ENG2D1 Exam Review. Essay Exam Day: Wednesday January 21, 2015 Exam Time: 1 hour in your regular class time and room

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1 ENG2D1 Exam Review Part A: In Class Essay 1 Hour Essay Exam Day: Wednesday January 21, 2015 Exam Time: 1 hour in your regular class time and room Instructions: Review the topic options below. Write a well structured, four paragraph persuasive literary essay based on your selected topic, using the texts studied this year, Romeo and Juliet & The Great Gatsby. Topics: 1. Choose a minor character in each of the core texts studied this year and explain how this minor character contributes significantly to the plot, theme, or the development of other characters. 2. Assess the significance of setting. You may consider the importance of the setting in such elements as atmosphere, mood, character development and theme. 3. The success of a story depends on the intensity of the crisis. Discuss the truth of this statement with reference to the two core texts we studied this year. 4. A close relationship or the lack of a close relationship may change a person s life. Discuss the truth of this statement with reference to the core texts studied this year. 5. An interesting story always involves a significant change in a main character. Discuss the truth of this statement with reference to the core texts studied this year. 6. In works of literature, childhood and adolescence are portrayed as either a happy or painful experience. Discuss the truth of this statement with reference to the core texts studied this year. 7. A wise character learns to see his/her faults and to act accordingly. Discuss the truth of this statement with reference to the core texts studied this year. 8. A character s real personality appears when this person faces a crisis. Discuss the truth of this statement with reference to the core texts studied this year. 9. A close relationship or the lack of a close relationship may change a person s life. Discuss the truth of this statement with reference to the core texts studied this year. 10. An interesting story always involves a significant change in a main character. Discuss the truth of this statement with reference to the core texts studied this year. 11. In works of literature, childhood and adolescence are portrayed as either a happy or painful experience. Discuss how this is evident with reference to the core texts studied this year. 12. Appearances can be deceiving and this deception can either have positive or negative consequences. Discuss the truth of this statement with reference to the core texts. 13. Caring about what others think can be harmful to an individual or it can guide him/her to develop a conscience. Discuss the truth of this statement with reference to the core texts studied this year.

2 Part B: Sight Passage with Questions ½ Hour Exam Day: Wednesday January 28, 2015 Exam Time: 8:30 9:00 AM Exam Room: TBA Instructions: Read the short story provided Annotate for literary devices, figurative language, inferences and connections within the text. Brainstorm the short answers in the space provided to help you answer the multiple choice questions. Circle the best answer for each multiple question. THE WHITE KNIGHT by Eric Nicol Once upon a time there was this knight who lived in a little castle on the edge of the Forest of Life. One day this knight looked in the mirror and saw that he was a White Knight. Lo! he cried. I am a White Knight and therefore represent good. I am the champion of virtue and honour and justice, and I must ride into the forest and slay the black Knight, who is evil. So the White Knight mounted his snow white horse and rode into the forest to find the Black Knight and slay him in single combat. Many miles he rode the first day, without so much as a glimpse of the Black Knight. The second day, he rode even farther, still without sighting the ebony armour of mischief. Day after day he rode, deeper and deeper into the Forest of Life, searching thicket and gully and even the treetops. The Black Knight was nowhere to be seen. Yet the White Knight found many signs of the Black Knight s presence. Again and again he passed a village in which the Black Knight had struck a baker s shop robbed, a horse stolen, an innkeeper s daughter ravished. But always he just missed catching the doer of these deeds. At last the White Knight had spent all his gold in the cause of his search. He was tired and hungry. Feeling his strength ebbing, he was forced to steal some buns from a bakeshop. His horse went lame, so that he was forced to replace it, silently and by darkness, with another white horse in somebody s stable. And when he stumbled, faint and exhausted, into an inn, the innkeeper s daughter gave him her bed, and because he was the White Knight in shining armour, she gave him her love, and when he was strong enough to leave the inn she cried bitterly because she could not understand he had to go and find the Black Knight and slay him. Through many months, under hot sun, over frosty paths, the White Knight pressed on his search, yet all the knights he met in the forest were like himself, fairly white. They were knights of varying shades of white depending on how long they, too, had been hunting the Black Knight. Some were sparkling white. These had just started hunting that day and irritated the White Knight by innocently asking directions to the nearest Black Knight. Others were tattletale grey. And still others were so grubby, horse and rider, that the mirror in their castle would never have recognized them. Yet, the White Knight was shocked the day a knight of gleaming whiteness confronted him suddenly in the forest and with a wild whoop thundered towards him with leveled lance. The White Knight barely had time to draw his sword and, ducking under the deadly steel, plunge it into the attacker s breast. The White Knight dismounted and kneeled beside his mortally wounded assailant, whose visor had fallen back to reveal blond curls and a youthful face. He heard the words, whispered in anguish: Is evil then triumphant? And holding the dead knight in his arms he saw that beside the bright armour of the youth his own, besmirched by the long quest, looked black in the darkness of the forest. His heart heavy with horror and grief, the White Knight who was white no more, buried the boy, then slowly stripped off his own soiled mail, turned his grimy horse free to the forest, and stood naked and alone in the quiet dusk.

