1. First Semester Final exam review
English 12
First Semester
Final exam review

2. MLA Formatting Concepts Page Formatting
Heading includes:
Heading is:
Your name
Instructor name
Course
Date
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Double spaced
NO EXTRA SPACES

3. Page Formatting Title Paginate Size 12 Same font and size Upper right
Can use bold
Paginate
Upper right
Last name and page #
Countess 1
Title of references on last page
Works Cited

4. Citations/Documentation
Basic Citation
Period AFTER the citation/parenthetical reference
Last name & page #
Just a space between
(Smith 45).
Title (with correct label/punctuation)
(“Title”) for short works--articles, single pages
(Title) for longer works--plays, books, television shows, entire Web sites)

5. Citations/Documentation
Block Quotes
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Period BEFORE the citation

6. Works Cited Page Double space Align left
Reverse/Hanging indent
NO EXTRA SPACE between sources
Alphabetical order
By author LAST NAME
By Title
NOT “A”, “An”, or “The”

7. Night Author: Elie Wiesel Point of view: First Person
Setting = location:
Sighet, Romania;
Aushwitz-Birkenau camp in Poland
Buna & Gleiwitz subcamps in Poland;
Buchenwald camp in Germany

8. Night Setting = time period: 1941; Spring 1944-April 11, 1945
Purpose of writing: to bear witness (p.xv)
Type of writing (genre): Memoir

9. Terms to Know Annihilation: total destruction; extinction
Genocide: the systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group.
the Holocaust: the state-sponsored systematic persecution of European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between
Prejudice: an irrational hatred of a person, group, or race based on preconceived opinion or judgment.

10. Character Identification
Eliezer Wiesel: main character/narrator
Tzipora: Elie’s youngest sister; sent to death with mother
Mr. (Shlomo) Wiesel: Elie’s father; shopkeeper
Mme. Schachter: lost her mind & screamed about fire
Dr. Mengele: notorious Nazi doctor (Angel of Death)

11. Character Identification
Akiba Drumer: lost his faith; when he died others forgot to say Kaddish for him
Juliek: played violin the night he dies
Idek: hot-tempered Kapo who beat Elie in the warehouse & whipped him
Rabbi Eliahou: father whose son deserted him
Meir Katz: strong man who saved Elie from being strangled

12. Character Identification
Adolf Hitler: Nazi leader. Jews of Sighet doubted he would really exterminate Jews. Man at infirmary praised him.
Moishe the Beadle: tries to warn the Jews of Sighet about the impending danger
The pipel: put to death for working for a man who stashed weapons and planned a revolution.
French girl: comforted Elie after he received a beating from Idek