Midterm Review
Lit terms
You will be asked to analyze lines or text OR you will need to know how these terms are found in the
works that we’ve read.
 Elegy ( “Seafarer”, “On My First Son”, cold read)
 Allusion (“Beowulf”)
 Alliteration (“Beowulf”, cold read)
 Kenning (“Beowulf”)
 Litotes (“Beowulf”)
 Personification
 Frame story (prologue to Canterbury Tales)
 Irony (verbal, situational, dramatic)
 Symbolism (Gawain)
 Repetition (ballads)
 Refrain (ballads)
 Theme (Hamlet, ballads)
 Setting (pastoral)
Breakdown of Sections on Exam:
I.
Anglo-Saxons – 10 questions.
1.
Overall values
2.
Role of the poet
3.
How is the seafarer an elegy? What is the seafarer’s impression of the Anglo-Saxons?
4.
How do the works represent the Anglo-Saxons?
5.
Beowulf as an epic hero
6.
Key ideas (aggressive society, heroic qualities, community, religious aspects, role of the poet).
Remember, key idea and claim statement questions.
7.
Literary elements (kenning, litotes, allusion, alliteration, personification)
8.
Cold Read (3) – literary elements
II.
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III.
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5.
Middle Ages -- 10 questions.
Frame story – how does the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales function as one?
Characterization- look at the ways in which Chaucer introduces his pilgrims.
Key ideas (chivalry, Roman Catholic Church, feudalism, progression of poetry) key idea claim
statement questions.
Types of irony
“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”; where do you see symbolism?
Cold Read (3)--components of a ballad (repetition, Q & A format, refrain, omission of detail)
literary element, summarizing
Renaissance -- 10 questions – Sonnets/Poetry
Theme, author’s purpose and voice
Metaphor
“To the Virgins Make Much of Time” – The poem is on there in full text
Setting
Author’s meaning/purpose
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8.
Compare “To the Virgins…” and “To his Coy Mistress” (#5 on your homework)
Pastoral Poetry (2 poems)
Apostrophe (“Death Be Not Proud”)
IV.
1.
2.
Renaissance -- 5 questions – Hamlet
“To be or not to be”
Theme (mortality, revenge, lies/deceit, madness) 2 of them- read/interpret quotes
V.
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5.
Literary Criticism -- 10 questions
Social Class Literary Theory
Historical Literary Theory
Psychological Literary Theory
Reader Response Literary Theory
Read excerpts from text and determine which theory would be the best approach in critiquing
the excerpt.
V.
Vocabulary – Word Parts – (re-, in-, im-, em, aud-, -ped-, -dict-, -port-, -able, -ly)
Learning Targets:
1.
I can summarize the text’s main idea and purpose. (knowledge/understand)
2.
I can interpret the text and make inferences from it. (knowledge/understand)
3.
I can identify the author’s purpose in a text. (knowledge/understand)
4.
I can explain an author’s purpose and its effect on the readers. (reasoning/analyze)
5.
I can critique the text for supporting evidence of stated and inferred meanings. (skill/evaluate)
6.
I can examine the way the author carefully position details which support the theme.
7.
I can examine characters and their motivations in connection to the author’s purpose.
(reasoning/analyze)
8.
I can examine the author’s motivation in his or her phrasing. (reasoning/analyze)
9.
I can analyze a topic or theme from historical accounts or historical context to identify author’s
purpose.
10.
I can analyze the structure or organization of a work to determine its meaning.
11.
I can compare and contrast different texts.
12.
I can make an inference from the text.