Study Guide CFA and Semester 1 Exam

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Study Guide You will have 4 literary passages: 2 poems 1 excerpt from a play 1 excerpt from a novel You will have a total of 40 questions You will have 75 minutes for the reading test; it will take you time to read the passages before you can go in to the questions

Study Guide Interpret the purpose of figurative language and images Define "arrestingly“ Know what a parenthetical comment is and why it is used Know what a “simile” is and identify the purpose for using the “simile” Know what it means to “paraphrase” Know the difference between “mood” and “tone” Know what an “allusion” is Know what a “metaphor” is Be able to identify the “subject” and “verb” in a passage Identify the “theme” of a poem Identify a narrator’s “attitude” Remember who “Polonius” is – father giving Laertes advice “To thine ownself be true …

Study Guide Be able to identify a tone as being: Flippant - not showing a serious or respectful attitude Pretentious - attempting to impress others Argumentative – to be in conflict with another Humorous – comical, funny Pragmatic - dealing with things sensibly and realistically

Study Guide Know these words for one of the excerpts: Impudent -- not showing due respect for another person; impertinent Omnibus -- a vehicle similar to an American bus Hansom -- a light 2-wheeled covered carriage Heterodox -- not conforming with accepted or orthodox standards or beliefs Pedantic -- precise, exact, perfectionist

Practice This is an excerpt from a poem. Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night. 1. Where are the literary devices? Anaphora (2) Simile (2) Imperative Sentence 2. What is the end rhyme pattern? 3. What is the subject of the verb “hath”?

Essays On the writing CFA – you will have 2 essays Essay 1 Write an essay explaining how the author employs literary techniques to develop the complex meanings attributed to the following item --- in the poem.

Essays Both essays will be prose analysis essays: Essay 2 Write a well organized essay in which you analyze the literary techniques the author uses to describe the setting and characterize the people who live there.

Identifying Sentence Errors fluid volatile frivolous variable unpredictable unstable  Which word does not belong in this group? simple sentence compound sentence complex sentence compound-complex sentence run-on sentence Comma splice fragment  Can you recognize the following when you see them in a paragraph?

Practice (3 compound, 2 complex, 1 simple) 1.Ernest Hemingway was born in Illinois, but he lived as an ex-patriot in Paris. 2.William Faulkner was from Mississippi; however, he often traveled abroad and was an inspiration for Gabriel Garcia Marquez. 3.When he staged his plays at the Globe, William Shakespeare was quite pleased to know the Queen was often be in attendance. 4.In the afternoon, Stephen King would take a break from writing and often find himself reading H.P. Lovecraft. 5.Arthur Miller was married to Marilyn Monroe; we will read Miller’s play, Death of a Salesman, after Christmas. 6.In the afternoon, Nora would often find herself visiting the confectioner because she loved macaroons.

(1 fragment, 1 run on, 2 comma splices, 1 compound- complex sentence,1 simple sentence) 1.Ernest Hemingway was born in Illinois, he lived as an ex-patriot in Paris. 2.William Faulkner was from Mississippi he never traveled to Columbia but he influenced and inspired for Gabriel Garcia Marquez. 3.When he staged his plays at the Globe. 4.In the middle of the afternoon, Stephen King -- the author of Salem’s Lot -- would take a break from writing. 5.Marilyn Monroe was married to Arthur Miller, she later married Joe Dimaggio. 6.If Nora is like an angel, she has no sex; she represents anyone who wants the freedom to support themselves and be free of spousal dependency. Practice