English 3—Midterm Exam Study Guide
Native Americans
pilgrims/Puritans/separatists
“Puritan Ethic”
Southern Planters
folklore
oral tradition
origin myth
introduction
body
conclusion
carpe diem
allusion
thesis
explorers’ accounts
topic sentence
unity
coherence
primary source
bias
secondary source
style
tone
metaphor
plain style
ornate style
paraphrase
drama
actor
cast
playwright
dialogue
stage directions
act
scene
scenery
comedy
tragedy
dramatic monologue
flashback
imagery
irony
plot
exposition
rising action
climax
falling action
setting
symbol
theme
stanza
paragraph
chronological order
journal
denotation
connotation
topic sentence
dialect
parable
propaganda
oratory
logical appeal
emotional appeal
ethical appeal
Salem
“witch hunt”
Arthur Miller
dramatic irony
verbal irony
Age of Reason
biography
autobiography
aphorisms
persuasion
audience
rationalism
romanticism
renaissance
New England Renaissance
transcendentalism
gothic/dark romantics
nature romantics
Fireside Poets
POV
omniscient POV
direct characterization
indirect characterization
inferences
satire
revolution
speech
political speech
charged words
essayist
tyranny
sermon
repetition
restatement
parallelism
antithesis
rhetorical questions
diction
loaded language
bandwagon
categorize
poppet
lechery
critical review
logical fallacy
agape
concilliatory
beguile
floundering
retaliation
adamant
cleave
sibilance
tantalized
purged
contentious
deposition
imperceptible
deferentially
anonymity
prodigious
effrontery
confounded
incredulously
blanched
pallor
ameliorate
avidly
base
deference
theology
quail
gingerly
abomination
blasphemy
predilection
ingratiating
dissembling
calumny
inculcation
propitiation
licentious
vindictive
paradox
somber
faction
homage
autocratic
crucible
"witch-hunt"
Authors/Literary Works
Native Americans
“Earth on Turtle’s Back”
“When Grizzlies Walked Upright”
“Navajo Origin Legend”
William Bradford—from Of Plymouth Plantation
Edward Taylor—“Huswifery”
Anne Bradstreet—“To My Dear and Loving Husband”
Arthur Miller—The Crucible
Benjamin Franklin—The Autobiography, “Poor Richard’s Almanack”
Thomas Jefferson—Declaration of Independence
Thomas Paine—The Crisis
Patrick Henry—“Speech at the Virginia Convention”
Edgar Allen Poe—“Fall of the House of Usher”