1st Semester Exam Review

Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451.
Consider “who” “what” “when” “where” “why” and “how” to the following:
1. Characterize Clarisse
2. Montag’s visit to Faber’s
3. Firemen notified about books.
4. Fires at night
5. Captain Beatty’s visit to Montag’s
6. “Back story” of Fahrenheit 451
7. 3 elements missing from life according to Faber
8. Montag and Faber’s plan
9. Montag proves his willingness to carry out their plan.
10. Granger
11. Fire
12. Book people
13. Guy is caught
14. Book people’s mission
15. Society of Fahrenheit 451
16. Afterword, Coda
17. Censorship

Fahrenheit 451 Vocabulary.

ballistics
cadence
capillary
cowardice
dictum
erected
grotesque
imperceptibly
indecisive
juggernaut
limned
manifest
multifaceted
noncombustible
obscure
odious
parried
pedants
pratfall
proclivities
pulverized
pyre
ravenous
receptacle
retaliation
simultaneously
smoldering
stolid
tactile
verbiage

Ayn Rand’s Anthem
Format
point-of-view
society
Liberty, Equality
Transgressions of Preference
Collectivism
International
inventions
“Back story”
Equality’s curse
World Council of Scholars
Prometheus
Torture of Equality
Ego
fear
Equality and Liberty’s home
Palace of Corrective Detention?
Equality’s reflection
Equality is exiled.
evil word


Propaganda Techniques

Bandwagon
Euphemism
Fear
Glittering generalities
Name calling
Plain folk
Repetition
Testimonial
Transfer

Literary Terms:

allusion
Foreshadowing
Characterization: direct, indirect
Allusion
Irony: situational, verbal, dramatic
Imagery
Repetition
Archetype, motif
Folktale, and types of folktales
Origin Myth
Metaphor
Simile
Tone
Hubris (see Theseus packet)
Personification
Points of View: first, second, third omniscient, third limited


WORLD MYTHS AND FOLKTALES

Myths and folktales: similarities of
Examples of folktales. Types of folktales.
Who writes folktales?
Difference between myths and folktales
How were early myths and folktales kept alive?
Types of archetypes
Functions of myths
Why did myths begin?

“Osiris and Isis”
v Origin myth: origin of what?
v Osiris’ reign was like…
v What does Osiris give humans?
v Disadvantage of the story’s point of view
v Isis’ character traits
v Seth’s jealousy
v Seth’s trickery

You will also have 3 excerpts/stories to read and answer questions about. Questions include topics like:
v Answer reading comprehension questions (basic plot/storyline questions)
v Characters & Characterization
v Folktale characteristics
v Moral
v The Heroic Quest