Literary Types
Final Summative Exam
Study Guide
The Final Summative Exam has 150 questions. Each question valued at 1/2 a point each for a total of 75 points:
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Multiple Choice
 Matching
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True False
LAP 1: Short Fiction
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What happens when Roger tries to steal Mrs. Jones’ purse in “Thank You, M’am? What inferences can you make about the two characters? What does Mrs. Jones mean when she says, “shoes come by devilish ways like that will burn your feet”?
 What is the major conflict in “Interlopers”? Explain the plot development and how this conflict is a central theme throughout the story.
 What is the “disturbing element in the forest”? What literary device does Saki use to introduce this
“element”? How is this relevant to the story’s conclusion/resolution?
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What is the major conflict in “The Most Dangerous Game”? With whom or what do the characters struggle?
 What is the meaning of the title, “The Most Dangerous Game”? How is this relevant to the animal at the top of the food chain? Why is this important to the story? What important piece of information does the last line give you- “He had never slept in a better bed, Rainsford decided.”
 “Blues Ain’t No Mockin’ Bird”: from what the characters say and do, what do we know about each of the characters?
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What is a flat, round, static, and dynamic character? Describe the characters in “Destiny”. What role does each character play in the development of the plot of the story?
 What is a scarlet ibis and why is the title of the story “The Scarlet Ibis”? Who is most affected by the death of the scarlet ibis and why?
 What is the narrator’s central conflict in “The Scarlet Ibis? How does he deal with this conflict?
 What literary device is used in “The Necklace”? How does this further emphasize the theme within the story?
LAP 2: Of Mice and Men
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Know and understand the roles and effects of the characters
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Identify character description, action, or quote. o Lennie o George o Candy o Slim o Curley o Crooks o Curley’s wife o Carlson o the boss o Whit
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Identify the following literary devices within quotes: o Foreshadowing o Simile o Metaphor o Personification

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Know and understand o Plot development
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Exposition
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Rising action
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Climax
 Falling action
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Resolution o Setting o Characterization
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Describe the relationship between George and Lennie. How does Steinbeck portray the two characters?
 How does Steinbeck foreshadow Lennie’s death?
 What events foreshadow the death of Curley’s wife?
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Describe the incident between Lennie and Curley.
 What do Lennie’s hallucinations represent?
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How does Steinbeck create suspense at the close of the novel?
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Steinbeck uses characterization to develop the major themes of the novel (the American Dream, friendship, and loneliness). How do the characters contribute to this development?
LAP 3: Romeo and Juliet
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Who or what does the chorus primarily function as? What term does the chorus use to describe Romeo and Juliet?
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What is a Shakespearean Sonnet and what is the format? What is the rhyme scheme?
 What is Romeo’s grievance in Act I, scene I? How old is Juliet?
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In what format is the Act II prologue written?
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Be able to identify the following literary devices: o Simile o Metaphor o Oxymoron o Personification o Monologue o Soliloquy o Aside o Allusion o Alliteration
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Where and when does the play take place?
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Know and understand that Romeo and Juliet is a comedy and a tragedy. What is comic relief? Who represents comic relief in the play?
 Who is the “Prince of Cats”?
 What is “loving hate” an example of?
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Be able to translate the meaning of lines from the play. o “By my count, I was your mother much upon these years that you are now a maid” o “Verona’s summer hath not such a flower” o “She speaks, yet she says nothing. Her eye discourses.” o “Wherefore art thou Romeo?”
 What are Romeo’s final words?
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According to the Prince, who is at fault for the death of Romeo and Juliet?
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What do Capulet and Montague vow at the end of the play?

Independent LAP: Night
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On the train to Auschwitz, what does Madame Schachter have visions of?
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What town does Elie and his family come from?
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After they arrive at Gleiwitz, what does Elie hear in the middle of the night?
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What areas were the Jews forced to live?
LAP 4: Poetry
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Who are the three characters in a poem?
 In “Beware: Do Not Read This Poem,” with what does the woman surround herself?
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What does the author, Ishmael Reed, refer to in the opening stanza of the poem?
 What happens when the villagers break into the old woman’s house?
What does the speaker say happens to the readers of the poem and what warning does the speaker give the readers?
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What is the main theme of the poem?
 In “Cold as Heaven,” what does the speaker describe for her grandmother?
 What does the line(s) “the bottle/dripping minutes through a tube” reveal about what is happening to the speaker’s grandmother?
 Be able to read and interpret lines from the poem, “Metaphor”
 In “A Simile,” how does the speaker note that the deer walk? Who is the speaker addressing? Who or what is the speaker describing?
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Know that tinkle, jangling, gush, and shriek are all examples of onomatopoeia.
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What types of bells does Edgar Allan Poe mention in “The Bells”?
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Identify the sound devices in a line of poetry: alliteration, assonance, consonance, repetition, rhyme, and onomatopoeia.
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The speaker of a poem is the character who speaks in, or narrates the poem.
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Know the difference between denotation and connotation.
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Identify figurative language usage in lines of poetry.