FINAL EXAM REVIEW
HONORS ENGLISH 11 – 2011-12
Review all class notes given for the historical background to each literary age. Review all author background sheets,
discussion questions, quizzes, and literary devices specific to the stories. Know primary characters, plots, and themes for each
story. Be able to recognize specific genres and their characteristics (Frame story, letters, chivalric romance, ballads, drama,
tragedy, gothic novel, dark satire, etc.) Be able to match descriptions to characters and/or authors. Be able to recognize
definitions and/or examples of literary devices. Be able to identify a historical period to its type of literature, literary themes,
and social issues emphasized during that period. Remember that all class notes can be found on the website.
 Medieval Literature (NOTES packet & textbook)
 “Federigo’s Falcon”
 Paston Letters
 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight excerpt
 L’Morte de Arthur excerpt
 Folk Ballads: “Barbara Allan,” “Sir Patrick Spens,” “Get Up and Bar the Door”
 Renaissance Literature
 Life of Shakespeare & Globe Theater (NOTES & Handout)
 Gunpowder Plot (packet)
 Background to Renaissance NOTES
 Macbeth (Character sheet, Discussion Questions, Textbook)
 Romantic Literature
 Life of Mary Shelley
 Background to Romantic Age and Romanticism
 Frankenstein (Discussion Questions, Character sheet)
 William Wordsworth (textbook)
 Milton’s Paradise Lost (textbook excerpt)
 Victorian Literature
 Background to Victorian Age NOTES
 The Picture of Dorian Gray (Character Sheet and Discussion Questions)
 Doppelgänger NOTES
 Author Bio: Oscar Wilde (Handout)
 Vocabulary terms
 Modern Age Literature
 Background to Modern Age NOTES
 Author Bio: Aldous Huxley (Handout)
 Brave New World (Discussion Questions)
 Vocabulary terms
 Poetry
 Forms of Poetry (Haiku, quatrain, villanelle)
 Poetic Terms (Handout; Literary Device lists)
 Author NOTES
 All author notes covered in class can be found on the class website
 Background information, best known works
 Literary Devices
 All literary devices covered on the literary terms tests can be found in the back of the text book and on
the website; you should also have the definitions written out in your notes.
 List 1: Allegory-Couplet
 List 2: Denotation-Hyperbole
 List 3: Iambic Pentameter-Oxymoron
 List 4: Parable-Synesthesia
 Remaining Terms: T-Z