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AmericanLiteratureExamReview

Mrs.Bowles11thGrade
Literature
WorldOnTurtlesBackIroquois
SinnersintheHandsofanAngryGodEdwards
SpeechbeforetheVirginiaConventionHenry
TheRavenPoe
LecturetoaMissionaryRedJacket
SelfRelianceEmerson
CivilDisobedienceThoreau
TheCrucibleMiller

Reading
Youwillhaveasectionthatrequirestheblindreadingofanonfictionpassage.Youwillanswer
readingtypequestionssuchasvocabularyincontext,mainidea,authorialintent,tone,andquestions
thatrequireyoutomakeinferences.

Grammar/Usage
Youwillbeexpectedtoidentifytheerrorintheparagraphthatisprovided.

Writing
Youwillneedtoidentifystructuresimple,compound,complex,compoundcomplex.Youwillhave
towriteacompleteessayforthefinalononeoffivetopics.Youwillneedtoknowhowtostructurean
essay.Whataretheparts?Whatgoesineachsection?Howdoyouwriteandintroductionanda
conclusion?Whatisatransition?Wheredothemainsentences(thethesisstatementandtopic
sentences)go?Whatisanoppositionparagraph?Youwillneedtoknowelementsassociatedwith
MLAwritingaswellaspersuasivetechniques.

Termstoknow
foil
allusion
archetype
theme
irony
myth
simile
metaphor
personification
mood

logos
pathos
ethos
tone
internalrhyme
endrhyme
alliteration
aphorism
allegory
onomatopoeia

rhymescheme
meter
imagery
symbol
conflict
internal/external
setting
paradox
motif
foreshadowing

citation
opposition
paragraph
introduction
body
conclusion
topicsentence
thesisstatement

workscitedpage
audience
transition
evidence
parallelism
bibliomaniac
hyperbole
metonymy

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