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Comprehensive Study Guide for English Final Exam Spring 2012

This study guide covers key topics for the English final exam, including defining, paraphrasing, summarizing, inferring about character or culture, vocabulary, punctuation, foreshadowing, and comparison. It provides guidance on various literary concepts and language skills.

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Comprehensive Study Guide for English Final Exam Spring 2012

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  1. Study Guide English I Final Exam Spring 2012

  2. Test Data • 50 multiple-choice questions total • Define or recognize: 13 • Paraphrase: 10 • Summarize: 6 • Infer about character or culture: 6 • Vocabulary/root words: 6 • Correct punctuation: 5 • Foreshadowing: 2 • Comparison: 2

  3. Paraphrase • STATE: Restate in your own words

  4. Paraphrase • ELABORATE: Pay attention to context (who is speaking and why); usually going from formal to informal; DON’T LEAVE ANY INFO. OUT!

  5. Paraphrase • EXEMPLIFY: “What’s up?” “Hello, how are you?”

  6. Paraphrase • NON-EXAMPLE: Summarize; translate

  7. Inference • STATE: An educated guess based on evidence

  8. Inference • ELABORATE: Use background knowledge and account for all the information in the text

  9. Inference • EXEMPLIFY: “He has puffy, red eyes.” He’s been crying.

  10. Inference • NON-EXAMPLE: Fact (or evidence); random guess

  11. Complex Character • STATE: Round (lots of information) and dynamic (change over time)

  12. Complex Character • ELABORATE: Often a main character; sometimes seem contradictory

  13. Complex Character • EXEMPLIFY: Anakin Skywalker, everyone on Glee, Buzz Lightyear

  14. Complex Character • NON-EXAMPLE: Simple character (flat/static)

  15. Archetype • STATE: pattern seen in literature throughout history and around the world

  16. Archetype • ELABORATE: Can include plots, characters, and symbols

  17. Archetype • EXEMPLIFY: Nerd, Boys Meets Girl, Dark=Evil

  18. Archetype • NON-EXAMPLE: Stereotype

  19. Culture • STATE: Group of people with similar values, beliefs, and practices

  20. Culture • ELABORATE: Cultural practices or habits often indicate the values of that culture

  21. Culture • EXEMPLIFY: Gypsy culture requires women to be virgins until they married because “I want something new, not used”  Men are owners and women are objects

  22. Culture • NON-EXAMPLE: Religion

  23. Allegory • STATE: A story with two levels—literal and figurative—in which everything represents something else

  24. Allegory • ELABORATE: Often used in fables (with animals) and parables

  25. Allegory • EXEMPLIFY: Lotus eaters=hippies; lotus=marijuana; Men get tied to boat=intervention

  26. Allegory • NON-EXAMPLE: Allusion or parody

  27. Epic • STATE: long narrative poem about the history or folklore of a culture

  28. Epic • ELABORATE: Could be fiction or nonfiction; shows cultural values; features epic “larger-than-life” hero

  29. Epic • EXEMPLIFY: The Odyssey; Spiderman

  30. Epic • NON-EXAMPLE: Short story; biography; history textbook

  31. In Medias Res • STATE: to begin a story in the middle of the action (“in the middle of things”)

  32. In Medias Res • ELABORATE: Used as a “hook” to engage the reader; later more info. is filled in with flashbacks

  33. In Medias Res • EXEMPLIFY: How I met Your Mother, Twilight, Hunger Games

  34. In Medias Res • NON-EXAMPLE: Chronological order

  35. Aside • STATE: Character talks to audience, unheard by other characters

  36. Aside • ELABORATE: Usually short; other characters are on stage; also called “breaking the 4th wall”

  37. Aside • EXEMPLIFY: Dora the Explorer asks TV audience for help; Zack Morris on Saved by the Bell freezes those around him to talk to the camera

  38. Aside • NON-EXAMPLE: Soliloquy; monologue

  39. Soliloquy • STATE: Character alone on stage reveals inner thoughts/feelings

  40. Soliloquy • ELABORATE: Sounds like “solo,” meaning “alone;” but sometimes the character only thinks s/he is alone on the stage; it’s like talking to yourself

  41. Soliloquy • EXEMPLIFY: Juliet saying “Wherefore art thou, Romeo?” on the balcony when she doesn’t know Romeo can hear her

  42. Soliloquy • NON-EXAMPLE: Monologue; aside

  43. Tragedy • STATE: Ends unhappily, usually with death of main characters

  44. Tragedy • ELABORATE: Can include some funny parts as well, but not at the end

  45. Tragedy • EXEMPLIFY: Titanic, My Girl, A Walk to Remember

  46. Tragedy • NON-EXAMPLE: Comedy

  47. Pun • STATE: Word play with double-meaning

  48. Pun • ELABORATE: Often considered corny or cheesy

  49. Pun • EXEMPLIFY: “Want some dead batteries—they’re free of charge!”

  50. Pun • NON-EXAMPLE: Oxymoron

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