1. 12 CP English 2016 Semester B Exam Hack
Final Review
12 CP English
2016 Semester B Exam
Hack

2. Literary Concepts and Definitions:
Night:
Memoir: a historical account written from personal experience
Autobiography: a written account of an entire person’s life
Understand that the difference is a memoir is written about an event in the person’s life, such as Elie’s depiction of the Holocaust, whereas an autobiography is about the entire life a person

3. Literary Concepts and Definitions:
Flash-forward: a scene that takes the narrative forward in time from the current time in a piece of literature
Allusion: a figure of speech that makes a reference to a place, person or something that happened
Example: “an allusion to Shakespeare”
Hyperbole: exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally
Example: “This book weighs a ton”
Irony: a term for situations and for written and spoken observations that suggest some sort of incongruity (discrepancy) between appearance and reality. 
Oxymoron: a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
Bittersweet
Seriously funny

4. Literary Concepts and Definitions:
Characterization
Indirect- when the narrator shows something about the character through the character’s actions, speech, or things other character’s say.
Direct- when the narrator specifically tells us what the character is like
Example: help/explain-difference-between-direct-indirect

5. Literary Concepts and Definitions:
Mood and Tone
Mood- the emotional feeling that a work of literature produces in the READER
Tone- the attitude or approach that the author takes toward the work’s central theme or subject
What’s the difference?
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6. Literary Concepts and Definitions:
Hamlet and Gilgamesh:
Tragedy: a literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow, especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw, moral weakness, or inability to cope with unfavorable circumstance
Tragic Hero: the main character in a tragedy who is destined for downfall, suffering or defeat and has a fatal flaw
Elements of a tragic hero: .htm
Tragic Flaw: a literary term that refers to a personality trait of a main character that leads to his or her downfall.

7. Elements of Plot

8. Elements of Plot (cont’d)

9. Dramatic Elements
Aside: words spoken by an actor to the audience that the other characters do not hear; a low remark made that is only intended for the audience to hear
Dialogue: conversation spoken between 2 or more characters within a drama
Monologue: a long speech given by one character where that character often forgets that others are even there
Diction: writer’s choice of words
Soliloquy: a long speech given by one character while they are alone on stage

10. Literary Concepts and Definitions:
Context
Anything beyond the specific words of a literary work that may be relevant to understanding the meaning. Contexts may be economic, social, cultural, historical, literary, biographical
Literal vs. Figurative
docs/LiteralFigurativeHandout.pdf
Implicit vs. Explicit
vs-explicit

11. Eurocentric/Imperialistic
Eurocentric- focusing on European culture or history to the exclusion of a wider view of the world; implicitly regarding European culture as preeminent.
Imperialistic- the policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries, or of acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies.
Okonkwo and his tribe were Anti-Imperialistic and Non- Eurocentric

12. Proverb
a short pithy saying in general use, stating a general truth or piece of advice.
Examples from TFA
If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
When the moon is shining, the cripple becomes hungry for a walk.
A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing.

14. Gilgamesh Poetic Techniques employed in Gilgamesh:
Assonance: the repetition of similar stressed vowel sounds within words in nearby sentences or words.
Example: the birds were hooting in the woodland
Consonance: consonant sound is repeated in words that are in close proximity
Example: All’s well that ends well.
Alliteration: the repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words in a sentence or a line of poetry.
Example: thundering thoughts wing wildly

15. Gilgamesh and Poetic Technique cont’d

16. The Things They Carried
Verisimilitude
Definition: the quality in a story that would cause a reader to either believe that the story is true or could be true because it has the semblance of reality.
The genre of TTTC… means being believable. Hard to distinguish between what’s true and what’s fiction
Abstraction: a term that is applied to ideas that are philosophical and emotional, not concrete or tangible, yet the idea comes from experience.
Examples: truth, liberty, freedom, courage, love

17. Essay– 50% of total final exam grade
Theme, character, or elements of tragedy as they relate to
1. Hamlet
2. The Things They Carried
3. Gilgamesh
How to prepare??
Review the major themes and characters of the previous titles
Review elements of tragedy on slide #6