FALL SEMESTER FINAL EXAM CONTENT OUTLINE FINAL EXAM

FALL SEMESTER FINAL EXAM CONTENT OUTLINE

FINAL EXAM • Part 1: Test (100 points) • Part 2: Socratic Seminar (Level 2) (50 points) – We will spend Monday and Tuesday preparing for both.

FOR THE FINAL EXAM: • “A Growing Nation” • Introduction to Romanticism – The beginnings of American literature – the big chart on American Romanticism – the “big ideas” questions – characteristics of romanticism – American literature timeline

The “BIG IDEAS” § § § When and in what ways did AMERICAN literature first begin to differentiate itself from European writing? How did early American literature begin to define what “American” means? Who were the first influential writers of American literature? § What did they write? § Why was their work important? § How is it an example of romanticism?

FOR THE FINAL EXAM: • Washington Irving – biography – The Legend of Sleepy Hollow • Vocabulary – vice – literati – pedagogue • Literary Concepts: – exposition

FOR THE FINAL EXAM: • Edgar Allan Poe – Biography film – “The Raven” – Reading Points for Sharper Insights – “The Tell-Tale Heart” • Vocabulary – tuberculosis – kindred – 40 vocab words from “The Raven” • Literary Concepts: – – – assonance alliteration internal rhyme stanza parody

FOR THE FINAL EXAM: • “New England Renaissance” • Transcendentalism – tenets of Transcendentalism • Ralph Waldo Emerson – Biography – Nature – “Self Reliance” • Vocabulary from the Study Guide to Transcendentalism and Ralph Waldo Emerson