English 11 Midterm Review
What is the correct way to head a paper?
What is a story meant to teach a religious lesson?
Who wrote “To my dear and loving husband”?
What movement or era did Jonathan Edwards lead?
What is an oral essay meant to persuade the audience called?
Who creates the concept of the “Transparent Eyeball” Who creates the concept of the “Transparent Eyeball”? Explain the concept.
Who is jailed for not paying his poll tax? Why did he not pay it?
What is the theme of “Thanatopsis” and who is it by?
Name one work we read by Edgar Allan Poe and identify the characteristics of gothic ficition.
Author, movement, and protagonist of The Crucible
Why does the minister wear a “black veil” in Hawthorne’s story?
Transcendental beliefs about humans
What literary term is “Fish and visitors go bad in three days”?
Who wrote “Civil Disobedience”? Why is it an important document?
What is the main purpose of the explorers’ writings?
Discuss elements of Whitman’s poetry and style
Discuss elements of Dickinson’s poetry and style.
Name the elements of Gothic Literature.
What are two rhyming lines of poetry together called?
Explain iambic pentameter.
What is an allusion?
What do you use to determine the rhyme scheme of a poem?
What is the central idea of a work?
What is the term for presenting ideas equally in structure that are of equal worth?
What is a frame story and give an example from literature we have read.
Finish the line, “Whosoever would be a man must be…”
Answer… A non-conformist
Continued… Who said these words?
What is a simile?
Why did Thoreau go to live in at Walden Pond?
What are the names of the literary periods and discuss their chronology?
What were the symbols used in Walden?
What is personfication? Give an example from something we have read.
Who was so upset about his Puritan ancestors that he changed his name?
What is an aphorism? Give an example.
What is a stanza?
Be able to match people with their literary period.
In The Crucible, the basic philosophy in Salem is…
Why is The Crucible an allegory?
What does Parris think when he sees the girls dancing in the forest?
Who is the specialist who comes to Salem to help out?
What is the fate of Giles Cory?
Why does Abigail accuse Elizabeth of witchcraft?
Why is it so important for the court to get John Proctor to confess?
What causes John Proctor to recant/recall his confession?
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