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 * Poetry Test Review: **

Review your list of literary devices and make sure you are familiar with AT LEAST 5 common devices. Think about frequently occurring devices…

Review how to analyze. It’s not just about finding devices, it’s about finding out what those devices mean and why they are used. What’s the purpose? What do the devices do for the text? What effect does the device have? These are all questions you should be asking yourself.

**__ Poetic Devices and Figures of Speech __** **Alliteration**: When two or more words in succession or at short intervals begin with the same letter or sound. // Examples: The fair **b**reeze **b**lew; **C**harlie and the **C**hocolate factory //

**Allusion**: Reference to something outside the work of art that is not usually explained by the writer. // Example: The Simpsons. //

**Anaphora**: A technique that emphasizes words by repeating them at the beginnings of successive phrases, clauses, or verse lines. // Example: __A penny for a__ spool of thread, // //__ A penny for a __ needle. // // That's the way the money goes. // // Pop! goes the weasel. //

**Antithesis**: The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words, phrases, or grammatical structures. // Example: We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." // // (Martin Luther King, Jr., speech at St. Louis, 1964) //

**Enjambment**: The use of “run-on lines” in poetry as opposed to end-stopped lines (where a sentence ends or a natural pause occurs at the end of a verse line). // Example: “There’s no **art**/**To** find the mind’s construction in the face. / He was a gentleman on whom I **built**/ **An** absolute trust.” (Duncan, in Macbeth) //

**Hyperbole**: A figure of speech where emphasis is achieved through exaggeration, independently or through comparison. // Example: A hundred years should go to praise // // Thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze; // // Two hundred to adore each breast; // // But thirty thousand to the rest... (from __To His Coy Mistress__ by Andrew Marvell) //

**Irony**: A state of affairs or an event that seems contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result. Also, a discrepancy between what is said and what is really meant (sarcasm). // Example: A racecar driver is pulled over for driving too slow. //

**Metaphor**: One thing, idea or action is referred to by a word or expression normally denoting another thing, idea or action, so as to suggest some common quality shared by the two. // Examples: My brother is a pig. // // “Her teeth pearls of ice, lips streaks of blood, eyes white flames in a pitch-black- // // night.” (Tomson Highway) //

**Metonymy**: The term used when the attribute of a thing is used in place of the thing itself. // Examples: To refer to the king/queen as “the crown”; to refer to alcohol as “the bottle” //

**Onomatopoeia**: Words that imitate the sounds, objects, or actions that they refer to. // Examples: POW! BOOM! Cluck. Meow. Cha-ching! //

**Simile**: A comparison between two different things, using ‘as’ or ‘like’. // Example: I wandered lonely __as__ a cloud. (William Wordsworth) //

**Symbol**: Anything that stands for, or represents, something else, especially a material object representing something abstract. // Examples: A cross ( //// V ) symbolizes Christianity. Light may represent knowledge or understanding. //

**Theme**: The major idea, often abstract, that emerges from a literary work. // Examples: love; revenge //

**Tone**: A term describing the mood or atmosphere of the work, and sometimes referring to the author’s attitude to the reader. // Examples: formal, somber, ironic, serious, gloomy //

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· Please note that in your essay you are arguing for or against something. We prefer that you are arguing __for__ naturopath/alternative/holistic treatments and __against__ biomedical/pharmaceutical treatments in your essay. We are asking you to take this position because it meets with eco-school goals of environmental/ social sustainability. · Although you are arguing for one side, you must acknowledge both sides of the debate in your paper. Therefore, you may have one to two paragraphs about the downside of pharmaceuticals and two paragraphs about why people coping with your chosen illness may benefit from the use of holistic treatments OR you may have two paragraphs addressing each side. This is left up to your own discretion.

