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Comprehensive Midterm Review for Literature and Grammar

Prepare for your midterms with our engaging review session! We cover key topics in literature, including the definition of a bildungsroman, significant themes in "To Kill a Mockingbird," and important literary devices. Sharpen your grammar skills with exercises on proper usage of common words, FANBOYS conjunctions, and understanding superlative adjectives. Join us for a fun and interactive "Round Robin" game to reinforce your knowledge with questions related to classic literature and grammar rules. Let's make studying enjoyable!

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Comprehensive Midterm Review for Literature and Grammar

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  1. Midterm Review! Click to begin.

  2. Choose a point value. Choose a point value. Click here for Final Jeopardy

  3. MOCKIN’ OUT GRAMMAR RULES! WORDS LIT. WILD CARD A NIGHT AT THE THEATER 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points

  4. What is a bildungsroman?How does To Kill a Mockingbird qualify as one?

  5. A coming of age narrative. Scout & Jem grow up throughout the novel

  6. Who does Scout judge for his excessive use of syrup?

  7. Walter Cunningham

  8. During what decade is the novel set?

  9. 1930s

  10. What symbolic action of respect does Maycomb’s African American community perform immediately after Tom’s trial?

  11. Standing for Atticus as he leaves the courtroom

  12. ROUND ROBIN!!!

  13. Citizens of Maycomb County, Alabama

  14. What is the difference between their, there, and they’re?

  15. Their – PossessiveThere – LocationThey’re – Contraction for “they are”

  16. Name all of the FANBOYS. What part of speech are these words?

  17. Conjunctions: For And Nor But Or Yet So

  18. Properly use the term farther and further. You may use up to two sentences.

  19. Farther – Literal Distance Further – Figurative Distance

  20. ROUND ROBIN!!!

  21. Types of Major Works!

  22. Describe any food using a superlative adjective.

  23. Superlative – Comparing more than two nouns

  24. Use the following word in a sentence: JOCULAR

  25. Use the following word in a sentence: LARGESS

  26. Use the following word in a sentence: ACCOST

  27. Use the following word in a sentence: INCENDIARY

  28. Use the following word in a sentence: APLOMB

  29. What is the equation for tragedy?

  30. Status + Fall = Tragedy

  31. ROUND ROBIN!!!

  32. Keep the rhyme alive!

  33. Define the term “incongruity of ideas” and then provide an example.

  34. A problematic contradiction that usually exposes hypocrisy, such as an instruction manual that only makes things more complicated.

  35. What is the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet?

  36. A B A B C D C D E F E F G G

  37. Our understanding of tragedy comes from ________, a scholar of Ancient Greece

  38. Aristotle

  39. Shakespeare wrote three types of plays: What are they and what are the differences between each type?

  40. History – Based on historical events Comedy – Ends with marriage Tragedy – Ends with death/suffering

  41. ROUND ROBIN!!!

  42. Characters in The Crucible

  43. Which of the 10 commandments does John Proctor forget?

  44. Thou shalt not commit adultery.

  45. William Shakespeare is considered a Renaissance man. • What does the word Renaissance mean? • How does Shakespeare earn this title?

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