Final Exam Review Sheet

The mid-term exam will cover the fiction, poetry, and drama units of the course. There will be 40
matching questions, 20 multiple choice questions, 5 poem identification questions, and two essay
questions (out of 10)

Section 1: Matching- Title to Author

There will be 15 matching questions asking you to match the text’s title to author. Any of the texts we
have read for class might be included.

Stories
“The Use of Force” by William Carlos Williams
“A&P” by John Updike
The Cask of the Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe
“The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin
“To Build a Fire” by Jack London
“Barn Burning” by William Faulkner
“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“Cathedral” by Raymond Carver
“The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka

Poems

“Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden

“My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke
“Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” by Adrienne Rich
“Out, Out—” by Robert Frost
“Musee Des Beaux Arts” by W. H. Auden
“The Dance” by William Carlos Williams
“One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop
“Dulce Et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen
“We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks

Plays

Trifles by Susan Glaspell

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

Section 2: Matching - Vocab/Terminology (25 questions)

There will be 25 matching questions asking you to match our course literary vocabulary terms to their
definitions. All the terms can be found under the Vocabulary tab on Blackboard (class main menu)

point of view imagery enjambment

protagonist personification caesura
unreliable narrator symbolism villanelle
setting lyric poem irony
character development stanza onomatopoeia
Gothic speaker allusion
Southern Gothic tone stage directions
Epiphany imagery memory play
Naturalism alliteration context

Section 3: Multiple Choice

There will be 20 multiple choice questions on the test that will be taken directly from the class quizzes,
so you should look over the questions to study. The questions cover basic plot elements and text
features.

Section 4: Poetry Identification Questions

There will be five poetry identification questions. You should be able to recognize groups of lines from
the poems we have read and discussed in class.

Section 5: Essay Questions

The final section is essay. You will be given a choice of ten essay questions. You are required to
write two essays. One of your choices must be from the first section and one must be from the
second section (the two sections will have five questions each). This is to ensure that you write
at least one essay about the drama unit of the course, and one from one of the other units.
Some essay questions will ask you to choose more than one text to write about. Your essays
should adhere to a conventional essay structure and completely answer the question. The more
details you include to support your ideas, the better you’ll do.

Your essays should:

 Be about 5-7 paragraphs

 Identify the title and author of each text you discuss (in the introduction and
conclusion of the essay)
 Have a core thesis statement and remain focused on supporting that thesis throughout
the essay
 Discuss details from the stories that you feel support your thesis (point to characters,
dialogue, literary devices, scenes, images, stage directions, specific moments, events,
symbols, etc)

Essay questions will cover the following topics:

 Narrator/speaker point of view

 Character development (what details are revealed about character and why/how;
character change, etc)
 The use of symbolism

 The role of setting

 Gender roles/expectations and the way they influence events

 The theme of free will/ determinism/ role of instinct (things that influence our lives both
within and outside of our control)

 The role of stage directions (plays)

 The use of tone and imagery (poetry)

 Irony

 The theme of free will/ determinism/ role of instinct (things that influence our lives both
within and outside of our control)

 Art as a theme (transformation through art, choice of artistic/ poetic subjects, art as
lasting/immortal, use of allusion)