Mrs. K. Kotty
English I
Semester I Study Guide
Short Story Unit – Define and apply to examples on test. If you are given a passage, you should be able to
determine what term the passage illustrates.
Plot
Irony
 Exposition
 Dramatic
 Rising Actions
 Situational
 Climax
 Verbal
 Falling Actions
Internal Conflict
 Resolution
 man vs. self
 Suspense
External Conflicts
 Surprise Ending
 man vs. man
Character
 man vs. nature
 Protagonist
 man vs. technology
 Antagonist
 man vs. supernatural
 4 methods of characterization
Point of View
Setting
 1st person
Theme
 3rd person objective
Allusion
 3rd person omniscient
Symbol
Mythology
 Details about characters not listed on this study guide will not be needed.
Domain and symbols
 Zeus/ Jupiter
 Hades/ Pluto
 Aphrodite/ Venus
 Hera/ Juno
 Helios/Apollo
 Ares/Mars
 Poseidon/ Neptune
 Artemis/Diana
 Vesta/Hebe
 Athena/ Minerva
 Hermes/ Mercury
 Demeter/ Ceres
 Hephaestus/ Vulcan
Story Details
 Juno’s relationship with Jupiter
 Birth of Minerva
 Juno’s vengeance against Hercules
 Worship of Vesta
 Vulcan deformity
 Venus’s birth
 Vulcan’s punishment of Juno
 Mercury’s temperament as a child
 Ceres relationship with plants
 Mercury’s relationship with Apollo
 Ceres relationship with Proserpina
 Mercury makes the lyre
Other Stories’ Plots
 Neptune
 Perseus
 Rhea
 Venus
 Vestal Virgins
 Muses
 Proserpina
 Arachne
 Pandora
 Hercules
 Cronus
 Prometheus
Underworld
 Tartarus
 Elysian Fields
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Styx
Tantalus
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Sisyphus
Cerberus
House on Mango Street—Very specific questions.
 Plot Based Questions
 Motif based multiple choice questions
Familiarize yourself with all the major characters.
Elenita
Nenny
Vargas children
Alicia
Geraldo
Louie’s Cousin
Meme Ortiz
Earl
Mamacita
Marin
Minerva
Rafaela
Sally
Rachel & Lucy
Esperanza
Mrs. Cordero
Carlos and Kiki
Cathy
Darius
Sire
Edna’s Ruthie
Three Sisters
Non Fiction – Questions from this unit will be the most specific on the final.
Author Background
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nelson Mandela
Margaret Truman
Richard Wright
Genre definition
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Speech
Biography
Autobiography
Plot based questions for…
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“I Have A Dream”
“Glory and Hope”
“U.S. vs. Susan B. Anthony”
from Black Boy
“The First Appendectomy”
Grammar & Usage
 Common Usage
 Apostrophe Usage
 Commonly Confused Words
o Affect/Effect
o Among/Between
o Fewer/Less
o Than/Then
o They’re/There/Their
o Your/You’re
o To/Too/Two
o Its/It’s
o Accept/Except
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William Nolen
Frank McCourt
Barbara Kingsolver
David Raymond
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Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
Jon Krakauer
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Memoir
Personal Essay
Eyewitness Account
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Interview
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“Life Without Go-Go Boots”
from Angela’s Ashes
“On Being 17, Bright and Unable to Read”
“Unfinished Business”
“Into Thin Air”