Print a copy of each and put it in the corresponding section of your notebook. Make notes as we proceed through the unit. This will be your review guide for tests. The better your notes are, the more effective your studying will be.
Unit 1: The Anglo-Saxon Period
Unit 2: The Middle Ages
Study Guide (to be paired with your unit packet)
Unit 3: The Renaissance
Unit 4: The Restoration
Unit 5: The Romantic Period
Unit 6: The Victorian Era
Unit 7: The Modern Era
You may want to print these for yourself to keep in your notebook and make notes on as we progress through the semester.
alliteration
antithesis
apostrophe
assonance
connotation
consonance
denotation
diction
epithet
extended metaphor
figurative language
hyperbole
imagery
metaphor
meter
oxymoron
parallelism
personification
repetition
rhyme
simile
syntax
argument
bias
claim sentence or topic sentence
counterargument
fact
opinion
organizational structure (compare/contrast, least to most significant, most to least significant, chronological, etc.)
story-within-a-story
summary
thesis statement
topic sentence or claim sentence
vocabulary in context
allegory
allusion
antagonist
archetype (include all those we've covered)
author's purpose
characterization
conflict (man vs. man, man vs. self, man vs. nature, man vs. society, man vs. supernatural)
cultural point of view
framestory (framework story)
inference
irony (verbal, situational, and dramatic)
main idea/controlling idea
mood
motif
motivation
perception
poem analysis
point of view (first person; second person; third person--limited vs. omniscient)
protagonist
setting
shift (tone, mood, or focus)
symbolism
theme
tone
tragic flaw
tragic hero
tragic realization
Constructed Response format (4-5 lines, topic sentence, evidence, support, concluding sentence)
Inferencing
Poetry Analysis
epic hero
epic poetry
kenning
didactic literature
litotes
Old English
pilgrim
medieval
couplet
mortal sins
heavenly virtues
three estates
feudalism
bourgeoisie
guild
cleric
layman
squire
monk
friar
priory
prioress
parson
skipper
Middle English
Elizabethan
renaissance
humanism
pastoral
cavalier
metaphysical
aside
blank verse
climax
comedy
conceit
couplet
dialogue
exposition
falling action
iambic pentameter
inversion
malapropism
meter
monologue
prose v poetry
pun
quatrain
resolution/denouement
rhyme scheme
rising action
scene
soliloquy
sonnet
tragedy
Enlightenment
Parliament
Roundhead
satire
romanticism
lyric
novel
aestheticism
prudery
Dickensian