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American Lit Final Exam Study Guide

American Literature

Final Exam Review

Exam at 10:00 am on 12/18/06

You’ll have a choice of how much the first two sections are worth:

Quotations 25%/ Grammar 25%

Quotations 30%/ Grammar 20%

Texts we’ve covered (quote id’s – obvious quotes, you give source, speaker (for works of fiction), and significance):

• “A Worn Path”
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Essays by our “patriots and freedom fighters”: Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King
• Transcendentalism: essays and poetry by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau
• Poems by Walt Whitman
• Poems by Langston Hughes

Grammar covered [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 (crossword and short answer) (25%):

From “A Worn Path”:

Enduring Solemn Solitary Obstinate Furrow Lolling Lye Pullet Phoenix Cur Dainty

From patriots/freedom fighters:

Hypocracy Ethos Tyranny Perfidy Avarice

Other concepts to know:

Harlem Renaissance Transcendentalism

The Historical Perspective (matching and some short answer) (25%):

Have a sense of when each writer lived and was working by century and in relation to major American events such as the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the Civil Rights Movement. Have a sense of who was writing about freedom from slavery and who was writing about equality under the law and what the difference is.

posted by Jenny Caudle Crisp @ 11:44 AM