English 12 Honors - Semester 1 Final Exam Review Guide
The objective portion of the exam will include 120 questions counted as 1 point each. The Reflection Essay will
be scored out of 30 points.
Review the following to prepare for the semester exam:
Section One – Grammar and Mechanics – Choose the grammatically correct sentence.
10 multiple-choice questions (similar to the DOL quiz)
Section Two – Reading Comprehension
20 – m/c questions - 3 (previously unseen) nonfiction reading passages – one longer, two shorter
Sections Three, Four, and Five - Lit Terms/Concepts (23 questions total) – Know the term and its definition.
From The Poisonwood Bible (summer reading graphic organizer)
Ethnocentrism
Allusion
Denotation (a specific type of diction)
Epigraph
Hyperbole
Malapropism
Metonymy
Palindrome
Paradox
Synecdoche
Syntax
Tautology
From Point of View handout
Third Person Objective
Third Person Omniscient
Third Person, Limited
First Person (PARTICIPANT)
Innocent-Eye Narrator (Naïve POV)
From “Shooting an Elephant”:
Symbol
Paradox
From the handout “Satire and Satirical Devices”:
Exaggeration
Incongruity
Parody
Satire
Irony
Farce
(TURN OVER)
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Section Six - The Poisonwood Bible (20 objective questions)
Be prepared to identify the following characters based on statements about each one:
Eeben Axelroot
Nelson
Lumumba
Anatole
Adah
Leah
Rachel
Orleanna
Nathan
Ruth May
Mobutu
Section Seven - Othello (20 objective questions)
Review your study guide questions for each act of the play.
Section Eight - Vocabulary (27 questions) – Know definitions (not parts of speech)
Essay Direction Words: (multiple choice) (Each definition will be presented in an academic scenario like
on the quiz.)
Summarize
Compare
Define
Contrast
Analyze
Classify
Discuss
Diagram
Outline
Paraphrase
Anglo-Saxon Vocabulary: (matching)
Benighted (week 1)
Winsome (week 1)
Behoove (week 2)
Puerile (week 3)
Virile (week 3)
Sanguine (week 3)
Prevaricate (week 4)
Scintillate (week 4)
Ignominy (week 5)
Contrition (week 5)
Othello Vocabulary: (multiple choice)
Castigation
Tempest
Malice
Bawdy
Anon
Reproach
Perdition
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