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Name: ___________________
Mr. Nurre
English 1
EXAM DATE: 15 December 2015
Semester Exam Study Guide
Reminder: The Semester Exam will account for 20 percent of your overall grade for this course.
Anything and everything we have covered this semester may (and likely will) appear on the
exam.
Advice: Have a working understanding of each text listed and each major term/concept. Also,
this study guide is a rough sketch of what we have covered so far; not everything we covered is
reflected here. The best way to study will be to rewrite, reorganize, and add to your notes, likely
organized by each text. This technique may sound like the extensive process that it is, but it will
be the most effective way to prepare and to know the material. Start with the process sooner
rather than later. Go through your notes thoroughly so that you are prepared beyond just the
study guide. If you choose to use someone else’s notes/study guide you will likely be unprepared.
Shortcuts often get you lost…
Exam Structure (Pending):
A. Reading Comprehension (20 points)
B. Grammar (20 points)
C. Close Reading Analysis (10 points)
D. Short Answer (20 points)
E. Essay (30 points)
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Texts: You are responsible for having read and understood the follow works; be prepared
to analyze, synthesize, and interpret the following narratives. As you prepare, consider
the following characters and their role/significance for each narrative.
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Walter van Tillburg Clark’s The Ox-Bow Incident
 Gil
 Croft
 Canby
 Sparks
 Major Tetley
 Gerald Tetley
 Smith
 Davies
 Osgood
 Rose Mapen
 Jenny “Ma” Grier
 Farnley
 Kinkaid
 Martin
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Edgar Rice Burroughs: “Tarzan of the Apes”
 Tarzan
 Jane
 Terkoz
 The Gorilla Tribe
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William Faulkner: “A Rose for Emily”
 Miss Emily Grierson
 Colonel Sartoris
 The Townsfolk (especially male leaders)
 Homer Barron
 Tobe, the Negro Servant
 The Pharmacist
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Herman Melville: “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street”
 Narrator
 Turkey
 Nippers
 Ginger Nut
 Bartleby
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Ernest Hemingway: “Soldier’s Home
 Harold Krebs
 Krebs’ Mother
 Krebs’ Father
 Krebs’ Sister
 The Girls of the Town
 The European Women
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Graham Greene’s “The Destructors”
 T (Trevor)
 Blackie
 Mike
 Mr. Thomas/Old Misery
 The Man in the Carpark
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Doris Lessing’s “A Sunrise on the Veld”
 The Boy
 The Buck
 The Ants
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Ovid’s Metamorphoses
 Julius Caesar
 Ovid
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Casesar Augustus
Four Ages after the First Creation
The Flood
Jove
Lycaon
Deucalion
Pyrrha
Second Creation
Apollo
Daphne
Io
Juno
Phaethon
The Heliades
Callisto
Arcas
The Raven and the Crow
Prophecies of Ocyrhoe
Mercury
Battus
Aglauros
Minerva
Envy
Europa
Cadmus
Thebes
Snake of Thebes
Actaeon
Diana
Semele
Tiresias
Narcissus
Echo
River Styx
Bacchus
Pentheus
Acoetes
Perseus
Atlas
Andromeda
Medusa
Medea
Jason
Aeson
Pelias
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Pelias’ Daughters
Icarus
Daedalus
Pyramus
Thisbe
Perdix
Hercules
Nassus
Deinira
Lichas
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Billy Collins: "Introduction to Poetry" (356)
ee cummings: "1(a" (351)
Robert Frost: "Design" (365)
Robert Herrick: "To Virgins, to Make Much of Time" (381)
Gwendolyn Brooks: "We Real Cool" (393)
Joan Murray: "We Old Dudes" (393)
William Carlos Williams: "Poem" (398)
Amy Lowell: "The Pond" (404)
Ezra Pound: “In the Station of a Metro” (in class)
Stephen Crane: "A Man Said to the Universe" (438)
Bill Hicock: "Making it in poetry" (438-9)
Kevin Pierce: "Proof of Origin" (439)
William Blake: "The Chimney Sweeper" (448-9)
Lewis Carroll: "Jabberwocky" (461)
Helen Chasin: "The Word Plum” (467)
John Maloney: "Good!" (477)
Theodore Roethke: “My Papa’s Waltz” (in class)
William Shakespeare: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" (492)
Sherman Alexie: "The Facebook Sonnet" (495)
Walt Whitman: "When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer" (511-12)
Richard Hague: "Directions for Resisting the SAT" (513)
Elizabeth Bishop: “The Fish” (in class)
II. Major Terms and Ideas: Consider these major terms and ideas and the way they appear in the
stories we have read and discussed. Be prepared to discuss these ideas in short answer and essay
questions; be prepared to compare multiple stories based on the ways they deal with one or more
of these concepts.
