3rd Quarter Exam – English I/English I Hon – Spring 2014
STUDY GUIDE
Writing
Types of writing: expository, persuasive, narrative, descriptive
Spelling
Capatilization
Word Choice
Why do we analyze what we read?
Sentence Revision
Root words
Fining the appropriate heading to a text
Read a letter and add the appropriate line to it
Revise sentence fragments
Use of appropriate sources
Understating a thesaurus
Poetry
Know how to find the rhyme scheme of a poem
What is a couplet?
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Alliteration
Imagery
Repetition
Onomatopoeia
The Odyssey
1. What is the name of Odysseus’s son?
2. What is the name of Odysseus’s wife?
3. How long had Odysseus been gone from home?
4. Where has Odysseus traveled to?
5. Who is the god who protects Odysseus from harm on his return home?
6. Where is Odysseus’s homeland?
7. How many suitors do Odysseus and his son want to kill?
8. What does Athena ask Odysseus to do in the Argos Adventure?
9. A nickname that tells something about a character in an epic tale is called a(n)
10. Who takes 20 years off Odysseus’s true age, making him look like he did when he left home?
11. What is a swineherd?
12. In the beginning of the Argos Adventure, as what is Odysseus disguised?
13. Who is Argos?
14. Who/ What first recognized Odysseus?
15. Who is Altonius?
16. Who/ What died?
17. Who asks to see “the beggar”? Why?
18. What rule from Greek society are the suitors breaking toward the beggar?
19. What happens to the nursemaids?
20. What does Penelope suspect of Odysseus?
21. Who rebukes Penelope?
22. What does Penelope order Eurycleia (her nursemaid) to place outside her room?
23. What is the secret Odysseus and Penelope share?
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24. Which god protects Odysseus while he deals out death in the Odysseus’s Revenge Adventure?
25. What must a suitor do to win Penelope?
26. Who lets Odysseus attempt to string the bow?
27. Who straps on his sword to help Odysseus?
28. How does Penelope show her cleverness?
29. What attribute does Penelope exhibit in the last two adventures?
30. Which name is the Roman equivalent to Odysseus?
31. In the poem “An Ancient Gesture” by Edna St. Vincent Millay, what was the speaker referring to when she said “Penelope did
this too”?
32. In the poem “Ithaca” by C.P. Cavafy, what does the author suggest in the line “pray that your road’s a long one”?
33. In the poem “Ithaca” by C.P. Cavafy, what does Ithaca symbolize?
34. What literary device is the poem “Itahca”?
35. In the poem “Calypso” by Suzanne Vega, what does the speaker repeat the phrase “I let him go”?
36. In the poem “The Cyclops in the Ocean” which literary devices is NOT used?
37. In the poem “The Cyclops in the Ocean” the following lines are an example of which literary device?
“gathered by a slow touch/slash and slither/through the waiting screens/separating into nodules”
38. What are the themes of the Odyssey?
39. Which stories do NOT involve falling into temptation?
40. In which story did Odysseus fall to temptation because of kleos?
41. One of the motifs in the Odyssey is storytelling. What were Greek story tells called during the time of Homer?
42. Motifs are
43. One of the symbols in the Odyssey is food and feasting. Which story is this clearly a negative symbol?
44. The Iliad and the Odyssey are epic poems that were recited in front of audiences. Both begin by invoking which god/goddess?
45. The Iliad and the Odyssey are examples of what type of literature?