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Fall Semester 2011 – Sophomore English Review Sheet
Origins of the American Tradition (about 1500 – 1750)
Review introduction to the unit (p.18 – 27) in textbook.
Unit 1
A. The Native American Experience
The Oral Tradition, symbolism, theme
Myth
Creation Myths
“The World on Turtle’s Back”
“When Grizzlies Walked Upright”
“The Shawl” – Louise Erdrich
Be able to discuss the strengths/weaknesses of The Oral Tradition
as a method of preserving one’s heritage
Native American Values/Stereotypes regarding Native Americans
B. Exploration and the Early Settlers
Historical Narrative – 1st person point of view; 3rd person point of view
Primary source
Secondary source
Captain John Smith – The General History of Virginia
William Bradford – Of Plymouth Plantation
C. The Puritan Tradition
Anne Bradstreet – Notable Poet for 2 reasons; themes in her poetry
“To My Dear and Loving Husband”
“On the Burning of Our House”
Jonathon Edwards - sermon - “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
The Great Awakening – “born again”
Used Emotional Appeals
Key Terms – Unit 1
Figurative Language
Simile
Metaphor
Extended Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
Syntax
Archaic Vocabulary
D. The Crucible
Drama Terms – know the definitions
Tragedy
Comedy
Plot
Conflict
Stages of a plot:
Exposition (setting and background information)
Rising Action
Climax
Falling Action
Resolution
Protagonist
Antagonist
Also Know:
Characters in the play (Review your notes and quizzes)
Themes of the play
Puritan Beliefs
McCarthyism
Crucible Vocabulary –Study your vocab quizzes
E. TTEB – paragraph writing
Unit II. The Colonial Writers (Neoclassical Writers)
a. Patrick Henry’s- Speech to the Virginia Convention
Rhetorical Devices:
1. Antithesis
2. Repetition
3. Parallelism
4. Rhetorical Questions
b. Thomas Jefferson – The Declaration of Independence
Logical Arguments – deductive and inductive argumentation
Parts of an argument – claim, support, counterargument, logic, conclusion
c. Thomas Paine – The Crisis
Emotional Appeals
Ethical Appeals
Appeals to association
Appeals to authority
d. Phillis Wheatley and Abigail Adams – Letters
i. Diction
ii. Tone
iii. Letters as Primary Sources
e. Ben Franklin – Autobiography (13 moral virtues for perfection)
f.
Essay writing/thesis/introduction/conclusion writing
Unit III. American Romanticism (1800 – 1855)
Review introduction to the unit (p.296 – 305) in textbook.
1. The Early Romantics
a. Washington Irving “The Devil and Tom Walker”
i. satire
ii. imagery
b. William Cullen Bryant “Thanatopsis”
i. Blank Verse
ii. Iambic Pentameter
iii. Enjambment
2. The Transcendentalists – study all notes, handouts, quizzes
a. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-Reliance; Nature
aphorisms
b. Henry David Thoreau
Walden
3. The Anti-Transcendentalists – study all notes and handouts/quizzes
a. Edgar Allan Poe – “Masque of the Red Death”
allegory
b. Nathaniel Hawthorne
i. “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”
allegory
ii. The Scarlet Letter
c. Herman Melville – Moby Dick
4. The Fireside Poets
a. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – selected poems
i. Scansion, stanzas, rhyme scheme
b. Oliver Wendell Holmes – selected poems
i. Meter – monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, etc.
ii. foot, iamb, trochee,
c. John Greenleaf Whittier – selected poems
i. Mood, figurative language
d. James Russell Lowell – selected poems
i. Sound devices – alliteration, onomatopoeia, assonance
Form of the final
(Scantron 100 questions) plus 5 paragraph essay
Authors and their works – Know authors/what they wrote/a little biography/key ideas from each selection
Critical Reading Passage – questions to answer
Vocabulary
Historical events associated with each literary period
Early Settlers—including Native Americans, Puritans, Explorers
Colonial/Neoclassical Period
Romanticism (Early Romantics, Transcendentalists, Anti-Transcendentalists, Fireside Poets)