Fall Semester Exam Review
2011-2012
The following will be information you may want to consider looking at before you
take your exam next week. Best of luck to you all!!
Persuasive Writing
-rhetorical appeals, specifically pathos or emotional appeal
-persuasive appeals (snob appeal, band wagon, testimonial)
-focusing on facts in an argument allows the reader to make a better opinion about
what aspect of the writer’s information?
-Define the following: persuasion, testimonial, bandwagon, glittering generality,
plain folks appeal, ad hominem, transfer technique, emotive language,
generalization
Witchcraft, Puritanism, “The Crucible”
- where did the most famous witch trials take place?
- why did the witch hunts begin?
-what methods were used to torture/kill witches?
- Calvinism/John Calvin, Martin Luther
- King Henry and the Church of England
- Puritan doctrine: Justification, Predestination, Sanctification
- Limited Atonement, Irresistible Grace, Perseverance of Saints
-Covenant of Works, Covenant of Redemption, Covenant of Grace
_ Puritan customs and punishments: public affection, not attending church, etc.
- What was Puritan literature primarily composed of?
- Themes in “The Crucible”
Logical Fallacies
Know the following fallacies and an example:
false analogy, false dilemma, ad hominem, begging the question,
hasty generalization, circular argument
The Road
Basically, know the content of the novel. If you read, you should be fine. If you did
not read, now might be a great time to look the work over.
Etymology and Research/MLA
-What language(s) have impacted English the most
- Who created the English language, essentially? (groups of people)
-What are the rules of writing a works cited page?
-What are the standard rules of MLA for writing an essay/research paper?
- What is an abstract?
Poetry Vocabulary
Know the following – alliteration, rhyme scheme, assonance, consonance, line, meter,
rhythm, elegy, personification, hyperbole, apostrophe, colloquialism, figurative
language, parallelism, paradox, romanticism, symbolism, tone, iambic pentameter,
meter, tercet, blank verse,
Transcendentalism, Thanatopsis, Literary Genres
-How did transcendentalists view themselves?
-what is an aphorism? know an example and the definition
- define thanatopsis
- be able to identify metaphor, irony, quatrain in a poetry passage
- know the literary movements and the sub-genres of each movement and their time
periods