Grade 12 Test Review Outline
Literary Terminology – Students should be familiar with the following terms:
Assonance
Consonance
Alliteration
Apostrophe
Mood
P.O.V.
Modernist
Free Verse
Connotation
Denotation
Volta
Caesura
Tone
Symbolism
Feminist
Futility
Syntax
English Sonnet
Scansion
Italian Sonnet
Iambic
Pentameter
Enjambment
Ballardian
Dystopian
Stream-of-Consciousness
Sarcasm
Theme
Characterization
Setting
Content – Students should be familiar with the following pieces of literature:
On Finding a Small Fly Crushed in a Book – Charles Tennyson Turner (poem)
Ozymandias – Percy Bysshe Shelley (poem)
Mirror – Sylvia Plath (poem)
The Yellow Wall Paper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman (short story)
The Lady in the Looking-Glass: A Reflection – Virginia Woolf (short story)
Billenium – J.G. Ballard (short story)
Format – Students will see the following 4 sections:
A) Vocabulary (Literary Terminology) In the vocabulary section, you will need to
match terms to their corresponding definitions. You will also need to provide
explanations (in your own words) for a few key terms. 13 marks
B) Poetry Interpretation (short answer) You will be asked to follow the sequence
of analysis – as discussed in class – for one of the selected poems. 9 marks
C) Short Story Analysis (short answer) You will be asked to answer a question
based on a selected portion from the text of one of the short stories. 9 marks
D) Reflection on Theme (short answer – making connections) You will be asked to
comment on the overarching themes that are present across at least two of the
works we have studied thus far. 9 marks
Grading – Short answer questions will be graded in accordance with the AP rubric in
the course syllabus. Literary Terminology questions will be marked right or wrong
depending on the accuracy of the answers given. 40 marks total