StudyGuideforMid-TermTest
English11H
Set-upoftheTest
READINGSECTION:
MultipleChoicequestionsaboutBeowulf,OldEnglish,Anglo-Saxonculture,ballads,and
MedievalEnglish
• Plot
• Poeticdevices
• Characters
• PassageAnalysis(whereisthenarrator’sbiasobvious?)
• ReadingComprehension(whatisthepurposeofthisline?)
KeyTermIdentificationandExplanation(seebackofthispage)
WRITINGSECTION:
MultipleChoiceSection
• Semicolonsandcolons
• Formattingoftitles
o Full-lengthtext:italicsorunderline
o Shorttext(chapterorshortstoryorarticle):quotationmarks
• CEWandproperquoting
• Thesisstatements
MatchingSection
• Matchclaimstobestevidence
WrittenResponseSection
• GiveaCEWparagraphthat’smissingawarrant-providethewarrant
• Givenlinesfromthetext(evidence),writetheparagraph(claimandwarrantsforthe
evidence,whileproperlyquoting)
ReadingstoReview
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Beowulf
TheCanterburyTales(“GeneralPrologue”and“Pardoner’sTale”)
Ballads:
o “BarbaraAllan”
o “RobinHoodandtheThreeSquires”
WritingstoReview(forCEW)
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Stand-outSentences(forsemicolons/colonsandvividimagery)
Kenningssentence(foralliteration,kennings,andsemicolons/colons)
HarounandtheSeaofStoriesfeedback
SATWriting#1feedback
MORESUPPORT
KeyTermIdentificationandExplanationSection
Ofthetermshere,somewillbeontheexam.Youwillselect2ofthenarroweddownoptionsI
giveyouandforeachwillwriteaclear,descriptive,thorough(approx..3sentences)
explanationofthetermorconcept(usingdefinitionsandexamplesfromourstudies).
Alliteration
Kenning
3EstatesinMedievaltimes
Satire
Methodsofcharacterization
Archetypes
TheHost’sChallenge
BalladCharacteristics
Hero’sJourney
Example:Rhymingcouplets
RhymingcoupletsaretheprevalentpoeticdeviceinTheCanterburyTales.Eventhough
thetaleshavebeentranslatedfromMiddleEnglish,thetranslatorsretaintherhymesat
theendofthelinestogiveitrhythm.Rhymingcoupletsmeanthattwoside-by-sidelines
rhymetogether,buttheonesaboveandbelowdon’trhymewiththem.
(AABBCCDDEEFFGGetc.)
Reviewquestionsfromthequizearlierinthisunit:
WhatisacomitatusinthetermsofAnglo-Saxonsociety?
WhydoesBeowulfoweHrothgar?
HowdoesBeowulffightGrendel?
Whatliterary/poeticdeviceismostprevalentintheBeowulfpoem?
WhatisonepieceofevidencethattheauthorofthewrittenBeowulfwasChristian?
Whatisakenning?
WhatoriginallybothersGrendelandstirshimfromhislair?
WholefttheBritishIslesjustbeforetheAnglo-Saxonsinvaded?
WhatisonewordwestillusethatcomesfromAnglo-Saxon?
WhatistheliterarydevicecalledinHarounandtheSeaofStoriesandTheCanterburyTales
thatinvolvesthetwolayersofstories(onewrappingtheotherwithinit)?
Whatarepatternsofcharactersorstories,repeatedoverandoveragain,called?(example:the
villain,thehero,thehero’sjourney)
WhatisClaim,Evidence,Warrant?
Howdoyouwrapaquoteintoyourownwords?Whatifitislinesofpoetry?