3 Before him lay a path which he slowly took, which led him to his castle on the edge of the forest. He went into the castle and closed the door behind him. He went to the mirror and saw that it no more gave back the White Knight, but only a middle aged, naked man, a man who had stolen and ravished and killed in pursuit of evil. Thereafter, when he walked abroad from his castle he wore a coat of simple colours, a cheerful motley, and never looked for more than he could see. And his hair grew slowly white, as did his fine, full beard, and the people all around called him the Good White Knight. Short Answer Questions: Brainstorm these questions to help you answer the multiple choice questions 1. What is the name of the forest where this story is set, and why is this significant? 2. As the White Knight rode deeper and deeper into the forest, what THREE things was he forced to do? And why do you think the author used the word forced? 3. Explain why the knights in the forest were of varying shades of whiteness. 4. Label a plot diagram using proper story structure terms and provide an example of each from the text Multiple Choice Questions: Circle the best answer for each question with reference to the short story.

4 1. What literary device is used in the following passage? he rode even farther, still without sighting the ebony armour of mischief? a. metaphor b. simile c. personification d. irony 2. What three bad deeds did the White Knight do in the village on his quest to kill the Black night? a. Robbed the baker, stole a horse and ravaged a woman b. Robbed the butcher, slept in a barn without permission and broke a woman s heart c. He did not do any bad deeds because he is the white knight d. Killed another knight, took his clothes and stole his horse 3. What is the main setting of the story? a. The Village b. The White Knights Castle c. An Inn d. The Forest of Life 4. Feeling his strength ebbing, he was forced Why do you think the author uses the word forced in the story? a. To show that the Black Knight made the White Knight perform these deeds b. To demonstrate that the White Knight had no other choice c. To blur the lines between good and evil deeds d. Both b and c 5. What literary device is developed in the following passage of the story? The White Knight dismounted and kneeled beside his mortally wounded assailant, whose visor had fallen back to reveal blond curls and a youthful face. He heard the words, whispered in anguish: Is evil then triumphant? a. dramatic irony b. pathetic fallacy c. foreshadowing d. situational irony 6. Without looking at a dictionary, what does the word besmirch imply? a. to soil or make dirty b. something that is tarnished or discoloured c. to detract from one s honour d. all of the above 7. Without looking at a dictionary, how is the word motley used? a. a filthy piece of clothing

5 b. a colourful garment c. implies happiness d. none of the above 8. What is the climax of the story? b. When the white knight leaves the forest 9. What is the rising action of the story? b. When the white knight leaves the Forest of Life 10. What is the introduction of the story? b. When the white knight leaves the Forest of Life *I will post the answers on our class website after our exam review days are complete* **Make sure you review your short story elements notes, powerpoints and handouts** **Make sure you review your literary devices and figurative language notes, power points, videos and handouts**