Exam Review
English 11C--Early Bird
January 2005

       
Exam Date:  Monday, January 24, 2004    7:00 a.m.

What to bring to the exam:
Several #2 pencils, loose leaf paper, pens of BLACK or BLUE ink, a well-rested mind.


Specific Literary Works the Exam Covers:

Literary Periods--know characteristics from each literary period
  
    Native Americans
    Puritans

    the Age of Reason
    Romanticism
    Transcendentalism
    Anti-Transcendentalism

Specific Works of Literature:
THE PURITANS
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
Of Plymouth Plantation
A Narrative of the Captivity
"Upon the Burning of Our House"
History of the Dividing Line
The Scarlet Letter

THE AGE OF REASON
Ben Franklin's Autobiography
"Speech in the Virginia Convention"
The Declaration of Independence
The Crisis, No. 1

ROMANTICISM
"Rip Van Winkle"
"Thanatopsis"
"The Ropewalk"
"The Cross of Snow"
"The Chambered Nautilus"
"Old Ironsides"

TRANSCENDENTALISM
Nature
"Self-Reliance"
"Resistance to Civil Government"
Walden

ANTI-TRANSCENDENTALISM
"The Raven"
"The Black Cat"
"The Minister's Black Veil"
"Moby Dick"

Specific Works of Literature

    The Crucible
    The Catcher in the Rye
    To Kill a Mockingbird

Discussion Question:  Be prepared to write an essay based on three of the following works:
The Catcher in the Rye
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Crucible
"Resistance to Civil Government"
The Scarlet Letter
"The Speech to the Virginia Convention"