Name: _______________________________________
Date:____________________________________
Language Arts III Block ______
DeMarco Language Arts III 2013-2014 FINAL EXAM REVIEW
Final Exam Schedule:
Wed 6/18: 1A, 1B
Thurs 6/19: 2A, 2B
Friday 6/20: 3A, 4A
Monday 6/23: 3B, 4B
ELA III Test format: 100 multiple choice questions at 1 point each. 2 short essay questions at 15 points each. Essay. IN
ADDITION TO THIS STUDY GUIDE, STUDY:
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Study guides provided during the year that include character, plot, vocabulary, and literary devices/elements
Powerpoint slideshows provided during the year
Notes and any other handouts from the year
Vocabulary Workshop charts and exercises from the year
GENERAL STUDY SCHEDULE:
6/6-9
Vocabulary Workshop (see handout) words 1-10
6/10-11 Beowulf and The Canterbury Tales; Vocabulary Workshop words 11-20
6/12-13 Inferno and Oedipus Terms and #1-4; Vocabulary Workshop words 31-40
6/16-17 Oedipus #5-10 and Macbeth; Vocabulary Workshop words 41-50
Beowulf by _____________________________ publication date:______________
BRITISH LITERATURE TEXTBOOK (Purple) page 33
Big Idea: Courage
Essential Questions:
1. Are the virtues and values held by heroic characters still relevant in contemporary society?
2. What is the lasting impact of the oral tradition?
3. How do individuals’ acts of courage impact not only themselves, but also others?
Literary Terms: Define each term and apply to the literature
Epic Kenning -
Epic Hero Assonance -
Alliteration Imagery -
1. What can be inferred about the anonymous author of Beowulf?
2. a) Why is “noble protector of all seamen” a precise kenning for Beowulf?
b) Find another kenning for a character in Beowulf:
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3. What is the setting including time and place of Beowulf? When was it written?
4. Why do the Geats go down to help the Danes at Herot Hall?
5. Why is it that weapons cannot kill Grendel? What finally kills him in the end? Why is this significant?
6. What service did Hrothgar perform for Beowulf’s father? What is the Old English term for this?
7. Recall one plot event that evidences Wiglaf’s character traits. What does he stand for?
8. “Ring-giver” is a kenning used to describe a lord or a king. What does it mean? What literary term is this called?
Find another example in Beowulf.
9. What is the cultural importance of the legend of Beowulf?
10. How did Beowulf ask to be “buried” after his death? Why?
Writing Activity: Write a descriptive paragraph about the battle between Beowulf and Grendel.
Use these “Words to Know”: Affliction, fetter, infamous, murky, livid, talon, and writhing. Include specific references
to what occurred.
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The Canterbury Tales by __________________________ publication date:______
BRITISH LITERATURE TEXTBOOK (PURPLE) pg. 113
Unit: Community
Essential Questions:
1. What universal character traits are most robust and enduring in a community? Which traits are most challenged?
2. What are the secular and religious causes for strife, sacrifice, judgment, and joy in a community?
3. How have traditions, such as chivalry, courtly love, family, and marriage been altered by modern life?
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REVIEW CHAUCER Powerpoint and homework study guide questions
REVIEW YOUR PROLOGUE PILGRIMS CHART
Literary Terms: Define each term and apply to the literature
Frame Story Direct Characterization Tone Stereotype -
Satire -
Irony Indirect Characterization -
Moral Tale Prologue -
Hyperbole Vernacular -
STUDY YOUR PILGRIMS CHART and your homework study guides
“The General Prologue” British Literature Textbook (Purple) pp. 113-137
1. In what month and from what location do the pilgrims set out? How is this month symbolic?
2. Where are the pilgrims going? Give 2 specific reasons why this is a common destination for people of the
Middle Ages.
3. Where did Geoffrey Chaucer get the ideas for all these different pilgrims?
4. What is the cultural and literary importance of the Tales?
5. Draw a Venn diagram in which you compare/contrast the Knight and the Squire. To which estate do they
belong?
6. Describe the two women, the Prioress (Nun) and the Wife of Bath, including physical description and social class.
Why are they in different estates or classes?
7. How does the Parson differ from the Monk and the Friar? To which estate do they belong?
8. Based on his direct and indirect characterization of the pilgrims, how would you describe the narrator’s values?
9. What impression does the narrator give of the church of his day?
10. Why do you think the Host proposes a storytelling contest?
“The Pardoner’s Tale” British Literature Textbook (Purple) pg. 144
1. How is the Pardoner (“Prologue” character) similar to the three men in his tale?
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2. Who is the thief that stabbed their friend? What literary device is used here?
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Why did the young man decide to poison the other two? What was the outcome?
Writing Activity: What is the moral of the story (hint – written in Latin) to be gained from reading “The Pardoner’s
Tale?” How is this moral applicable today?
