Mrs. Hogan/Ms. Miksch/Mrs. Edmonds
Below are
possible and
partial
responses.
The Crucible
By Arthur
Miller
2014
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your own notes!
Add examples
from class texts to
clarify.
Study for your exam and
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Setting
Salem, Mass.
1692
Characters
Abby Williams
John Proctor
Elizabeth Proctor
Conflict
False accusations of witch
craft, adultery
POV
3rd
Theme
Be honest to yourself
and others
Evil is disguised behind
something holy
Of Mice and
Men by John
Steinbeck
Salinas Valley, Ca.
Great Depression
George Milton
Lennie Small
Trying to survive against the
odds, they try to get ahead
despite obstacles
3rd
The American dream is
not necessarily
achievable
The Great
Gatsby
by F. Scott
Fitzgerald
Long Island
(1920’s)
 East Egg
 West Egg
 Valley of
Ashes
Nick Carraway
Jay Gatsby
Daisy & Tom
Buchanan
Jordan Baker
Myrtle Wilson
An ill-fated adulterous love
affair between Gatsby and
Daisy ends in tragedy.
1st
Gain of wealth to move
in social class –
American Dream
Limited
A
Midsummer
Night’s
Dream
by William
Shakespeare
Athens, Greece
(the woods)
Hermia
Helena
Demetrius
Lysander
Two couples fall into a
twisted love triangle while
under the spell of fairies
3rd
Love is difficult (The
course of true love
never did run smooth)
The Catcher
in the Rye
Pennsylvania
(Pencey Prep)
NYC
Holden Caulfield
Phoebe Caulfield
D.B. Caulfield
Robert Ackley
Ward Stradlater
Maurice
Sunny
Jane Gallagher
Sally Hayes
Choices made in
adolescence can be crucial.
- He wants to reject
the “Phonies” in the
adult world
- Yet he wants to be
accepted by others.
- Lives off memories of
his childhood.
1st
Alienation – form of self
protection
Phoniness of the adult
world
Painfulness of growing
up
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Terms to Know:
Term
Allegory
Definition
Allusion
The reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work or work of art.
Climax
The moment in a literary work at which the crisis reaches its point of greatest intensity and is thereafter resolved
Conflict
The problem or struggle;
man vs. man (or self, society, etc.)
Figurative
Language
A deviation from what speakers of a language understand as the ordinary or standard use of words in order to
achieve some special meaning or effect. Two most common – similes and metaphors
Frame Story
Story within a story
Imagery
A common term of variable meaning, imagery includes the "mental pictures" that readers experience with a passage
of literature; Adjectives to create vivid mental pictures.
Any writing in verse or prose that has a double meaning. This narrative acts as an extended metaphor in which
persons, abstract ideas, or events represent not only themselves on the literal level, but they also stand for
something else on the symbolic level; When a story represents a much larger topic.
Metaphor
Comparing two things without using like or as
Simile
Comparing two things using like or as
Motif
A recurring theme, image, idea, or situation in a literary work
Hyperbole
Exaggeration for effect
Verbal irony
What is said is the opposite of what is meant, telling the truth, but not being straight with it, sarcasm
Dramatic Irony
Things are understood by the audience by are not known by the characters in the book
Situational
Irony
The outcome is very different from what is expected
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Point of View
(POV)
The way a story gets told and who tells it. It is the method of narration that determines the position, or angle of
vision, from which the story unfolds.
1st POV
When the main character is telling the story( using “I”)
3rd POV
When an outside person, a narrator, tells the story (using words such as he, she, they, etc.)
Idiom
An expression that means something other than its literal meaning; cannot be literally translated to another
language.( Examples: flat broke; follow suit; catch his eye.)
Setting
The time and place a story happens
Personification
When a non living thing is given human characteristics
Oxymoron
Opposites that are used to describe something
Voice
The writer’s way of conveying the story; manner in which the narrator addresses the reader
Style
Any specific way of using language, characteristic of a writer, genre, period, imagery, or other language feature(s)
Infer
Determine from evidence rather than direct explanation
Understatement Language that makes something seem less important than it really is
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OTHER THINGS TO KNOW FOR THE EXAM
Short Answer – You must choose TWO of the five prompts given and write a well-developed paragraph consisting
of four to six well-developed sentences. Please use the above notes on the novels we have read to think on which
prompts you can relate the text to in your writing.
a. Responsibility has been a theme in the books we have read.
b. Why and how does setting play a major role in the tone or action of the plot?
c. Compare and contrast two different characters that we have read in class. Make sure to include TWO
similarities and TWO differences in your writing.
d. Point of view and how it affects the reader and the outcome of the story.
e. Choose one of the literary devices to define and relate it to any of the works covered this year.
Essay - There are two essay prompts, but you must choose ONE and construct five well-developed paragraphs.
1. Do choices make the person? Create an argument agreeing or disagreeing with this statement using text that we read.
OR
2. Think of how characters that we have read have tried to find a place in society. Use examples of the text read.
GOOD LUCK!