English May Exam
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Stupor | Suspension or great diminution of sensibility |
| Indictment | Any charge, accusation, serious criticism, or cause for blame |
| Conspicuous | Easily seen or noticed |
| Sullen | Showing irritation or ill humor by gloomy silence or reserve |
| Defiance | Daring or bold resistance to authority or to any opposing force |
| Graft | Acquisition of money, gain, or advantage by dishonest, unfair, or illegal means |
| Vigorous | Strong, active, robust |
| Anguish | Excruciating or acute distress, suffering, or pain |
| Exasperate | To irritate or provoke to a high degree; annoy extremely |
| Furtive | Secretive, sly, shifty |
| Futile | Serving no useful purpose; completely ineffective |
| Profound | Of deep meaning, of great significance |
| Indignant | Feeling, characterized by, or expressing strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base |
| Suppress | To keep in or repress |
| Incredulity | Inability or unwillingness to believe |
| Insinuate | To suggest or hint slyly |
| Beseech | To implore urgently, to beg eagerly for |
| Plaintive | Expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful |
| Tentative | Unsure, uncertain, hesitant |
| Emphatic | Uttered or to be uttered with emphasis; strongly expressive |
| Rhetorical Question | Question that does not require a reply |
| Antithesis | Device in which contrasting ideas are expressed in a grammatically balanced statement |
| Parallelism | Repetition of a grammatical pattern to express similar/related ideas within a sentence |
| Asyndeton | Deliberate omission of conjunctions in a series |
| Repetition | Use of the same word or phase more than once for emphasis |
| Allusions | References to historical, literary, or cultural details from outside that text |
| What are the three parts of a thesis statement? | Topic, Claim, and Reason(s) |
| What are two punctuation symbols that can be used in integrating quotations? | Commas or colons |
| What must precede a colon when used in integrating quotations? | An independent clause |
| What can never follow the word that when integrating quotations? | A comma |
| What punctuation symbol is never used when integrating quotations? | Semi-colon |
| When is punctuation included within quotation marks? | If it is an exclamation point or question mark. Period always goes after parentheses. |
| What is an ellipsis? | Three periods in a row that represent that a part of the quotation has been removed |
| "See Colonel Sartoris. I have no taxes in Jefferson." | A Rose For Emily Ms. Emily-->Sheriff Ms. Emily's refusal to let go of past |
| "In the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair." | A Rose for Emily Narrator-->Townspeople searching Ms. Emily's house Ms. Emily's refusal to let go of past |
| "A good man is hard to find. Everything is getting terrible. I remember the day you could go off and leave your screen door unlatched. Not no more." | A Good Man is Hard to Find Red Sammy-->Grandmother Good people are hard to find |
| "You shouldn't call yourself The Misfit because I know you're a good man at heart. I can just look at you and tell." | A Good Man is Hard to Find Grandmother-->The Misfit Grandmother judging people on appearance |
| "I found out the crime don't matter. You can do one thing or you can do another, kill a man or take a tire off his car, because sooner or later, you're going to forget what it was you done and just be punished for it." | A Good Man is Hard to Find The Misfit-->Grandmother Misfit giving up on life and being a good man, says it is pointless |
| "It's nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you got left the best way you can--by killing somebody or burning down his house or doing some other meanness to him. No pleasure but meanness." | A Good Man is Hard to Find The Misfit-->Grandmother Misfit giving up on life, says only way to get pleasure is being mean, not being good |
| "Why you're one of my babies! You're one of my own children!" | A Good Man is Hard to Find Grandmother-->The Misfit Grandmother is finally caring about someone else, not being selfish, relating to him on personal level and not thinking of herself as superior |
| "It's no real pleasure in life." | A Good Man is Hard to Find The Misfit-->Bobby Lee Misfit decides that even being mean isn't pleasure in life, so there must be no pleasure in life |
| "And I thought, Why don't I walk off? Walk to the highway, hitch a ride. I sure Jesus didn't want to go back in that house. And yet--How can I explain this? It was like I wasn't part of it. More as though I was reading a story. And I had to know what was going to happen. The end. So I went back upstairs." | In Cold Blood Perry Smith-->Detective Perry doubting whether or not he should continue with operation, reveals possible inner morality, but it ends up being overcome by curiousity |
| "I'm gonna bust that little girl" "Uh-huh. But you'll have to kill me first." | In Cold Blood Dick Hickock and Perry Smith Reveals Perry Smith's inner morality and Hickock's inner evil |
| "Only Perry Smith, who owned neither jacket nor tie, seemed sartorially misplaced. Wearing an open-necked shirt (borrowed from Mr. Meier) and blue jeans rolled up at the cuffs, he looked as lonely and inappropriate as a seagull in a wheat field." | In Cold Blood Narrator about Perry Smith on Trial Day Reveals Perry Smith being different from the rest--bad childhood and upbringing, unfair disadvantages led to his current pathetic situation |
| "Maybe I drink too much, but I sure as hell never killed four people in cold blood." | In Cold Blood Parr-->Green (newsmen) Shows meaning of in cold blood, heartless |
| "I think it's a helluva thing to take a life in this manner. I don't believe in capital punishment, morally or legally. Maybe I had something to contribute, something--it would be meaningless to apologize for what I did. Even inappropriate. But I do. I apologize." | In Cold Blood Perry Smith-->People present at hanging Shows views on capital punishment |
| "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." | Letter from Birmingham Jail MLK Shows view on injustice being nationwide, and people who obey unjust laws affect everyone |
| "There are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws." | Letter from Birmingham Jail MLK Shares Thoreau's views on Civil Disobedience to unjust laws, Elie Wiesel quote about the man in the window being the worst of all for watching unjust things happen and doing nothing about it |
| "Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear-drench communities, and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty." | Letter from Birmingham Jail MLK Shows MLKs views on brotherhood, and wanting everyone to get along |
| "So now it's life. Money is life. Once upon a time freedom used to be life--now it's money. I guess the world really do change..." "No--it was always money, Mama. We just didn't know about it." | Raisin in the Sun Mama and Walter Shows that money has consumed Walter's life |
| "You just name it, son...and I hand you the world!" | Raisin in the Sun Walter Shows that Walter really just wants to please and provide for his family |
| "Then isn't there something wrong in a house--in a world--where all dreams, good or bad, must depend on the death of a man?" "And you cannot answer it!" "I live the answer!" | Raisin in the Sun Asagai and Beneatha Shows theme of dreams, Beneatha's dream is insignificant because it is dependent on the death of her father, and Asagai claims that Beneatha is too dependent |
| "There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing." | Raisin in the Sun Mama-->Beneatha Shows message of book being that you must learn to love people even at their worst. Could be social message on racial prejudice. |
| "We have decided to move into our house because my father--my father--he earned it for us brick by brick. We don't want to make no trouble for nobody or fight no causes, and we will try to be good neighbors. And that's all we got to say about that. We don't want your money." | Raisin in the Sun Walter-->Mr. Lindner Shows change in Walter where money no longer consumes his life, and he learns importance of family and self-worth |
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