Thursday, December 13, 2012

Pre-AP English II: Pearl Chapter 4-6 Test Preview

Tomorrow, you will have a test on Chapters 4-6 of John Steinbeck's The Pearl. Be prepared.

If you do not already know what the following literary terms, mood/tone words, and vocabulary words mean, please take this opportunity to (re)familiarize yourself with them.

Literary devices/techniques
  • Anaphora
  • Antithesis
  • Foreshadowing
  • Hyperbole
  • Irony
  • Oxymoron
  • Paradox
  • Personification
  • Symbolism

Mood/Tone words
  • Apprehensive
  • Desperate
  • Disdainful
  • Jovial
  • Mournful
  • Ominous
  • Reflective
  • Resigned
  • Reverent

Vocabulary words
  • Condemnation
  • Cunning
  • Livelihood
  • Persevere
  • Prevalent
  • Swindled

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