Am Lit review

1. Am Lit review

2. Historical Background • Unit 1: • Native Americans literature • Puritan literature • Unit 2: • Age of Reason • Unit 3: • Romanticism • Transcendentalism • Unit 4: • Realism and Naturalism

3. Short Stories • When Grizzlies Walked Upright • Earth on Turtle’s Back • Devil and Tom Walker • Minister’s Black Veil • Where is Here? • Outcasts of Poker Flat • Story of an Hour

4. The Crucible • Abigail Williams • Tituba • Mary Warren • Mercy Lewis • Rev. Parris • Rev. Hale • John Proctor • Elizabeth Proctor • Rebecca Nurse • Giles Corey • Martha Corey • Goody Good • Goody Osburn • Ann Putnam • Mr. Putnam • Judge Danforth • Judge Hathorne • Betty Parris

5. Crucible • Act 2 • Tense relationship b/t Proctors • More accusations start • Hale visits Proctors, learn about dislike for Parris • Elizabeth, Martha, Rebecca arrested • Act 4 • Abby runs away • Elizabeth is asked to convince John to confess • Hale is back, asking for confessions • John confesses, then changes his mind • He has his goodness, hangs. • Act 1 • Dancing in woods • Girls fall ill • Learn about Proctor/Abby affair • First accusations • Act 3 • Mary is to go to court • Giles/Francis/John try to save wives • Court won’t budge, John admits to adultery • Mary weakens, accuses John

6. Grammar • Phrases and Clauses • Adj/Adv phrases: Prep phrases that modify a noun or pronoun (adj phrase) or adverb, verb, adjective (adv. Phrase) • Adj/Adv clause: subordinate clause that modifies noun or pronoun (adj clause) or verb, adv, adj (adv clause) • Appositives • Noun next to another noun to rename or identify • Participle: form of a verb working as a adjective • Gerund: form of a verb working as a noun

7. Grammar • Parts of Speech: Pronouns • Personal: 1st, 2nd, 3rd (I, me, we, you, she, he, him etc) • Antecedent: Word that a pronoun replaces • Demonstrative: Directs attention • This, That, These, Those • Relative: Relates parts of the sentences • That, Which, Whom, Whose, Who • Interrogative: Asks a question • Who, Whom, What, Whose, Which • Indefinite: Undefined amount • Ex: some, all, many, everyone, both, someone • Reflexive/Intensive: Ends in –self, -selves • R- Reflects back on action in sentence • I- intensifies meaning of sentence

8. Grammar • Conjunctions: Link parts of sentence together • Coordinating • FANBOYS • Correlative: 2 parts • Both…and, Neither….nor, Either….or, Not only… but also, whether… or • Subordinating: Is dependant on the rest of the sentence • EX: While, If, Because, Until, Since

9. Grammar • Prepositions • word that relates the noun or pronoun that appears with it to another word in the sentence • End with an Object of the Preposition (noun or pronoun) Preposition + Noun/Pronoun (the object of the prep) makes a prepositional phrase

10. Verbs • Transitive • Ask Who or What after Verb- If you can answer Yes, Transitive • I drove Billy home from school. • I drove who? Billy • Transitive verb • Intransitive • Ask Who or What after Verb- If you can’t answer, Intransitive • I drove to school. • I drove who? • I drove what? • No Answer: Intransitive verb

11. Complements and IO/DO • Renaming or describing subject • Subject + Linking verb + Adj (PA) • Subject + Linking verb + Noun (PN) • Subject + Action verb +who/what = DO • Subject + Action verb (DO) to whom/for whom = IO