English 9 Final Exam Review Guide
Format: Scantron--multiple choice and matching
Total Points: 100 scantron questions & 1/7 of semester grade
Subject: Romeo and Juliet, drama & literary terms, MLA formatting & documentation
Dates of Exam: Mon. 24 May (per. 7); Tues. 25 May (per. 8); Thurs. 27 May (per. 3 & 4)
On-line Review: http://myccs.ccs.k12.in.us/teachers/esalona1/RomeoandJuliet
http://www.quia.com/pages/esalona/page2
Romeo and Juliet Review (75% of exam)
Review all of the questions on your R&J study guide
Study the notes on the Romeo and Juliet page on my website. Hint: I
wrote the notes; I wrote the exam. You can view the PowerPoints from my
website even if you do not have PowerPoint on your computer.
Play R&J games & take practice quizzes: Available from my website.
Make sure you know the identity & importance of all of the characters
Review the major events in each act
You will have to identify speakers of important quotes. Play Quia games
and take Quia quizzes from my website.
Review your notes on the background of Shakespeare and the
Globe Theater.
Review Shakespearean drama terms such as: tragedy, comedy,
history, aside, monologue, soliloquy, dramatic irony, and pun.
Be able to apply your knowledge of literary terms and figurative language
to lines from the play. Review: pun, verbal and dramatic irony, simile,
metaphor, personification, oxymoron and hyperbole.
Be able to recognize and apply parts of a tragedy plot in Romeo and
Juliet: exposition, exciting/inciting force, rising action, climax, falling
action, moment of final suspense, catastrophe, and resolution.
MLA Documentation & Works Cited Review (25% of exam)
Review MLA formatting: the rules for a standard paper or essay
Review the rules for MLA parenthetical documentation
Review the rules for MLA works cited pages
You will have the works cited resource sheet available to you on the final
On the exam you will need to alphabetize a works cited page based on
the source information given to you; decide the correct parenthetical
citation/ documentation based on a works cited entry; choose the best
paraphrases and summaries of passages from two articles provided to
you; choose the correct formatting of a direct quotation with
parenthetical documentation; answer comprehension questions based
on the two articles provided.
See back for more specific details on research.
Ms. Erin Salona
May 2010
English 9 Final Exam Review Guide
Research Portion of Final
1. What is the proper heading for a research paper or essay?
2. If you are given a list of sources on a Works Cited page, how do you
alphabetize them?
a. What if some of the sources do not have authors? How do you
alphabetize them?
b. Please go to the research paper link on my website to find specific
information and examples.
3. You will have a Works Cited reference sheet to use on your final. Be
prepared to choose the correct works cited entry (from 4 choices) for:
a. A book with one author.
b. A book with two authors.
c. A book with no author.
d. A website with no author.
e. A website with one or more authors.
f. An online CHS database (Opposing Viewpoints, Gale) with no
author
g. An online CHS database with one or more authors
h. An online general encyclopedia (World Book Online) with no
author, an author, or more than one author
4. Review how to create a parenthetical citation for sources with an author,
with more than one author and with no author. Make sure you know
where the period and other punctuation goes.
Ex: Gomez, Dina Spector. "Putting the shame back in student cheating." Education Digest.
01 Dec. 2001. 15. eLibrary. n.d. Web. Carmel High School Media Center, IN.
5
Jan. 2010.
*Parenthetical Citation: “Words, words words words” (Gomez).
Ex. “Woman gives birth to identical invitro triplets.” CNN.com. Cable News Network,
5 Mar. 2008. Web. 5 Jan. 2010.
*Parenthetical Citation: “Words, words words words” (“Woman”).
*If there are two authors, use both authors’ last names.
Ex: (Brown and Greene 54).
5. Articles have _______________________ around the title.
6. Book titles, major sources, website titles, and titles of databases or
websites are ________________________.
7. Works cited entries are __________________- spaced throughout.
8. How do you format a date on a works cited entry?
a. How would you format October 13, 2006?
b. How would you format May 17, 2010?
9. When do you use parenthetical citations?
10. How do you avoid plagiarism?
11. What is paraphrasing?
12. What is a direct quotation?
Ms. Erin Salona
May 2010