Myth Phenomenon Explained Key characters/events "The Earth on Turtle's Back"

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1 Name: Hunter Sneed Date Class Period 3 American Literature Semester I Exam Review Myth Phenomenon Explained Key characters/events "The Earth on Turtle's Back" How the earth was created How trees were scattered Why there are marks on the back on a turtle "When Grizzlies Walked Upright"How Indians where made How earth was created Family is important Muskrat Turtle Sky Gods wife Sky good falls from the skyland, animals save her. Dirt brought up from bottom of ocean by muskrat. Dirt on turtles back. Trees placed by wife Sky Spirit, daughter, bears, Indians Sky Spirit came down and made the earth. Sent daughter to tell wind spirit blow lighter. She got blown off the cliff. She was then brought into a family of bears and live with them. She had a children with a bear thus making the Indian. Sky Spirit came and took her back. "Why the Owl Never Sleeps at Night" "Coyote and Buffalo" "The Upper World" Pig tails curly Snakes no legs Roster/hen no feathers Ducks lost front legs Deer s short tails Owls nocturnal eyes Owls Twisting Heads Why there are no buffalo by the Colombia River. Respect the dead Don t be greedy Death is permanent Heaven Heaven is only for the dead God, Owl, Devil (Old Nick) God found something with all animals God ask owl to watch out for Satan at night because he was messing with the animals. Coyote, Buffalo, Bull Coyote and old bull fight. Coyote gives old bull new horns. Buffalo forgives. Old bull give coyote female buffalo to eat portion of. Cow will not eat. Coyote was gready and killed the cow for its liver. Coyote tries to get another cow from old bull. Bull refuses. Coyote returns his territory empty handed. Coyote, Spider, Human, Many Animals Magical Coyote creates a test to determine which animal is greatest. Animals attempt to climb to sky world. Coyote succeeds. Meets his ancestors who are spiders. Spiders send coyote back to each on silk thread. "The Tale of Great Rabbit" Great Medicine Makes a Beautiful County How wildcats lost their tail Wildcat, Great Rabbit Why they are called a bobcat Wildcat tricked by rabbit several times as Be careful of promises and vows made rabbit changes form. Swears by his tail that he will kill the rabbit. Live on hard conditions Creation of Native Americans Shows how tribes and culture are different. Red, Hairy, white People. Great Medicine. Hairy people moved south. Red People moved south but moved to another after flood. Returned to south after flood. Another flood returned North. Could control animals and thrive on bad conditions.

2 Complete the following statements pertaining to the various works we have considered in class. These statements should be finished with a series of phrases or sentences. Early Puritan Writing "Of Plymouth Plantation" Was written by... William Bradford Chronicled the events of the Pilgrims as they... Made their trip and landed in America Initial relations with the Native Americans were... Good, the Native American helped and supplied them with supplies when in need Life for the Pilgrims in the beginning was difficult because... They did not have the experience of living off the land. There was also a question of leadership. Life becomes increasingly better after the Pilgrims are introduced to Different diseases as well as the winter approaching The Pilgrims and the Native Americans together created a written... Peace agreement to establish rules between each other. "The General History of Virginia" John Smith writes his account in Third person but clearly portrays himself as... The main character and the hero Smith's opinion of the colony's leadership... He believed he was in charge but was questioned form time to time Many wanted to desert the colony because... How poorly the colony was doing. Many wanted to go home and also many were frustrated with the leadership aspect of the colony. Two of Smith's men die after... Were told to wait in the Canoe by Smith and did not listen Smith manages to escape the Native Americans by... Using the tour guide as a shield After Smith is captured, the Native Americans plan to... Club him to death Smith's life is spared by... The chief s daughter Smith and the Native Americans agree to... Work with each other on things and trade supplies "The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano" Equiano is initially captured by... African American Slaves who were working for other Slave collectors.

3 Some of the horrors Equiano experienced were... Being chained together, Depressing Moods, smelly under decks, diseases Equiano was beaten because... He was not eating to try and kill himself Some of his fellow captives try to escape by... Jumping off the side or purposely getting beaten to death. Equiano is allowed to remain on deck because... The under deck is disgusting and is filled with diseases Equiano displays his lack of knowledge and superstition when he???? For Equiano, the cruelest act of the slave traders was... The slave trade today... The slaves were afraid to leave the ship... Because they did not want to be separated from their loved ones "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" Edwards delivered his message with the hopes of Scaring all the people in the audience He reminded people that salvation was not dependent on... Being perfect to god and that only those who directly disobeyed him would be punished Edwards frightened his congregation by... The constant threat of them going to hell He compared God's wrath to... A spider being held over a fire Sinners are kept out of Hell only by... The hands of god? According to Edwards, salvation could only be obtained by At the end of the sermon, the tone changes... Not sure Define the following terms: Theocracy: a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or deity's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities.

4 Predestination: the action of God in foreordaining from eternity whatever comes to pass. Era of Independence From "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls What is the curlew? What is the speaker's message about death? From "A Psalm of Life" The living should... After our death, we can... From "Thanatopsis" The poem means... After we die, we... The speaker's view of death is... "Declaration of Independence" The basic rights of men are. Men have the right to abolish governments only when... Men should not overthrow a government for... The middle portion of the declaration states a list of... Jefferson's complaints were primarily against... Jefferson ends the declaration by... Persuasive Techniques Parallel Structure is Rhetorical Questions are designed to... Not be answered but to be thought about. (How many times must I tell you to clean your room?)

