Pre-AP English II - Final Exam Review Guide
The final exam is all multiple choice / matching items, and has two sections.
Section 1: Approximately 65 items / A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Section 2: Approximately 70 items / Literary Terms, Syntax, Grammar, and Vocabulary
What’s On The Exam?
What to Study:
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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Use the Acts I-V study guide questions to review the
play; be clear on “who’s who” and what happens!
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Study your background notes
Plot, characters of play
Background notes on the play
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Literary Terms / Devices
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Study your literary notes and examples
Be able to define, identify, and/or
choose the effect of various devices
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Imagery
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Simile
Approx. 20 m/c items
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Metaphor
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Personification
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Onomatopoeia
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Hyperbole
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Idioms
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Allusion
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Alliteration
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Assonance
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Consonance
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Understatement
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Litotes
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Antithesis
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Chiasmus
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Rhetoric
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Ethos
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Pathos
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Logos
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Synecdoche
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Elements of Syntax Analysis
Different elements to examine /
how syntax affects meaning
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Metonymy
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Apostrophe
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Anaphora
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Epistrophe
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Irony – dramatic, situational, verbal
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Paradox
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Pun
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Euphemism
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Hypophora
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Rhetorical questions
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Anadiplosis
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Asyndeton
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Polysyndeton
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Review terms from syntax notes
(re: sentences lengths, word order, sentence types)
Review Voice Lessons on Syntax
Approx. 10 m/c items
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Grammar
 Comma Splices / Fused Sentences
Review ChompChomp “Tips and Rules” for both tested areas
 Fragments
Approx. 10 m/c items
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Vocabulary – Greatest Hits
(From Analogy Challenges):
 salubrious
30 m/c items
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soporific
Context / analogies
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apathy
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monotony
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avaricious
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panacea
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ethereal
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suave
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reverent
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deft
(From Frankenstein):
 antipathy
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dank
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benevolence
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hapless
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fastidious
(From S-O Units 1-3):
 assuage
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hiatus
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provincial
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hackneyed
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unctuous
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aplomb
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intrinsic
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epitome
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surmise
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ameliorate
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vitriolic
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sangfroid
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tenuous
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abominate
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ascribe