Summative Test Details

Summative Test: Thursday, September 20th

Format:

1. Literary Terms: Define in a complete sentence

2. Significant Details: Use specific details from essays/Gatsby to identify significance in complete sentences

3. Short Answer: Answer plot questions regarding essays and Gatsby

Topics:

1. Literary Terms:

1. plot
2. setting
3. speaker/narrator
4. audience
5. characterization: direct & indirect
6. flat character
7. round character
8. personification
9. point-of-view
10. motif
11. symbol
12. irony: verbal, situational, dramatic
13.  theme
14. mood
15. diction
16. tone
17. conflict
18. epiphany
19. foreshadowing
20. imagery
21. paradox

2. Essays (from The Writers Presence):

1. Cofer, “Silent Dancing” (68)
2. Carver, “My Father’s Life” (60)
3. Tan, “Mother Tongue” (232)
4. Sedaris, “Me Talk Pretty One Day” (212)
5. Staples, “Just Walk On By” (217)
6. Kothari, “If You Are What You Eat...” (132)
7. Mengestu, “Home At Last” (170)

3. The Great Gatsby (Ch. 1-6)