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3rd period Euro/World Lit. Final Exam study guide

European and World Literature

Final Exam Review

Period 3

This test is at 8:00 am on Tuesdayday, 12/19/06

Come on time; you'll need the full period.

Quotation id’s (50%) – I’ll give you fairly obvious quotes, you give source, speaker (for plays and works of fiction) and significance (at least 2 sentences on significance):

• “The Landlady”
• Grendel
• “The Miller’s Tale”
• First 18 lines of “The General Prologue” to The Canterbury Tales in Middle English
• As You Like It
• John Donne’s “Meditation XVII”

Grammar (25%) [here's a good grammar resource] (short answer questions where you fix sentences with errors/ explain errors):

1) Independent/ dependant clauses

2) Comma splices and run-ons

3) Fragments

4) Pronoun agreement

5) The Five Comma Rules – use commas:

a) Between items in a series, including coordinate adjectives

b) Between independent clauses connected by a coordinating conjunction

c) Before and after nonrestrictive phrases and clauses

d) After introductory phrases and clauses

e) For clarity (use this sparingly)

Vocabulary/concepts covered (25%) (crossword and short answer):

From “The Landlady”:

Trilby Congenial Rapacious Kippers Dotty Queer Emanate Blemish Peculiar Lodging Alas Swamped Extraordinarily Dithering Tantalizing Brisk Swanky

From “The Miller’s Tale”:

Cuckold Swyve The Black Death Fabliau Reverdie

posted by Jenny Caudle Crisp @ 11:57 AM