FALL SEMESTER FINAL EXAM CONTENT OUTLINE

FINAL EXAM Part 1: Test (100 points) Part 2: Socratic Seminar (Level 2) (50 points) –We will spend Monday and Tuesday preparing for both.

FOR THE FINAL EXAM: “A Growing Nation” Introduction to Romanticism –The beginnings of American literature –the big chart on American Romanticism –the “big ideas” questions –characteristics of romanticism –American literature timeline

The “BIG IDEAS”  When and in what ways did AMERICAN literature first begin to differentiate itself from European writing?  How did early American literature begin to define what “American” means?  Who were the first influential writers of American literature?  What did they write?  Why was their work important?  How is it an example of romanticism?

FOR THE FINAL EXAM: Washington Irving –biography –The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Vocabulary –vice –literati –pedagogue Literary Concepts: –exposition

FOR THE FINAL EXAM: Edgar Allan Poe –Biography film –“The Raven” –Reading Points for Sharper Insights –“The Tell-Tale Heart” Vocabulary –tuberculosis –kindred –40 vocab words from “The Raven” Literary Concepts: –assonance –alliteration –internal rhyme –stanza –parody

FOR THE FINAL EXAM: “New England Renaissance” Transcendentalism –tenets of Transcendentalism Ralph Waldo Emerson –Biography –Nature –“Self Reliance” Vocabulary from the Study Guide to Transcendentalism and Ralph Waldo Emerson