Ms. Heredia 12ENG Name: ___________________

British Literature:

S1 (Q1 and Q2) Review Guide

Identification Questions

Topics: Vocabulary (Units 1-5) General Content (Q1 to Q2) Question Style: Multiple-choice

Short Answer Questions

Topic: Hamlet: Emphasis on Acts 3-5 (Q2 only) Question Style: 2 Paragraph Responses

Long Answer Question

Topic: Beowulf, Dr. Faustus, and Hamlet (Q1 and Q2) Question Style: Mini Essay Response

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Identification Questions (Multiple Choice)

VOCABULARY WORKSHOP

For this section, make sure to review your Unit 1-5 definitions, exercises, and past quizzes. On the exam there will be a

word bank containing vocabulary from Units 1-5 . NEED EXTRA PRACTICE for Units 1-3? Complete the Review on p 42-44

UNIT 1 UNIT 2 UNIT 3 UNIT 4

acquisitive, arrogate, banal, belabor,

carping, coherent, congeal, emulate,

encomium, eschew, germane,

insatiable, intransigent, invidious,

largess, reconnaissance, substantiate,

taciturn, temporize, tenable

accost, animadversion, avid, brackish,

celerity, devious, gambit, halcyon,

histrionic, incendiary, maelstrom,

myopic, overt, pejorative, propriety,

sacrilege, summarily, suppliant,

talisman, undulate

cavort, credence, decry, dissemble,

distraught, eulogy, evince, exhume,

feckless, murky, nefarious, piquant,

primordial, propinquity, substantive,

unwonted, Utopian, verbiage,

verdant, viscous

atrophy, bastion, concord,

consummate, disarray, exigency,

flotsam, frenetic, glean, grouse,

incarcerate, incumbent, jocular,

ludicrous, mordant, nettle, pecuniary,

pusillanimous, recumbent, stratagem

GENERAL CONTENT What to review:

Quiz on Beowulf & Anglo-Saxons (E.g. Christian vs. Germanic Pagan cultural values) Quiz on Faustus & Renaissance (E.g. Renaissance man, Faustian bargain, Calvinism & pre-destination) Quiz on Hamlet Acts 1 & 2 Hamlet Discussion Qs and notes re: Acts 3-5

Short Answer Questions (Paragraph Response)

FORMAT ON THE EXAM WILL LOOK SOMETHING LIKE THIS:

Short Answer Questions. In formal paragraphs, provide responses to TWO of the following prompts:

1. [Prompt/instruction ONE]

2. [Prompt/instruction TWO] etc.

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. . . PROMPT TOPICS / FOCUS:

For this section you will be asked to choose TWO prompts. All prompts will ask you to center you support around

ACTS 3-5 of Hamlet. Though prompts may vary, the following are examples of topics you should consider for review:

Scenes that are open to debate/interpretation (e.g. the nature of Ophelia´s death)

The extent to which Hamlet is or is not a revenge play

The extent to which Hamlet is or is not a tragic hero

The extent to which Hamlet follows and/or deviates from the conventions of other forms of tragedy (i.e. the classic Greek tragedy, the De Casibus tragedy)

Long Answer Question

FORMAT ON THE EXAM WILL LOOK SOMETHING LIKE THIS:

Note: See appendix for more grading details

Reminder: When writing about literature avoid going off topic: keep your analysis literary.

In formal essay, provide a response to ONE of the following prompts:

1. [Prompt/instruction ONE]

2. [Prompt/instruction TWO] etc.

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PROMPT TOPICS / FOCUS:

Regardless of the wording for this section´s prompts, the prompts themselves will ask you to consider a range of

quotes or topics (such as the following) in relation to two or more of the works explored this semester.

Of the three major literary works we have studied this semester, explain how two or more of these works reveal the contradictory nature and discrepancy between culture values, common practice and religious belief.

Formal Essay Question. Content:

understanding of author(s)´s style & ideas

Claim/Support:

clarity and quality of analysis and evidence

Language/Mechanics: clarity and quality

of writing