__Essay Handouts (also available in class):__ Essay Writing Package:  Essay Outline:

//One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest -// **Unit Test Study Questions**

List 5 major themes in the text that we have looked at in class. Provide an example from the text for each theme. Check out the triangles in this video to help guide you: []

//Symbols are objects, characters, figures, and colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts. // Name 3 symbols in the text and explain how they function. Draw on evidence from the text.

Explain the significant similarity that the following characters have in common: -the black boys -the nurse on Disturbed -Chief

Some stereotypes / social norms in the text are maintained while others are turned upside down. Pick 3 stereotypes/ social norms in the text that are reversed or broken. In a short paragraph explain how that social norm or stereotype is reversed/broken and use examples from the text as evidence.

Provide some examples of the theme of Christianity in the text. Which minor character is severely religious? Who are religious figures in the text? How is this conveyed? Use examples from the text to support your answer.

What are 3 ways that Nurse Ratched controls the men in the ward?

Think about the characters (major and minor) in the text and list traits related to those characters (physical and social traits). If you are a visual learner, try drawing character sketches that represent the traits of each character.

**//One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest//** <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Batang','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">**Part 4 Study Questions:**

<span style="font-family: 'Batang','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Old book: pages 219-241 <span style="font-family: 'Batang','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">New book: pages 261-288

<span style="font-family: 'Batang','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">1. What magazines does the Doctor bring in for the patients? What do these magazines represent?

<span style="font-family: 'Batang','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">2. During McMurphy’s absence at talk therapy, what topic did Nurse Ratched bring up?

<span style="font-family: 'Batang','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">3. How does she use this discussion to break the men’s confidence in McMurphy?

<span style="font-family: 'Batang','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">4. Why does Chief feel badly about the bet?

<span style="font-family: 'Batang','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">5. How does Chief feel about his face? Does his inner feelings/personality match his outward appearance?

<span style="font-family: 'Batang','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">6. What major event happens in the tub-room? Who is involved?

<span style="font-family: 'Batang','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">7. Where are McMurphy and Chief sent to after the tub-room incident?

<span style="font-family: 'Batang','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">8. How is the head nurse on Disturbed described? What is her race/ethnicity? What’s her personality like? What is significant about the way she is portrayed in the text?

<span style="font-family: 'Batang','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">9. What does the nurse on Disturbed tell McMurphy and Chief about Army nurses?

<span style="font-family: 'Batang','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">10. What is McMurphy alluding to when he says “Anointed my head with conductant. Do I get a crown of thorns?”

<span style="font-family: 'Batang','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">11. What is the significance of the repetition of “Air raid” in the EST sequence?

<span style="font-family: 'Batang','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">12. What happened to Chief’s Grandmother? What is significant about what he remembers about how people reacted to what his father and Uncle R & J did?

<span style="font-family: 'Batang','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Old book: pages 242-272 <span style="font-family: 'Batang','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">New book: pages 289-325

<span style="font-family: 'Batang','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">1. Do the EST treatments seem to work on McMurphy in the way that Nurse Ratched had hoped?

<span style="font-family: 'Batang','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">2. What’s Billy’s relationship like with his mother?

<span style="font-family: 'Batang','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">3. Why did Sandy’s marriage fail?

<span style="font-family: 'Batang','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">4. What happens between Sefelt and Sandy? What does Harding sprinkle over them? What does it represent?

<span style="font-family: 'Batang','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">5. What is Miltowns, Thorazines and Stelazines?

<span style="font-family: 'Batang','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">6. What do the guys mix with the vodka? What’s ironic about this?

<span style="font-family: 'Batang','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">7. Why does McMurphy’s escape plan fail?

<span style="font-family: 'Batang','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">8. Initially, how does Billy act when Nurse Ratched finds him with Candy?

<span style="font-family: 'Batang','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">9. Why does McMurphy attack Nurse Ratched?

<span style="font-family: 'Batang','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">10. What treatment did McMurphy receive at the end?

<span style="font-family: 'Batang','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">11. What does Chief do about it? Why?