 Gender: The Role of Women and Men
 Class Critiques
 Social/Cultural Critiques
 Narrative Structure: Exposition, Major Conflict, Rising Action, Climax, Falling
Action/Moral Fallout
 Elements of Fiction: Plot, Character, Setting, Symbolism, Theme
 Dynamic and Static Characters
 Protagonist
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Antagonist
Cultural Values: Greek, Roman, American
Cultural Ideals v. Cultural Realities
Language and Narrative: Narrative Style and Presentation
o 1st Person
o 2nd Person
o 3rd Person
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Reliable Narrator/Narration
Epic Poetry
Colonialism/Colonization
Capital/Commodity
Trauma
Shame
Social and/or Personal Ethics
Hypocrisy
Violence/Brutality
Perspective: Subjective v. Objective
Role of Nature
Role of Supernatural
Leadership
Foreshadowing
Microcosm
Fate
Autonomy
Identity
Fault/Shame
Martyrdom
Catharsis
Feminine Ideal (Roman, Greek, American)
Masculine Ideal (Roman, Greek, American)
Progress: Social and/or Individual
Maturation
Struggle/Obstacles
Importance of Experience
Metamorphoses
Epic Poem (and its 5 components)
Invocation
Muses
in medias res
Epithets
Catalogues/enumeratio
The Speech
The Intervention of Gods
The Hero-Community Dynamic
Myth
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Allusion
Patricians/Plebians
Proem
Morality/Ethics and Behavior, Thoughts,
Action/(In)action; Dynamism/Staticity
Destruction
Creation
Consequence
God-Human Relations
Reliance on the Supernatural
Social Tensions
Cultural Values
Honor
Hubris
Humility
Hero
Accident/Happenstance
Fault
Father-Son (or Parent-Child) Relationships
Grief
Emotion/Affect
Irrationality
Impulse
Guilt
Archetype
Victimization
Guile
Violence
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Metaphor
Symbol
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Voice
Diction
Denotation
Connotation
Syntax
Tone
Mood
Allusion
Image
Imagery
Sensory Details
Symbol
Allegory
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Didactic/Polemical Poetry
Irony
Situational Irony
Verbal Irony
Satire
Dramatic Irony
Cosmic Irony
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Assonance
Consonance
Euphony
Cacophony
Rhyme
End Rhyme
Internal Rhyme
Exact Rhyme
Approximate Rhyme
Rhythm
Stress/Accent
Meter
Line
Enjambment
Form
Fixed Form
Stanza
Rhyme Scheme
Couplet
Heroic Couplet
Tercet
Triplet
Quatrain
Sonnet
Italian/Petrarchan Sonnet
English/Shakespearean Sonnet
Elegy
Ode
Free Verse/Open Form
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III. Grammar: You are responsible for understanding the definition of the following terms. For
grammar, you must also understand the function of the concept—namely how to identify it in a
sentence. Study by review old homework and additional exercises. This section of the exam will
be multiple choice.
 Chapter 12: Parts of Speech
o Nouns (common and proper)
o Pronouns: Demonstrative, Personal, Relative
o Antecedents
o Adjectives
o Verbs
o Adverbs
o Prepositions
o Conjunctions
o Expletives
 Chapter 13: Parts of a Sentence
o Fragment
o Subject
o Predicate
o Complements
o Predicate Nominative
o Predicate Adjective
o Direct Object
o Indirect Object