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American Lit. Final Review
American Lit. Final Review
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A game to review for the American Lit. final exam
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Your full-size essay must have these:
vague answers
Intro., body, and conclusion
Full sentences, contractions, and opinion
The words "I" and "you"
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In
Unwind
, Neal Shusterman shows that unwinding is
a beautiful way to give life to those who need it.
a necessary evil.
something that is neither wrong nor right.
an immoral way to end the life of unwanted teenagers.
3
This literary movement made much use of regional dialect.
Post-modernism
Modernism
Frontier Literature
Romanticism
4
Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson are officially classified as
poets of Transcendentalism.
poets of the Romantic Period.
novelists of the Modern Period.
novelists of Early American Literature.
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What is situational irony?
readers know something that one or more characters do not
saying one thing, but meaning another; sarcasm
when the end of a story is different from what was expected
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Author? “... a child is both terminated and yet kept alive is called ‘unwinding’.”
Arthur Miller
Neal Shusterman
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Langston Hughes
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What is "incredulous"?
dominating; dictatorial; overbearing
tireless
skeptical; doubting; disbelieving
seeming to last forever
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What is satire?
poem in which a character addresses a silent listener
using humor to make a point, cause positive change
saying one thing, but meaning another; sarcasm
a poem about rural settings
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What is "deference"?
charitable; generous; kind
guess
submission or yielding out of respectful courtesy
code of manners
10
This movement’s writers believed that the individual should be paramount.
Transcendentalism
Romanticism
Civil War Literature
Modernism
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Author? “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Walt Whitman
Arthur Miller
Zora Neale Hurston
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Author? “I hear American singing, the varied carols I hear”
Emily Dickinson
Frederick Douglass
Walt Whitman
Langston Hughes
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Author? “I have eaten / the plums/ that were in / the icebox”
Julia Alvarez
William Carlos Williams
Henry David Thoreau
T.S. Eliot
14
What does "effuse" mean?
to join together
a component of an electronic machine
to pour out or flow out of
unable to understand
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What is "scorn"?
seeming to last forever
resource; something that’s suitable
physical vigor; energy
hatred; dislike
16
What is an "epitaph"?
moral corruption or perversion
resource; something that’s suitable
a written inscription on a tomb/grave marker
authoritative statement; decree; edict
17
What is "author's purpose"?
the main idea of the text
the central message of a work
act of developing a character
reason for writing
18
What is "melancholy"?
rough
sad
tireless
hatred
19
Your full-size essay must have this:
conclusion first
thesis
opinion
two paragraphs only
20
What does "tumultuous" mean?
riotous; rough; disturbed; in an uproar
immediately; promptly
agreeable; pleasing in manner
dominating; dictatorial; overbearing
21
What is a symbol?
word choice and arrangement of words
describes the character using specific words about him
the main idea of the text
something that represents or stands for something else
22
What is "local color"?
highlights characteristics unique to a specific area
the feeling created in a reader by a literary work
form of language spoken in a specific area of the country
folk songs among enslaved and oppressed African Americans
23
Do
NOT
use these in your full-size essay:
contractions
paragraphs
third-person
facts
24
Do
NOT
use this in your full-size essay:
quotes
first person
time periods
textual evidence
25
Bring this to your exam:
notecards (Scantron only
notes
notecards (essays only)
books
26
In “To Build a Fire”, the man’s main downfall is his pride. This struggle is an example of
dramatic irony
situational irony
external conflict
internal conflict
27
Spirituals contain religious imagery borrowed from
St. Paul’s letters.
the New Testament.
the Torah.
the Exodus story.
28
What is a slave narrative?
Autobiographical account of the life of a slave
refusal to obey unjust laws in order to cause change
folk songs among enslaved and oppressed African Americans
29
This movement’s writers were affected by World War I.
Post-modernism
Civil War Literature
Modernism
Frontier Literature
30
This literary period’s writers tend to be disillusioned.
Modernism
Romanticism
Post-modernism
Transcendentalism
31
What is "brood"?
to become less moral
to strike or hit hard
to think deeply
to guess
32
The transcendentalists believed that
the individual is paramount.
all of the above
the human mind can figure out anything.
nature should be connected with and valued.
33
Frederick Douglass’ mistress, Mrs. Auld, stopped teaching him to read. At this, Douglass felt
pity
garrulous
wrath
abhorrence
34
We read some firsthand accounts of battle as we studied this period.
Civil War Literature
Transcendentalism
Modernism
Post-modernism
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What is "punctilious"?
on time
strict; showing great attention to detail
a tooth used for grinding
self-satisfaction; smugness
