1. ELA Review 1st Semester Final Exam Truce

2. List of study items: Literary terms: know definitions 2nd Quarter:
Direct & Indirect characterization
Allegory
Irony
Satire
Allusion
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Mood
Tone
Symbolism
Foreshadowing
Point of view
Imagery
Flashback
Plot
Protagonist & Antagonist
Theme
Diction
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:
Truce (Causes of WWI, chapters 2-3 notes, WWI info, feelings at the beginning of the war, the Schlieffen plan, German advantages in the war, 20th century weapons)
justifications of war (Redressing a wrong, proportional to injury suffered)
“Doing the Right Thing” theme (connections to texts this quarter)
Notes on Fairy tales and Fables
Rhetorical strategies (logos, pathos, ethos)
Narrative elements notes
“Harrison Bergeron” (Main plot, irony, theme)
War Horse plot, literary devices, etc. (Pre-AP only)
2nd Quarter:
Animal Farm plot, characters, symbolism
Notes on The Russian Revolution
Lenin
Stalin
Trotsky
Argumentation writing (vs. persuasive writing) (hook, claim, reasons, counterclaim)
The Diary of Anne Frank, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, or I am Malala (Pre-AP only)

3. The following items are not fully covered in this review
The following items are not fully covered in this review. You need to study these items:
Russian Revolution film notes
Trotsky film notes
The plot of Animal Farm (study your character chart, questions, summaries)
The types of government (Totalitarianism, Socialism, Marxism… see chart in the resources section of your Writer’s Notebook)

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

5. 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

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

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

8. How did soldiers feel about joining World War I
How did soldiers feel about joining World War I? What had happened prior to the start of the war to make them feel this way?
Propaganda
Alliances
Distrust
Humiliation
Assassination of Archduke

9. 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
Chemical warfare

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

11. _________ people died or were wounded during World War I
The Schlieffen plan

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

13. ___________ is a logical appeal
Logos

14. An emotional appeal is called _____
Pathos

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

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

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

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

19. What does it mean to “redress a wrong” (from the just war principles)?
To seek justice or revenge for something done to you

20. Define proportional (from the just war principles)
Equal to or equivalent; the same amount

21. ____ 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! Themes also do not mention specific characters/texts)

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

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

24. Sequence of events in a narrative
Plot

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

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

27. The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices
Satire

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

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

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

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

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

33. 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

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

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

36. 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

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

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

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

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

41. The expression of one’s meaning by using language that signifies the opposite, typically to be humorous or for emphasis
Irony

42. Which location in Animal Farm represented Germany ?
Pinchfield Farm

43. Which character in Animal Farm represented Stalin?
Napoleon

44. What element of fairy tales did Animal Farm not have? (there are 3)
No magic
Good did not triumph
No transformation

45. Which character in Animal Farm represented Czar Nicholas II?
Mr. Jones

46. What does the windmill represent?
Stalin’s 5 year plan

47. Which characters in Animal Farm represented Stalin’s secret police?
The dogs

48. Frederick represented ______ from history.
Hitler

49. Which character in Animal Farm represented Leon Trotsky?
Snowball

50. Which character in Animal Farm represented the female working class?
Clover

51. Which location in Animal Farm represented England?
Foxwood Farm

52. Is the phrase “I will work harder” direct or indirect characterization?
Indirect (Remember, indirect characterization includes STEAL: Speech, thoughts, effects, actions, and looks). It isn’t directly told to us by the narrator.

53. Which character in Animal Farm represented the older generation/old men?
Old Benjamin

54. Who often said the phrase “I will work harder”
Who often said the phrase “I will work harder”? What did this character represent in history?
Boxer
Bolsheviks / working class

55. Pilkington represented ______ from history.
Winston Churchill

56. The Pravda (Russian media) was portrayed by which character’s speeches?
Squealer

57. Old Major represented who and what?
Lenin
Karl Marx
Marxism

58. The female upper class were represented by:
Mollie

59. Explain Boxer’s death (fill in the blanks):
He got sick and was taken to the ________ and was turned into ___________. The pigs bought _______ with the money.
Knacker
glue
alcohol

60. What did Moses talk about?
Sugarcandy Mountain

61. The pigs used Boxer’s death against him by telling the other animals _____________ ?
Boxer’s last words were: “Napoleon is always right and I will work harder.”

62. Religion (or the Russian Orthodox church / priests) is represented by
Moses the raven

63. What was a major theme from Animal Farm?
“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

64. Totalitarianism is ___________
A government where one ruler has absolute (total) power and control.

65. Animal Farm is an ____________ story.
Allegory (story with a double meaning)

66. What did Sugarcandy Mountain represent?
Heaven

67. What elements of a fable does Animal Farm have?
Talking animals
A moral or lesson

68. What was ironic in “Harrison Bergeron”?
The weights which were put on people as a handicap would have actually made them stronger.