Semester Exam Study Guide

Please review the following in order to do well on the semester exam:

Short Story: Lit book—“A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner

Nonfiction: Lit book—Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech by William Faulkner

Night (Novel)

Short Story: Lit Book—“Dust Tracks on a Road” by Zora Neale Hurston

Nonfiction: Lit book—-“One Day, Now Broken in Two” by Anna Quindlan (The article about 9/11 attacks)

The Great Gatsby (novel)

Nonfiction: Lit Book—Martin Luther King Jr. “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”

Nonfiction: Lit Book—JFK “Inaugural Address”

Online search—Poem “Your World” by Georgia Johnson

Online search: Poem “If We Must Die” by Claude McKay

Short Story: Lit book—“The Life You Save May Be Your Own” by Flannery O’Connor

Know these terms and how to use them: connotation, tone, Point of View, inference, semicolon, comma, parallelism, allusion, simile, metaphor, grotesque character, MLA rules