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Spring Final Study Guide

English III Spring Final: TEST REVIEW


Dark Romantics:


1. When Romantic writers looked at the individual they saw beauty in nature, when Gothic writers looked at the individual what did they see?

2. Matching section: Know the important items, quotes, characters and events from each story. (i.e. black rose=? "Nevermore"=? broker=?)

3. "The Raven"
What does the bust of Pallus represent?

4. "The Masque of the Red Death"
Why is the appearance of the Red Death in the abbey described as ironic.

5. "The Fall of the House of Usher" What is the imagery of the house and why is it important? What is wrong with the people who live in the house? Are the characters sane?

6. "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment"
Why are Dr. Heidegger and his friends seen as pathetic by outsiders?
How do the participants act before, during and after the experiment?

Slavery/Civil War/Local Color:

Know what happens in the following stories:
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
"The Autobiography of Mark Twain"

Modernism

1. What happens in the Robert Frost poems,
"Out, Out--"
"Mending Wall,"

2.In Hemingway's "The End of Something," what are the characters doing at the beginning of the story, and what happens at the end?

3. Know the author, plot, setting and characters of the following stories and poems.

"Wagner Matinee"
"The Yellow Wallpaper"
"The Story of an Hour"
"Hope is the thing with feathers"
"I heard a fly buzz when I died"
"After great pain, a formal feeling comes"
"Richard Cory"
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

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