Name: ________________________ Date: _________________ CP
FORMAT OF THE TEST:
Section I: Multiple Choice (based on the texts provided) and Essay
Essay Prompt:
Use what you have learned from reading a short story and poem (included on the exam) to write an essay in which you identify a common theme evident in both texts. Develop your essay by providing textual evidence from both texts. You must use at least two quotes from each text.
Section II: Multiple Choice
 Vocabulary definitions
 Literary terms
 Texts under study so far this school year
WHAT TO STUDY:
I. Be knowledgeable about:
 characters
 key events in the plot
 settings
 themes/messages
 all literary term and new vocabulary we went over in class
 the names of each author under study
II.
Short stories and novella under study:
A. “The Necklace”
B. “Marigolds”
C.
“The Scarlet Ibis”
D.
“Thank You, Ma’am”
E.
“Poison”
F.
“The Cask of Amontillado”
G.
“Harrison Bergeron”
III. Novels and novella under study:
A. The Pigman
B. Son of the Mob
C. The Birds
IV. Literary terms:
1. Plot
2. Setting
3. Conflict
4. Six Categories of Conflict
5. External Conflict
6. Internal Conflict
7. Paradox
8. Allusion
9. Types of Characters
A. Dynamic Character
B. Static Character
C. Round Character
D. Flat Character
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10. Freytag’s Pyramid
A. Exposition
B. Inciting Incident
C. Rising Action
D. Climax
E. Falling Action
F. Resolution
G. Denouement
11. Theme
12. Symbol
13. 3 Types of Irony
A. Situational Irony
B. Dramatic Irony
C. Verbal Irony
14. Point of View: perspective
A. First Person
B. Second Person
C. Third Person
 Limited: focuses on the thoughts and feeling of a single character
 Omniscient: focuses on the thoughts and feelings of all or multiple characters
15. Protagonist
16. Antagonist
17. Satire
18. Utopia
19. Dystopia
20. Foil (referring to characters)
21. Epiphany
22. Stanza
23. Symbol
24. Metaphor
25. Simile
26. Tone
27. Pathetic fallacy
28. Bittersweet
29. Memoir
30. Narrator
31. Tag Name
32. Superstition
33. Portent
34. Prose
35. Stanza
36. Nostalgia
37. Empathy
38. Sympathy
39. Roman à clef
40. Tone
41. Personification
42. Pathetic fallacy
43. Motif
44. Fallibility
45. Infallibility
46. Excerpt
47. Cliché
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Additional literary terms pertaining to Romeo and Juliet:
48. Aside
49. Soliloquy
50. Pun
51. Comic Relief
52. Apostrophe
53. Oxymoron
54. Antithesis
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