Unit 3 – Transitional Authors: From Romanticism to Realism
Guidelines to Prepare for the Unit Test
 Pay close attention to the questions and discussions we had for each fiction piece. These
questions or discussion ideas have a high probability of showing up on your test.
 You will be especially tested on the literary skills which we learned for each piece and
author. Questions involving each skill will most likely show up in the works of the author
we discussed using them.
o Whitman: tone, cataloguing, parallelism, free verse, transitional characteristics
o Dickinson: slant rhyme, caesuras, rhyme scheme, figurative language (especially
metaphors and personification), themes, and transitional characteristics
o Douglass: style (and his purpose behind his style) and transitional characteristics
o Bierce: irony (situational and dramatic), point of view (all types including
objective vs. subjective), the purpose of story structure, and Realism
 There will be a few questions involving how history influenced the literary shift from
Romanticism to Realism.
 Cold Text: The cold text sections will focus on the transitional literature of the time
period (most likely poems). Be prepared to locate any of the literary skills in a
transitional piece or even to analyze how or why they’re used. Also be prepared to
compare and contrast the main ideas of the cold text pieces with the main ideas of the
poems/stories we read.
 The entire test will be multiple choice (no essay or short answer this time). There will be
anywhere from 50-70 questions.
Unit 3 – Transitional Authors: From Romanticism to Realism
Guidelines to Prepare for the Unit Test
 Pay close attention to the questions and discussions we had for each fiction piece. These
questions or discussion ideas have a high probability of showing up on your test.
 You will be especially tested on the literary skills which we learned for each piece and
author. Questions involving each skill will most likely show up in the works of the author
we discussed using them.
o Whitman: tone, cataloguing, parallelism, free verse, transitional characteristics
o Dickinson: slant rhyme, caesuras, rhyme scheme, figurative language (especially
metaphors and personification), themes, and transitional characteristics
o Douglass: style (and his purpose behind his style) and transitional characteristics
o Bierce: irony (situational and dramatic), point of view (all types including
objective vs. subjective), the purpose of story structure, and Realism
 There will be a few questions involving how history influenced the literary shift from
Romanticism to Realism.
 Cold Text: The cold text sections will focus on the transitional literature of the time
period (most likely poems). Be prepared to locate any of the literary skills in a
transitional piece or even to analyze how or why they’re used. Also be prepared to
compare and contrast the main ideas of the cold text pieces with the main ideas of the
poems/stories we read.
 The entire test will be multiple choice (no essay or short answer this time). There will be
anywhere from 50-70 questions.