1. ELA Review Figurative Language The Tipping Point Truce

2. List of study items: 2nd Quarter:
Rhetorical strategies (logos, pathos, ethos)
John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address (speech)
Literary elements vs. literary devices
Narrative elements
TWIST (tone, word choice, imagery, style, theme)
Truce (chapters 2-3 notes, WWI info)
“Harrison Bergeron”
Argumentation writing (vs. persuasive writing)
justifications of war
Greek/Latin roots, prefixes, suffixes
War Horse plot, literary devices, etc. (Pre-AP only)
English Final Exam Study List (ELA)
(the material that you need to study for this final is in your English Writer’s Notebook)
1st Quarter:
The Tipping Point concepts:
(epidemics, law of the few, stickiness factor, power of context, mavens, connectors, salesmen, fad, exponential growth, a tipping point)
Paul Revere (connections to The Tipping Point)
Malala (connections to The Tipping Point)
“Doing the Right Thing” theme (connections to texts this quarter)
*Literary techniques (definitions):
metaphor, symbolism, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, simile, foreshadowing, allusion, alliteration, imagery, personification, flashback
*Literary techniques (identification): Be able to identify literary techniques, including figurative language, in quotes
A Separate Peace plot, literary devices, etc. (Pre-AP only)

3. Greek and Latin Root Kahoot Review

4. Name 3 things you should have in an argumentation essay.
Claim, Reason, Evidence, Example, Explanation, Counterclaim, Rebuttal

5. From The Tipping Point, ______ people are a type of exceptional people
From The Tipping Point, ______ people are a type of exceptional people...they are energetic, knowledgeable, influential
Law of the Few

6. From The Tipping Point, what is exponential growth?
When something grows at a rate proportional to the size of the population

7. short lived; a craze; widely shared enthusiasm for something
A fad is
short lived; a craze; widely shared enthusiasm for something

8. From The Tipping Point, what is “a dramatic moment in an epidemic when everything changes all at once”?
a tipping point

9. The Stickiness Factor is ______
A way to make a message memorable

10. _______ is an epidemic rule that emphasizes that humans are more sensitive to their environment than they realize.
The Power of Context

11. rare people with large social networks
Connectors are ______
rare people with large social networks

12. He is a connector (and a salesman). He spread a word-of-mouth epidemic
How does Paul Revere relate to concepts from the book The Tipping Point?
He is a connector (and a salesman). He spread a word-of-mouth epidemic

13. Salesmen mostly focus on ______
Persuading people

14. Someone who loves learning and sharing knowledge
A maven is ______
Someone who loves learning and sharing knowledge

15. Allies: France, Belgium, Britain Other: Germany
Name the countries on the two sides for World War I (Allies: _____, Other:___)
Allies: France, Belgium, Britain
Other: Germany

16. Estimate: How many people (soldiers and civilians) died in World War I?
over 14 million

17. The men who signed up felt _____ about enlisting to fight in World War I
Excited
Eager

18. Why did people feel the way they did about joining World War I
Why did people feel the way they did about joining World War I? What had happened prior to the start of the war?
Propaganda
Alliances
Distrust
Humiliation
Assassination of Archduke

19. How did the weapons change during WWI?
New guns developed
Tanks were invented
Airplanes were used (bombs)
Heavy artillery that fired farther and faster was developed

20. What is the name of Germany’s plan to first attach France via Belgium, then attack Russia?
The Schlieffen plan

21. The study of writing or speaking for persuasion.
rhetoric

22. ___________ is a logical appeal
Logos

23. An emotional appeal is called _____
Pathos

24. An appeal to establish credibility of the speaker or writer
Ethos is...
An appeal to establish credibility of the speaker or writer

25. Name the strongest appeal in this propaganda (pick 1):
Pathos

26. Name the strongest (1) type of appeal in this war propaganda poster:
Logos

27. ____ is the author’s opinion about life, nature, or society.
Theme
(Remember: a theme is not just one word and it is not a summary!)

28. The author’s choice of words is _____
Diction

29. _____ goes against the main character (often the bad guy).
Antagonist

30. Sequence of events in a narrative
Plot

31. What does it mean to “redress a wrong”?
To seek justice or revenge for something done to you

32. Equal to or equivalent; the same amount
Define proportional
Equal to or equivalent; the same amount

33. Argumentation writing focuses on this _____ appeal.
Logos or logical

34. A scene that interrupts the action of a work to show a previous event
Flashback

35. The main character in a work; the character with whom the readers identify
Protagonist

36. Words or phrases a writer uses to represent persons, objects, actions, feelings, and ideas descriptively by appealing to the senses
Imagery

37. A comparison of two different things or ideas through the use of the words “like” or “as”
simile

38. The use of hints or clues in a narrative to suggest future action
Foreshadowing

39. A reference in a literary work to a mythological, literary, or historical person, place, or thing
Allusion

40. Comparison between two seemingly unlike things that actually have something important in common
Metaphor

41. The way you feel when you read a story
The way you feel when you read a story. The author purposefully writes a story to create this
Mood

42. The perspective from which a narrative is told
Point of view

43. 1st person “I” “we” “my” “our” 3rd person “they” “he” “she”
Identify two different types of point of view. Give a pronoun for each one to show what that point of view is.
1st person “I” “we” “my” “our”
3rd person “they” “he” “she”

44. The practice of beginning several consecutive or neighboring words with the same sound
Alliteration

45. The use of any object, person, place, or action that has both meaning in itself and that stands for something larger than itself, such as quality, attitude, belief, or value
Symbolism

46. Imitative harmony; the use of words that mimic the sounds they describe
Onomatopoeia

47. The kind of metaphor that gives human characteristics to inanimate objects or abstract ideas
Personification

48. A deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration
Hyperbole

49. The writer’s or speaker’s attitude toward a subject, character, or audience
Tone

50. “It made the school look like a museum
“It made the school look like a museum.” What literary device is this an example of?
Simile
Bonus 2

51. “With nothing to block it, the wind flung wet gusts at me…There were several trees bleakly reaching into the fog.” What literary device is this an example of?
Personification
Bonus 2

52. “The tree was tremendous, an irate, steely black steeple beside the river.” What literary device is this an example of? (2 correct options)
Imagery
Personification
Bonus 2

53. “It had loomed in my memory as a huge long spike dominating the riverbank, forbidding as an artillery piece...” What literary device is this an example of?
Simile
Bonus 2

54. “In through swinging doors I reached a marble foyer, and stopped at the foot of a long white marble flight of stairs. Although they were old stairs, the worn moons in the middle of each step were not very deep.” What literary device is this an example of?
Imagery
Bonus 2

55. “She had a curious habit of prefacing everything she said with a soft sibilant sound.” What literary device is this an example of?
Alliteration
Bonus 2