Comp/World Lit II/IIA
Fall Final Exam 2013 Study Guide
Mr. Vigil
Fences Character List: Fill out a definition of who the character is and what purpose they serve
in the play.
1. Lyons:
2. Troy:
3. Rose:
4. Cory:
5. Alberta:
6. Gabriel:
7. Raynell:
8. Jim Bono:
9. Mr. Stawicki
10. Mr. Rand
11. Zellman
Important moments in the Play: Answer the following study questions about the play.
1. How is the analogy of baseball significant in the play Fences by August Wilson?
2. What is the significance of the time in which the play occurs (from the start of the play to
the end)?
3. How is the patriarchal figure of Troy Maxson reciprocal in the three characters of Lyons,
Cory, and Raynell?
4. How does August Wilson utilize the analogy of baseball to show the dilemmas of the
characters in Fences? Identify the three strikes in the life of Troy and Cory Maxson.
5. What is the significance of the title Fences? How does August Wilson portray denotative
and connotative meaning of physical and emotional fences?
Night Character List: Fill out a definition of who the character is and what purpose they serve
in the story.
1. Madame Schachter:
2. Rabbi Eliahou:
3. Eliezer’s Father:
4. Juliek:
5. Moishe the Beadle:
6. Idek:
7. Akiba Drumer:
8. Joseph Mengele:
9. Eliezer:
10. Bela Katz
11. Young Pipel
12. Yossi and Tibi
13. Meir Katz
14. Stein
Important moments in the Story: Answer the following study questions about the play.
1. What are the names of each place within the story and what happens in each place?
Chronological order of the places Eliezer traveled to in each section.
2. What are the Jewish holidays Eliezer details and the significance of them within the
narrative?
3. Name each Kommando, Kapo, and friend of Eliezer when he is in Auschwitz. How are
they connected based on their relationship to the narrator?
4. How does Elie Wiesel capture the dehumanization of the Jewish prisoners?
5. How is self-preservation embodied in the novel Night?
Literary Terms and Vocabulary: Define each term and literary element.
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2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Vernacular:
Tone:
Irony:
Metaphor:
Concentration Camp:
Protagonist:
Holocaust:
Foreshadowing:
9. Narrative:
10. Aryan:
11. Anti-Semitism:
12. Rising Action:
13. Segregation:
14. Conclusion:
15. Kaddish:
16. Ghetto (from the novel):
17. Point of View:
18. Gestapo:
19. Simile:
20. “Arbeit Macht Frei”:
21. Climax:
22. Resolution:
23. Talmud:
24. Jews:
25. Thesis:
26. Connotation
27. Denotation
28. Discourse
Short Story Unit
Glencoe Elements of Literature book
Review Genre Focus Short Stories pages 2-3, Literary Analysis Model pages 4-8, Plot and
Setting pages 10-11
What are the elements that shape a short story? PlotCharacters
Setting
ExpositionComplications/ConflictInternal conflictExternal conflict-
Climax-
Resolution-
Basic Plot Structure
CLIMAX
EXPOSITION
(Basic Situation)
 Setting
 Characters
 Conflict
- internal
- external
Suspense-
Foreshadowing-
Irony1.
Suspense
Foreshadowing
Irony
PLOT
RESOLUTION
or DENOUEMENT