Term 3 Short Story Test: Final review

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Term 3 Short Story Test:

Final review

Plan

• A quick note on next term

• Personal test checklist (are you prepared?)

• Review of stories and literary terms

• Time for self-study review

Term 4

Just to show you where we are going, let's quickly consult the planner for Term 4 (added to Classroom)...

Test preparation: a personal checklist

• Do you know the basics of each short story? (also - remember the authors)

• Can you identity one or two themes for each story?

• Can you write well-structured paragraphs, with ideas presented in a logical and connected fashion?

• Can you identity authorial choices and explain these by using examples?

If so...

Test preparation: a personal checklist

In a nightmare reality TV-type scenario, which character would you first vote for to leave the house / island / rocket ship?

1

Madame Lantin ("The False Gems")

2

Protagonist / narrator ("Boys and Girls")

3

Kathleen ("The Demon Lover")

4

John ("The Yellow Wallpaper")

5

Dee ("Everyday Use")

Which character would you hire to lead a workshop on "What to do after you have killed someone"?

1

The narrator ("The Tell-Tale Heart")

2

Mary ("Lamb to the Slaughter")

3

Mr. Loveday ("Mr. Loveday's Little Outing")

4

Marais van der Vyver ("The Moment Before the Gun Went Off")

Favourite story of the ones studied this term?

1

"Boys and Girls"

2

"Everyday Use"

3

"Gravel"

4

"Lamb to the Slaughter"

5

"Mr Loveday's Little Outing"

Favourite story of the ones studied this term?

1

"Sonny's Blues"

2

"The Demon Lover"

3

"The False Gems"

4

"The Garden Party"

5

"The Moment Before the Gun Went Off"

Favourite story of the ones studied this term?

1

"The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope"

2

"The Yellow Wallpaper"

3

"The Tell-Tale Heart"

4

"A Private Experience"

Match the quotation to the character:

She cries quietly, her shoulders heaving up and down, the kind that screams Hold me and comfort me because I cannot deal with this alone. The woman's crying is private, as though she is carrying out a necessary ritual that involves no one else.

A

The protagonist ("Boys and Girl")

B

"The woman" ("A Private Experience")

C

Lucas's mother ("The Moment Before the Gun Went Off")

D

The narrator ("The Yellow Wallpaper")

Match the quotation to the character:

The officers were satisfied. My manner had convinced them. I was singularly at ease. They sat, and while I answered cheerily, they chatted of familiar things. But, ere long, I felt myself getting pale and wished them gone. My head ached, and I fancied a ringing in my ears: but still they sat and still chatted.

A

Mr. Loveday ("Mr. Loveday's Little Outing")

B

The narrator ("The Yellow Wallpaper")

C

Mary ("Lamb to the Slaughter")

D

The narrator ("The Tell-Tale Heart")

Match the quotation to the character:

Of course, I loathe the whole lot of them; in fact, I’m rapidly becoming something of a woman-hater under their influence, but I can’t afford to disregard the financial aspect of the matter.

A

Mr. Loveday ("Mr. Loveday's Little Outing")

B

Septimus Brope ("The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope")

C

The Lover ("The Demon Lover")

D

Sonny ("Sonny's Blues")

Match the quotation to the character:

Those short winter days must have seemed strange to me -- in town, the lights came on at dusk. But children get used to changes. Sometimes I wondered about our other house. I didn't exactly miss it or want to live there again -- I just wondered where it had gone.

A

Laura ("The Garden Party")

B

The narrator ("Gravel")

C

Kathleen ("The Demon Lover")

D

The narrator ("Boys and Girls")

Remembering literary terms (use for authorial choices)

Juxtaposition: an effect created by placing two strikingly dissimilar things in close proximity, for example the cheerful garden party guests in contrast to Lord Moping's attempted suicide in "Mr. Loveday's Little Outing".

Unreliable narrator: a first-person narrator who gives us reason to doubt the absolute truth of their version of events. as in "The Tell-Tale Heart."

Alliteration: as in "the beating of his hideous heart" ("The Tell-Tale Heart").

Imagery: MUST be discussed with reference to what type of imagery, for example, the sense imagery related to taste (the sandwiches and cream puffs) in "The Garden Party."

Adjectives: as in "There was a slow smiling air about her, and about everything she did.

The drop of a head as she bent over her sewing was curiously tranquil. Her skin -for

this was her sixth month with child-had acquired a wonderful translucent quality, the

mouth was soft, and the eyes, with their new placid look, seemed larger, darker than

before." ("Lamb to the Slaughter")

Onomatopoeia: closely related to sound-imagery in writing.

Exposition: the part of the story that establishes setting and background, introduces characters...

Juxtaposition

"The Tell-Tale Heart."

Alliteration

"The Garden Party."

Adjectives

Onomatopoeia

Exposition