Review Exam • Lord of the Flies • Paragraph Writing
Exam Format:
• 30 multiple choice (literary devices, Lord of the Flies, oral presentation unit, and sonnets)
• Short answer (sonnet)
• Paragraph (Lord of the Flies)
• Article writing
Literary Devices
Define and provide an example for the following literary devices and elements:
Exposition
Rising action
Climax
Falling action
Resolution
Conflict
Symbolism
Suspense
Mood
Theme
Irony
Foreshadowing
Allusion
Alliteration
Connotation
Denotation
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
Imagery
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
Imagery
Pun
Apostrophe
Meiosis
Consonance
Assonance
Couplet
Paradox
Iambic pentameter
Rhyme scheme
Rhyme
Allegory
Point of View
Character
Setting
Atmosphere
Mood
Write an argumentative paragraph on each of the topics below. Be sure to follow the correct SEEC paragraph structure.
1. Theme (loss of innocence, loss of communication, innate evil in humans, rituals, civilization vs
savagery, anarchy vs democracy, wisdom vs power, strength vs weakness, humanity vs nature,
etc.)
2. Character (their names, types, development, characteristics, relationships to others)
3. Symbols (types of allegories, the conch, Piggy’s glasses, signal fire, the Beast, the Lord of the Flies,
characters as symbols)
4. Literary Devices (symbolism, allegory, allusion, imagery, metaphor, etc.)
Review Exam • Lord of the Flies • Identify Elements
Instructions on exam: Use correct paragraph format: topic sentence / statement, body details, examples,
explanations, and a concluding sentence / statement.
What are the different types of paragraphs?
What is formal style?
Complete the following table:
Elements
Themes
Main Character(s)
Supporting Characters
Lord of the Flies
Review Important Symbols
Conflicts:
Setting
Irony
Exam • Lord of the Flies • Paragraph Writing
Review Allusions
Social Allegory
Religious Allegory
Moral Allegory
Exam • Lord of the Flies • Paragraph Writing
Review Exam • Lord of the Flies • Quotation Analysis
A. Read the quotation taken from Lord of the Flies.
‘I’m scared of him’ said Piggy, ‘and that why I know him. If you’re scared of someone you hate
him but you can’t stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he’s all right really, an’ then when you see
him again; it’s like asthma an’ you can’t breathe. I tell you what. He hates you too, Ralph –’
B. Using formal writing style, and with specific references to the quotation from the story you studied in class, explain how William Golding uses it to do two of the following:
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Evaluation:
Speaker
Reveal a literary device, AND
Develops a conflict, AND
reveal the character of the speaker, AND
reveal theme.
Content
Mechanics/ Style
Context
10 marks
5 marks
Type of Significance
Proof
Explanation
Review Exam • Media • Presentations
Media
Write a newspaper article for the images below. Be sure to follow the inverted pyramid style and answer
the W5H questions.
Also, review the media terminology.
Presentations
Answer the questions below.
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List four factors that help people listen well.
List four blocks to listening.
What are strategies to developing good listening skills?
What are the four purposes for listening?
What is the purpose of an outline? What are four methods to organize a presentation?
List and explain four introduction strategies.
List and explain four conclusion strategies.
List four examples of visual aids.
What are the three volumes of sound that can be used? Provide an example of when you would
use each one.
10. Provide an example of when you would use a fast or slow rate when delivering a presentation.
Review Exam • Poetry
1. List three characteristics of a sonnet.
2. Identify two types of sonnets and the rhyming scheme and organization for each.
3. Read the poem, “Reuben Bright” by Edwin Arlington Robinson, and answer the questions below.
Reuben Bright
Because he was a butcher and thereby
Did earn an honest living (and did right),
I would not have you think that Reuben Bright
Was any more a brute than you or I;
For when they told him that his wife must die,
He stared at them, and shook with grief and fright,
And cried like a great baby half that night,
And made the women cry to see him cry.
And after she was dead, and he had paid
The singers and the sexton and the rest,
He packed a lot of things that she had made
Most mournfully away in an old chest
Of hers, and put some chopped-up cedar boughs
In with them, and tore down the slaughter-house.
4. Summarize the story of this poem in two or three sentences.
Review Exam • Poetry
5. Describe Reuben Bright.
6. Why did Reuben destroy the slaughterhouse?
7. What makes Reuben an unusual subject for a sonnet?
8. Does this poem fit the sonnet form? Explain your answer.
9. Identify the rhyming scheme of this poem.
10. In what historical period did Shakespeare compose his plays?
Bonus Question: Who rules England in Shakespeare’s time?
Review Exam • Paragraphs • Literary Devices
Read the following passage from “The Blue Bead”:
Around him broad sparkling water travelled between cliffs and grass and forested hills. A
jungle track came out of scrub each side and down to the sun –whitened stepping stones one
which a little flycatcher was flirting and trilling along. The mugger crocodile, blackish brown
above and yellow white under, lay motionless, able to wait forever till food came. This antediluvian saurian – this prehistoric juggernaut, ferocious and formidable, a vast force in the water,
propelled by the unimaginable and irresistible power of the huge tail, lay lapped by ripples, a
throb in his throat. His mouth, running almost the whole length of his head, was closed and fixed
in that evil bony smile, and where the yellow underside came up to it, it was tinged with green.
1. The previous passage is an example of
A. Expository writing
B. Descriptive writing
C. Narrative writing
D. Argumentative writing
2. What literary device is employed in “that evil bony smile”?
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
D. allusion
3. What literary device is employed in “blackish brown”?
A. Allusion
B. Alliteration
C. Simile
D. metaphor