5 Restatement is... Same Idea, different words Repetition is... Same idea, same words Charged language is used to... Catch the reader s attention and to get a point across. The teacher requested that the students lower their voices. Revise using more charged words. The teacher demanded that the students diminish their voices. Emotional appeals work as a persuasive technique because they... Present ideas and images to illicit strong feelings (charged words) Intellectual Appeals use... "The Speech in the VA Convention" Emotional Appeals Logical Appeals Charged Words

6 Romanticism "Masque of the Red Death" The symptoms of the Red Death are... Sharp Pain, sudden dizziness, and profuse bleeding The Prince plans to escape death by... Enclosing himself within a castle The abbey is unusual because... It all of its rooms were aligned in such a way that you could not see all of them at one time? The only light comes from... A heavy tripod, with a blazing fire The clock causes.. The people to notice a new visitor at midnight The rooms are arranged... In a zig zag with all different colors and meaning The room in the west... Was a dark scarlet black The courtiers notice at midnight... The ringing of the clock He enrages the prince by... Entering his private place of safety The prince alone chases the mummer because... He wants to see what is going on with the visitor He plans to... Confront the visitor However, the prince... Is killed by the visitor The courtiers discover... The visitor has the red death The tale ends with... Everyone dying from the read death The point of Poe's story is... Life can come and go before you know it. This story relates to Poe's life since... He had lost many relatives and loved ones to tuberculosis

7 "Minister's Black Veil" Initially the parishioners guess Hooper is wearing the veil because... They thought he was hiding something behind it During the first sermon the church members... Starting talking and getting worried about the vial. The rumors started to spread Several rumors begin to circulate. They are... Stating that the veil is giving Mr. Hooper a ghostly figure The only thing that changes for Hooper is... The fact that he is wearing a black Veil Elizabeth refuses to marry Hooper because... He refuses to take off the vail and will not tell her the exact reason why he is wearing it. Hooper tells Elizabeth he wears the veil as... Long as he is still alive Hooper accuses the people around his deathbed of... Keeping secrets and wearing black veils themselves, hiding many things to themselves Even though Hooper is dead,.. They do not remove his veil. He is buried with it. The veil represented... The secrets kept and that everyone is hiding something. This relates to Hawthorne's life because... He joined a transcendentalist society. He distanced himself from the real society and did his own thing Poe Video Poe lives with the Allens because... He was an orphan child after his father left. His foster mother was kind, but Mr. Allen was... Not. He never support Poe and only gave him $100 to go to college with. Most of the women in his life... Did not stick around because he could not support them. Despite Poe s excellent writing he was always in poverty and could never support himself. Poe left college because... He could not afford it. His father stopped paying for it. Poe marries... His 13 year old cousin named Virginia Clemm

8 Poe was obsessed with... Death. All Poe s live he had grown up with loved ones dying all around him. He even proposed to a woman in a Not sure He is said to be the father of the... Modern Mystery Poe's death remains a mystery. Some speculate that he died... With alcohol poisoning after intoxicating himself at the bar one night. Transcendentalism stresses... "Nature" Emerson's views of nature were... "Self-Reliance" Some of the aphorisms found in this piece are... The Crucible Persons Accused Martha Corey Tituba Francis Nurse Elizabeth Proctor Rebecca Nurse Accusers/ Motivators Strange Books/ Giles Corey Abigail Thomas Putnam Abigail Mrs. Putnam Define static and dynamic when related to characterization. Select two dynamic characters and trace their development.

9 The Catcher in the Rye Character Description Impact on the Main Character 1. Phoebe Holden s sister. Loved by Holden She was everything to Holden. He always looked out for her and wanted the best for her. 2. Jane Holden s Best Girlfriend She was the only girl Holden really felt close to. 3. Allie Holden s Brother Was one of the reasons Holden is depressed. No one in the family can get over the death of him 4 Mr. Antolini Holden s Favorite Teacher. Creep Always looking out for Holden. Holden really looked up and respected him before his incident with him 5. Holden s Mother Mother of Holden Someone Holden would like to impress but never quite could. He would think about her before doing something he shouldn t have. 6. Holden s Father Father of Holden Lacked the personality of a father. Holden never seems to care much about him. The absence of him throughout his sons live contributes to why Holden is so crazy and out of control. Explain the significance of: Ducks: Holden is always asking about where the ducks go. I feel as if he can relate to them because they both aren t entirely sure where they are going. Green dress: Holden would not do anything with a prostitute because he felt bad about the dress she was wearing. He thought she looked innocent and that he was ruining her by using her. Red hat: Mitt: Holden s Bother Allie wrote poems all it when he played baseball so when he got bored he always had something to read. Holden would reference back to it from time to time in the book. Checkers in the back row: Whenever Holden would play Jane in checkers she used to always keep her checkers in the back row. She did it because she liked the way they looked in the back row. Carrousel: Phoebe used to love the carrousel. When Holden was younger him, DB, and Allie used to go and take Phoebe to it. They used be barely be able to get her off the thing. Catcher in the Rye: It tells about how Holden is trying to look out for people. He is trying to protect their innocence and save them from growing up so fast like he has. Research Writing Below reproduce a sample note and source card written in correct MLA format.

10 Write three rules for writing correct internal citations according to MLA.