9th grade study guide for Monday's test
Ninth Grade Literature and Composition
Middle Eastern Literature Test
Study Guide
- Know what hyperbole is (p. 458, question 6 -- basically, a literary exaggeration -- "his feet were as big as a barge").
- Know what antithesis is (p. 450).
- Memorize the basic structure of a haiku (three line poem with 5 – 7—5 syllables per line).
- Memorize the structure of a ruba’i (in your book, p. 460).
Review the following texts. Be familiar with them, reread them if necessary.
- The Flood (from the Tanakh)
- “The Exordium” and “Daylight” from the Qur’an
- “The Second Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor” from The Thousand and One Nights
- Our selections from The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
- “The Counsels of the Bird” from The Masnavi
- “The Sound of Birds at Noon” by Dahlia Ravikovich
- “Elegy for a Woman of No Importance” by Nāzik al-Malā’ikah
- “The Diameter of the Bomb” by Yehuda Amichai
- “Butterflies” by Fawziyya Abu Khalid
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