9 H - REVIEW SHEET
The exam will have the following format:
Section I: Matching
This section will include literary terms; vocabulary terms; authors and their works; authors and their contributions to literature, drama and poetry; and literary movements. You should study your notes, handouts, and PowerPoint presentations.
The following terms/people should be studied, as well as all of the other items found in your notes, handouts, and PowerPoints:
Magical Realism, Existentialism, The Absurd, Soren Keirkegaard, Jean Paul Sartre, Xenia, Epic and Characteristics of an Epic, Epic Hero, Invocation to the Muse of Poetry, Epithet, Epic Similes, Formal Rhetoric, “In Medias Res,” Dramatic Irony, Theatron, Orchestra, Skene, Parados, Dionysus, Oracle, Strophe & Antistrophe, Tragedy, Greek Masks, Thespis, and Aeschylus.
Section II: Short Essay
A. Review all of the background information on the authors you have been exposed to throughout the first semester. Review the time period in which each author lived and study the contributions these authors have made to literature, poetry, or drama. The authors we have studied include: Paulo Coelho, Albert Camus, Homer, Sophocles, and the author of your independent reading assignment.
B. Understand the significance of the titles of each of the works you have been exposed to throughout the first semester: The Alchemist, The Odyssey, Antigone, Oedipus, and The Stranger.
C. Review the films we have viewed this semester: The Odyssey, The Minority Report, and Rabbit-Proof Fence. Reflect on how these films both educate and entertain viewers.
Section III: Formal Written Speech
This section will include the following works: The Odyssey, The Alchemist, Antigone, Oedipus the King, The Stranger, Minority Report, and Rabbit-Proof Fence. Refresh your memory on each work. This section involves an in-depth analysis of the main characters found in each of these works. Although this is written as a speech, all thesis paper and log entry rules apply. Therefore, review the rules of writing a formal paper.
*Helpful hints for studying:
Review all notes, old tests and quizzes, logs and writing assignments. Refresh your memory of the main characters, settings, themes, topics of discussion, etc. for each work.
The works we have covered during the first semester include the following:
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Odyssey by Homer
Oedipus& Antigone by Sophocles
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Minority Report directed by Steven Spielberg
Rabbit-Proof Fence directed by Philip Noyce
Independent Reading Assignment:
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Sound of the Waves by Mishima
47 Ronin Story by John Allyn
The Sounds of the River by Da Chen
