American Literature Final Exam Review 2012
Literary Terms
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Allegory
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Alliteration
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Allusion
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Characterization
Using STEAL
Elements
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Conceits
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Connotation
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Denotation
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Dialect
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Diction
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Folk Tale
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Foreshadowing
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Figurative Language
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Free Verse
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Imagery
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Tone
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Mood
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Meter
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Theme
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Dramatic Irony
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Verbal Irony
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Situational irony
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Metaphor
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Simile
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Hyperbole
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Personification
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Point of View
1st
Person
3 Person Limited
3rd
Person Omniscient
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Imagery
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Parallel
Construction/ Parallelism
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Pronoun-antecedent
agreement
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Genre
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Rhetoric
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Satire
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Sound Devices
(alliteration, rhyme, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia)
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Symbolism
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Syntax
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Vernacular
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Hook/Attention
Grabber
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Introduction
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Topic Sentence
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Body Paragraph
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Conclusion
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Clincher
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Call To Action
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MLA Format Works
Cited List
Basic Requirements
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Questions,
Concepts, and Ideas for review
1.
What does it mean to be an American?
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In
what ways are Americans the same or different from one another?
3.
What was the Great Exchange?
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What is the purpose of an Origin Story?
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What is an Oral
Tradition?
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How does religion affect people’s relationships
and community life?
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What does it mean to have freedom of religion
and freedom of ideas?
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What was the First Great
Awakening and how did it affect religious belief in Colonial America?
9. Explain the characteristics of religious
belief associated with the First Great
Awakening.
10. Who was Thomas Paine
and what particular impact did he have on the American Revolution?
11. What are the main ideas of Thomas Paine's Common Sense and how did they influence
the people in England's 13 North American colonies?
12. Analyze the ideas, beliefs, and practices of the Puritans, the Romantics, and the Transcendentalists.
13. What were the advantages and disadvantages of shared
traditions and beliefs for the early Puritan Colonists?
14. What message does Arthur Miller’s Crucible send through
Danforth about power? Why did this
resonate in late 1950’s/early 1960’s America?
15. How does Poe portray Human rights abuse and torture?
16. Compare and Contrast the Mood in the Raven to the Mood in the
Pit and the Pendulum?
17. Why is Walt Whitman considered the great poet of selfhood and
American Individuality?
18. Discuss Irony in the Wayfarer
and A Man Said To The Universe.
19. Discuss the tension between individualism and community,
material vs. spiritual, progress vs. preservation.
20. Detect and discuss bias and tone as expressed in El Corrido de Gregorio Cortez, Gold Mountain Poems, and My Heart feels Like Bursting.
Texts and Authors Covered
in the Final Exam
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Text
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Author
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Date/Era
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How the World Was
Made
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Newly Created World
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Dream Song
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Before They Got
Thick
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La Relacion
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The Life of Olaudah
Equino
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The Diary of Samuel
Sewall
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Sinners in the
Hands of An Angry God
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The Crucible
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The American Crisis
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The Declaration of
Independence
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Self-Reliance
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Walden
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Civil Disobedience
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Ain’t I a Women
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Devil and Tom
Walker
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The Pit and the
Pendulum
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The Raven
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I hear America Singing
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Song of Myself
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There was a Child
Went Forth
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Sympathy
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We Wear The Mask
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The Wayfarer
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Punctuation
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period
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semicolon
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colon
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Parenthetical
Citations
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Dialogue/Quotations
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