Test-Taking Strategies
Titles and Authors
Literary Elements
Literary Elements 2
The Literature
100
The first thing you look at on every task of the Regents exam
What are the directions?
100
The author of THINGS THEY CARRIED
Who is Tim O'Brien?
100
The literary element used very heavily in OF MICE AND MEN and SHANE, which gives the reader hints about things that will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
100
This literary element is often used in poetry to appeal to the reader's senses.
What is imagery?
100
This story takes place during The Depression, and is about two characters relying on each other in hopes of achieving their life's dream. (Give the title and author.)
What is OF MICE AND MEN by John Steinbeck?
200
On this part of the test, you will hear a passage 3 times. The first time you will listen and take notes. The second time, you will fill in missing information in your notes. The third time, you will listen for answers to any question that you do not yet know how to answer.
What is the Part 1 Listening section?
200
The author of HIROSHIMA
Who is John Hersey?
200
Common literary elements that can be used with most stories because in most stories the author helps the reader to "know" one, or more characters; in most stories there is some kind of message about life; and in most stories there are struggles faced by one, or more characters. Name all three (3) literary elements in the correct order.
What are characterization, theme, and conflict?
200
This literary device is often used to give the reader a better sense of interaction between characters because it shows what characters say to each other.
What is dialogue?
200
This historical drama tells both a cautionary tale against getting caught up in the hysteria of life. It tells both of the Salem Witch Trials and McCarthyism in the 1950's. (Give the title and author.)
What is THE CRUCIBLE by Arthur Miller?
300
This is the minimum number of sentences required for #26 and a description of those sentences.
What is 6 sentences? The first sentence is the controlling idea, or an important message about life. The second sentence tells how the first passage relates to the controlling idea. The third sentence provides a specific example of this. Sentence four and five describe how passage 2 relates and give an example. The last sentence summarizes and shows the importance of the message.
300
The author of OF MICE AND MEN
Who is John Steinbeck?
300
An influential literary element of THE CRUCIBLE, and "A Rose for Emily, because if these stories happened in another time, or place, the story would not have the same meaning.
What is setting?
300
This literary device is often used in poetry to give the reader a visual or to help the reader understand the feeling of a poem through a concrete representation of that feeling.
What is structure?
300
This journalistic narrative tells of 6 survivors of the bombing of Hiroshima by the United States in WWII. (Give the title and author.)
What is HIROSHIMA by John Hersey.
400
This is the number of minimum sentences in an answer for question #27 and a description of those sentences.
What is 9 sentences (10 if using theme)? Sentence 1 - author/passage uses some literary element to develop passage. Sentence 2 - define literary element and give specific theme if using. Sentence 3 - 8 - 3 examples and 3 explanation - example, explain, example, explain, example, explain. Last sentence - summary and importance.
400
The author of THE CRUCIBLE
Who is Arthur Miller?
400
Two types of this literary device, situational and dramatic, are used to develop both THE CRUCIBLE and "Story of an Hour".
What is irony?
400
This is an example of a theme from one of the pieces of literature that we read this year. (Tell the piece of literature, and the theme.)
Answers will vary.
400
This short story is a metaphor for the South's unwillingness to change after the period of Reconstruction in the South. It is a story of misperceptions and violence. (Give the title and author.)
What is "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner?
500
The question you should write down for yourself before you begin reading the controlling idea passages; this question will help you write your controlling idea
Why is ____________ important? or What message do these passages give about ________________?
500
The authors of "A Rose for Emily" and "Story of an Hour"
Who are William Faulkner and Kate Chopin?
500
This literary element is used in THE CRUCIBLE because the story compares the Salem Witch Trials to McCarthyism in the 1950s. It is also used in "Sweetheart of Song Tra Bong" (THINGS THEY CARRIED) to compare Mary Ann to all soldiers in Vietnam. In "A Rose for Emily" Miss Emily is being compared to the Post-Reconstruction South.
What is metaphor?
500
In HIROSHIMA, John Hersey uses this literary technique so that his feelings about the bomb dropped on Hiroshima is not part of the story. Rather, he allows the reader to learn about the bombing through the perspective of his 6 survivors.
What is objective point of view?
500
This story takes place in the course of one hour. A woman learns of her husband's death and is faced with a feeling of freedom. It speaks to the restrictions that woman faced in their life in the late 1800's to early 1900's. (Give the title and author.)
What is "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin.
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