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Inferno by ____________________________ publication date:______________
WORLD MASTERPIECES TEXTBOOK (GREY) pg. 621
Unit: Spirituality
Essential Questions:
1. Why might a person desire to leave the life they know to go on a spiritual quest or journey involving self-sacrifice or danger?
2. Is there a relationship between sin and punishment?
3. Is it possible to view good and evil in a "yes or no" or "black and white" manner?
REVIEW Powerpoint and the 4 study guides for Cantos I, II, III, and XXXIV homework questions
Literary Terms: Define each term and apply to the literature
Allegory Personification Terza Rima -
Allusion Imagery Tone -
Point of View –
Setting Symbolism -
1. Provide the allegory and symbolism of the following:
a. The woods
b. The beasts
c. Hell or inferno
d. Dante
e. Virgil
f. The circles of Hell
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2. Complete the table of Cantos I, III, V, and XXXIV events, punishments, spirits, and workers.
Canto I
Canto III
Canto V
Canto XXXIV
Spirits, workers,
characters
Plot (what happens in
each canto)
Punishment
Symbolic meaning
3. Give 3 reasons why Virgil is appointed as Dante’s guide through Hell. Who appoints him and why?
4. What were Dante’s political/personal reasons for writing Inferno?
5. Describe 2 allusions from the Inferno from mythology, the bible, or from Dante’s Florence. Describe how they
are used in the story.
THEME: Write a paragraph about the theme of journey in The Canterbury Tales and Inferno.
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Oedipus Rex by _________________________________ publication date:______
WORLD MASTERPIECES (GREY BOOK) pg. 433 REVIEW KEYNOTE and study guide questions from homework
Literary Terms: Define each term and be ready to apply to the literature
Tragedy –
Drama -
Causality –
Catharsis -
Tragic hero –
Dramatic irony -
Tragic Flaw -
Hubris –
Define the 7 components of the Tragic Hero and apply to Oedipus:
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b)
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d)
High Social Status
Hamartia
Peripeteia
Anagnorisis
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e) Catharsis
f) Nemesis
g) Restoration of social order
1. Where/when is the story set?__________________________
2. Define the 3 unities of Greek drama:
3. a) List the 6 functions of the chorus. b) When primarily does the chorus comment on the action of the play? Before or
after events occur?
4. Draw a diagram of a Greek Theatre, labeling 5 parts: Parados, Orchestra, Proskenon, Skene, and Theatron:
Where does the audience sit? ______________________
From which passage ways does the chorus enter? _________________________
What occurs in the Orchestra?___________________________
5. What are Oedipus’ dominant qualities? Is he fair? Is he guilty? Is he moral? Use two examples of actions and
statements that illustrate his qualities.
6. Oedipus has two main interests in locating Laius’ murder. One is to lift the plague from Thebes.
a) What is the second reason for wanting to bring justice to the murderer?
b) How is the second reason significant in terms of plot?
7. What did people visit the Delphic Oracle in Greek culture? With which god is it associated?
8. Analyze the scene in which the messenger informs Jocasta and Oedipus that Oedipus’ father Polybus is dead.
Discuss the scene in terms of dramatic irony.
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9. Throughout the play, Oedipus tries desperately to avoid his fate, and at the same time, learn his identity. How
are his two goals inextricably connected?
10. What is significant about Oedipus blinding himself, especially with Jocasta’s brooches?
Macbeth by ____________________________ publication date:______
BRITISH LITERATURE TEXTBOOK (Purple) pg. 327
Unit: Power and Ambition
Essential Questions:
1. How can ambition help or hinder people?
2. What forces cloud judgment from choosing between right and wrong?
3. What societal and cultural beliefs influence our perceptions and reactions?
Literary Terms: Define each term and apply to the literature
Tragic Hero -
Tragic Flaw -
Hamartia -
Hubris –
Soliloquy -
Aside -
Foreshadowing -
Comic Relief -
Iambic Pentameter -
Foil -
Simile -
Where/when is the story set?_______________________________________________
1. Define these characters:
a. Macbeth:
b. Lady Macbeth:
c. Macduff:
d. Banquo:
e. Malcolm:
2. In the play’s opening scene, the witches say, “Fair is foul and foul is fair.” How is this antithesis or paradox manifested
in Act 5?
3. What is the symbolism and significance of the 3 apparitions of Act 1?
Apparition 1:
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Apparition 2:
Apparition 3:
3. What is Macbeth’s tragic flaw? How is it seen in the play?
4. How is Shakespeare’s work of tragedy different from the tragedies of ancient Greece?
5. How do the characters change over the course of the play (Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Macduff)?
6. How do the apparitions’ three predictions from Act 4 come true?
7. Who becomes King of Scotland after Macbeth is killed? Why?
8. Do you think Macbeth’s downfall is more a result of fate or of his own ambition?
9. What do Macbeth and Lady Macbeth have in common with the villainous characters in “The Pardoner’s Tale” by
Geoffrey Chaucer?
10. How would you describe the attitude toward the supernatural expressed in the play?
11. Draw and label a plot diagram with the 5 acts of Macbeth:
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