YOU SPELL
THEIR NAMES CORRECTLY!! This will help you recall the stories and the characters of
these stories, which is useful for the multiple choice on Part III, and the Critical Lens.
2. After you have found all of the answers, begin filling in the hidden message puzzle at the
bottom. Go through each line top to bottom, right to left. For each letter not circled, put
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A loyal character in “The Odyssey” who offers Odysseus good winds, and bags the bad.
Cared for Lennie when he was young.
A character Of Mice and Men who is portrayed as “weak” because he has been out-casted from the other ranch hands.
A loyal swineheard in “The Odyssey”.
A compassionate charater who loses hope of his dreams coming true after he must shoot his best friend in the back of the
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A character “The Lady or the Tiger?” who is characterized best as semi-barbaric.
An arrogant suitor in “The Odyssey” who abuses Penelope and is deserving of his death.
The peacemaker character of the Montague household who witnesses the death of Mercutio and Tybalt.
Represents the brutality and barbarity of the Great Depression. From the novel, Of Mice and Men.
A mean ranch owner who deals with his issues as a little man by “pushing” around Lennie.
A wine connoisseur who is walled into a niche by the character Montresor.
The Sun God who is angered by Odysseus’ crew’s actions of eating his cattle.
A character who has been flirting with the princess’s man and is currently waiting behind a door for him to choose her as
his form of justice.
A character who is a symbol of extreme loyalty in “The Odyssey” (waits 20 years and then dies).
A character in “The Odyssey” who holds Odysseus on her island for 7 years. Eventually she lets him choose to stay with
her or go home.
A female monster known for being a deadly whirlpool.
A weak female character from Of Mice and Men who is killed by Lennie. (Note: avoid apostrophe)
The clergyman from Romeo and Juliet who is loyal to Romeo.
A well-known Shakespearean character whose love for Romeo leads to her tragic death.
The mother of Juliet who demands that she marry Paris.
Father of Odysseus.
A character from “The Lady or the Tiger?” who must figure out which door to pick: the on the princess has chosen, or the
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Faces an external conflict with society in “The Lottery”. Eventually it is revealed that she is to be stoned to death. (Note:
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A hero who learns from his mistakes in order to successfully return home from his quest.
An antagonist from “The Veldt” who murders his parents after they choose to shut down his nursery.
A tragic hero character from Romeo and Juliet whose flaw is his obsessive, impulsive love for Juliet.
A character that must allow another to kill his dog, thus affecting George’s decision to kill Lennie on his own.
Faces an extreme person vs. fate external conflict as he is being hunted by the devilish General Zaroff.
A famous flawed character in a Steinbeck novel that is often described through animal metaphors.
A Montague who is a bit of a jokester. Ultimately this leads to his death by way of Tybalt.
Has possession of the symbolic black box from “The Lottery”. (Note: Include Mr).
A good looking suitor who Lord Capulet has set up to marry Juliet.
Poseidon’s son; Cyclops who lost his eye to Odysseus’ spear.
A female, 6-headed rock monster. Odysseus loses six men in a wise decision to pass by this monster.
A loyal son who is one of a few who knows the beggar’s identity in “The Odyssey”.
An antagonist of “The Veldt” who teaches virtual lions to eat her parents.
Father of Juliet.
Vengeful character who is also the narrator of the short story, “The Cask of Amontillado”.
A loyal character who only wants the best for Juliet.
A faithful wife whose intelligence helps to keep suitors from taking her as their wife.
A somewhat barbaric character who knows the truth about the doors.
Dangerous mythological creatures that use their songs to lure sailors to their death.
An angry character whose rage and hate towards the Montague’s has lead to his death by way of Romeo.
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