FALL SEMESTER FINAL
EXAM CONTENT OUTLINE
FINAL EXAM
• Part 1: Test (100 points)
• Part 2: Socratic Seminar (Level 2)
(50 points)
–We will spend Monday and
Tuesday preparing for both.
FOR THE FINAL EXAM:
• “A Growing Nation”
• Introduction to Romanticism
– The beginnings of American literature
– the big chart on American Romanticism
– the “big ideas” questions
– characteristics of romanticism
– American literature timeline
The “BIG IDEAS”
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When and in what ways did AMERICAN literature
first begin to differentiate itself from European
writing?
How did early American literature begin to define
what “American” means?
Who were the first influential writers of American
literature?
 What did they write?
 Why was their work important?
 How is it an example of romanticism?
FOR THE FINAL EXAM:
• Washington
Irving
–biography
–The Legend of
Sleepy Hollow
• Vocabulary
– vice
– literati
– pedagogue
• Literary Concepts:
– exposition
FOR THE FINAL EXAM:
• Edgar Allan Poe
– Biography film
– “The Raven”
– Reading Points
for Sharper
Insights
– “The Tell-Tale
Heart”
• Vocabulary
– tuberculosis
– kindred
– 40 vocab words from “The
Raven”
• Literary Concepts:
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assonance
alliteration
internal rhyme
stanza
parody
FOR THE FINAL EXAM:
• “New England
Renaissance”
• Transcendentalism
– tenets of
Transcendentalism
• Ralph Waldo
Emerson
– Biography
– Nature
– “Self Reliance”
• Vocabulary from the
Study Guide to
Transcendentalism
and Ralph Waldo
Emerson