ELA B10 Review 2013
ELA B10 Final Review
Section I: Matching and/or fill-in-the-blank
1. Historical documents (EO): documents that give us clues about past events.
2. Primary evidence (Chinese, 216): Historical records of the actual words or other
documentation of a person who participated in or witnessed the events described.
3. Secondary evidence (Chinese, 216): Historical records of the findings of someone who
did not participate in the event but who used eyewitness evidence.
4. Memoir (Night notes): a historical record composed from personal observation and
experience, but that focuses on a significant historical event.
5. Ballad (“Ballad of Birmingham”): a song or poem with a regular rhyme, a strong rhythm,
and a refrain. Most have a strong emotional and sentimental quality.
6. Imagery (Birmingham): Images that evoke the senses.
7. Irony (Birmingham): when there’s a difference between what you think is going to
happen and what actually happens.
8. Metre (Birmingham): a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
9. Rhyme Scheme (Birmingham): a pattern of end rhymes.
10. Repetition (Birmingham): repeating a line or word for rhetorical effect.
11. Mood (Birmingham): the prevailing emotional atmosphere of a story or poem.
12. Subject of poem (Birmingham): what the poem is about.
13. Elegy (“Blue”/ “The Six Million”): a poem lamenting the death of an individual
14. Concrete poem (“Blue”/ “The Six Million”): the graphic shape of a poem conveys the
meaning, effect, or subject of the poem.
15. Holocaust Elegy (“Blue”/ “The Six Million”): a lament for the six million people who lost
their lives in the Holocaust
16. Enjambment (“Blue”/ “The Six Million”): when a sentence continues across the line of a
poem.
17. Soliloquy (Macbeth Act I): a speech that is spoken by a character to him/herself,
regardless if other characters are on stage.
18. Motif (Macbeth Act I): a recurring image or idea in a text.
19. Aside (Macbeth Act I): lines spoken by a character intended for the audience.
20. Dramatic Irony (Macbeth Act I): when the audience knows something that characters
don’t know.
21. Mood (Macbeth Act I): the atmosphere that pervades a literary work.
22. Comic Relief (Macbeth Act II): a humorous break in the tension of drama
23. Double Entendre (Macbeth Act II): a statement that has two different meanings.
24. Dramatic Purpose(Macbeth Act II):
25. Allusion (Macbeth Act III): a reference to a person, character or other text outside of the
text
26. Pathos (Macbeth Act IV): evoking pity in the audience.
27. Antithesis (Macbeth Act IV): the opposite of something.
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28. Foreshadowing (Macbeth Act IV): used to give the reader important antecedent action.
29. Paradox (Macbeth Act V):
30. Antithesis (Macbeth Act V):
31. Symbolism (Macbeth Act V):
32. Suspense (Macbeth Act V): the intense feeling that an audience goes through while
waiting for the outcome of certain events
33. Foreshadowing (Macbeth Act V):
34. Metaphor (Macbeth Act V):
35. Science Fiction (“The Feeling of Power”)
36. Satire (“The Feeling of Power”)
37. Ironic Situation(“The Feeling of Power”)
38. Insert: (Oil: Three Perspectives)
39. Cut: (Oil: Three Perspectives)
40. Fade-in: (Oil: Three Perspectives)
41. Fade-out: (Oil: Three Perspectives)
42. Dissolve: (Oil: Three Perspectives)
43. Wipe: (Oil: Three Perspectives)
44. Burn in: (Oil: Three Perspectives)
45. Burn out: (Oil: Three Perspectives)
Section II: Literary Devices
 Questions asking you to identify figures of speech in lines from various
Section III: Short Answers/Multiple Choice
You will have choices for short answers.
 Questions related to character, plot, conflict, and theme (from all texts we’ve read)
 Questions relating to ethics and equity.
 Questions related to human rights/genocide from your inquiry paper.
 Questions related to Macbeth
 Questions related to Night
 Freedom March (Birmingham)
 Jim Crow Laws (Birmingham)
 Equity and equality (EO)
 Disenfranchisement (Chinese)
 Civil rights (EO)
 Segregation (EO/Chinese)
 Three types of questions and explanations (Night)
 Film/Poster Technical Techniques (Cyber Safety Poetry & Oil Viewing)
Section IV: Essay Question
 Choose one of four prompts. Deal with THREE texts/characters.
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 The prompts will deal with equity and ethics and the themes from Macbeth.
 Be sure to construct it like a well-written five-paragraph essay.
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Night (Memoir)
Macbeth (Play)
“Honour” (Short story)
“Marigolds” (Short story)
Chinese Immigration documents (non-fiction)
Equal Opportunity documents (non-fiction)
“Equal Opportunity” ( poem)
“Spill! A Gulf Oil Spill Scrapbook” (Scrapbook entries)
“The Feeling of Power” (Short story)
“After the Sirens” (short story)
“Blue” (poem)
“The Six Million” (Poem)
“I Sit Down on the Floor of the School for the Retarded” (Poem)
“Ballad of Birmingham” (Ballad Poem)
“First They Came” (Poem)
“Going Home to Auschwitz” (Personal Essay)
Cyber Safety Posters (Visual posters)
Oil: Three Perspectives (Ad/News Clips)
“Scholars Look to Clear Macbeth’s Name” (Newspaper article)
“Syrian Crisis” (Newspaper article)