Mr. Mutter’s Final Final Exam of Metaphysical Splendor
English 10 CP
Part One: Vocabulary Units 8-12 (70 questions)
Standard multiple choice questions with complete the sentence, choose the definition, and synonyms and antonyms.
Part Two: Literary Terms (40 questions)
Questions will be in various formats—some will require you to look at a text and identify what it is an example of, others will require you to match definitions with the proper words, etc.
archetype
allegory
alliteration
assonance
consonance
connotation
denotation
hyperbole
imagery
metaphor
simile
onomatopoeia
oxymoron
paradox
irony
personification
rhyme scheme
allusion
conceit
end rhyme
slant rhyme
metonymy
synecdoche
mixed metaphor
double entendre
parallel structure
pathetic fallacy
motif
theme
mood
tone
red herring
ad hominem
post hoc
slippery slope
appeal to authority
appeal to ignorance
hasty generalization
Part Three: Poetic Forms (15 Questions)
You’ll need to be able to identify the conventions and structures of the following:
Haiku
Limerick
Ballad
Villanelle
Sonnet
Stanza
Quatrain
Sestet
Tercet
Octave
Couplet
Shift/Turn
Part Four: Literature (35 Questions)
Be familiar with the following authors and their literary characteristics:
Ann Bradstreet
John Winthrop
William Bradford
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Walt Whitman
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Be familiar with the following concepts
Transcendentalism
Self-reliance
American Romanticism
Return-to-nature
Puritanism
Predestination
Free will
Utopia
City upon a hill
Be familiar with the following metaphors, concepts, and characters from our literature:
The Scarlet Letter:
· Hester
· Pearl
· Dimmesdale
· Chillingworth
· Mistress Hibbins
· Governor Bellingham
· the black flower
· the rosebush
· the forest
· Bellingham’s armor
· the election day speech
· the scarlet letter (in all it’s forms)
· the green letter (Pearl’s)
· Hester’s cottage
· the black weed on top of the unknown man’s grave
· the black man
· Hester’s attempt to take the scarlet letter off
· the scaffold
Puritanism:
· the simple life
· the wilderness
· knit up as on body/man
· predestination
Transcendentalists:
· self-reliance
· the evil of charity
· we are shamed by a blade of grass and a blooming rose
· nature vs. society
· individualism
· the source of morality/virtue
· how we know stuff (are we looking at a book on the floor or not?)
· marching the tune of your own drum
· the body electric
· leaves of grass
· the spiritual connection between all men and women
