2° Grade Sec. VI Literature Guide December

COLEGIO ANGLO MEXICANO DE COYOACÁN, SECUNDARIA

GUÍA DE EXAMEN DICIEMBRE

Grado: 2º  Group: ______       Sec: V, VI, VII  Advanced

Alumno (a): _____________________________________________________

  

1. Answer the questions       The Tell-Tale Heart   ( collection 2, page 89 )

1. Who wrote “The Tell-Tale Heart”? ____________________________________

2. How is the story written? ___________________________________________

3. Who are the two main characters? ____________________________________

4. Where are the things the narrator used to hear from? ____________________

5. How did the idea of the murder enter the narrator’s mind?

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6. What did he feel for the old man? _____________________________________

7. What was he afraid of? _____________________________________________

8. How did the narrator treat the old man before the killing?

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9. How long did he take to kill the old man? _______________________________

10. What did the narrator do every night? _________________________________

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11. How did he feel the night of the murder? ______________________________

12. Did the old man discover the narrator before he was killed? _______________

13. How did he kill the old man? ________________________________________

14. What did the narrator do with the old man’s body? _______________________

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15. Who visited the narrator the next day? _________________________________

16. How did he feel at first while talking to the police? _______________________

17. What kind of noise did the narrator start to hear in his mind? _______________

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18. What did he finally do? ______________________________________________

19. In the end, what was wrong with the narrator? __________________________

2. Answer the questions               Scary Tales ( collection 2, page 99 )

1. Who wrote this essay? ________________________________________________

2. Where did the writer grow up? __________________________________________

3. How do people call her? _______________________________________________

4. Who narrates scary stories in this lecture? ________________________________

5. Who used to say Granddaddy was the biggest liar God ever blew breath into?

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6. Who wanted to hear the story about the chase by the fire dog? ______________________________________________________________________

7. Who is the old man that used to visit to hear scary stories? ____________________

8. What anecdote did she refer to one day the visitor came? _____________________

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9. What happened when tobacco fell off and hit a the wood? ____________________

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10. What did everybody do? _______________________________________________

11. What fell off from Mr. Halls’ head?_______________________________________

12. What does she say about those days when her grandpa told scary stories?

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13. Who said to take a branch and hit a stubborn mule into the head? _____________

14. Now that she tells stories, what is her “branch” to get children’s attention?

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3. Choose the best explanation

1. Granddaddy was the biggest liar God ever blew breath into.           _______

         A) God made grandpa come to life, or be born.

         B) God blew into grandpa’s face

2. “He’d have to tell one if it killed him”                                          _______

         A) He really wanted to kill someone with his stories

         B) He really loved to tell scary stories

3. “Hold it! Let me leave the room, lightning’s going to strike!”           _______

         A) A ray from heaven is going to hit the house of a liar

         B) A storm is coming just when grandpa starts telling the story

4. “Get up, get up! That ain’t nice”                                                _______

         A) A formal or high level way to say “am not”

         B) An informal or low level way to say “am not”

5. I’ve got friends that rather be killed  than go to junior high.           _______

         A) They really want to be dead to attend junior high

         B) They prefer not to deal with children

6. Only fools rush in where angels fear to tread                               _______

         A) Angels don’t take the risk to enter a dangerous place

         B) Angels take the risk to enter a dangerous place

7. You should think twice before you go into the woods                   _______

         A) You should analize carefully about the dangers  

         B) You should think in the woods for two times

8. My grandpa used to scare me to death                                     _______

         A) I used to get really frightened

         B) I used to die, and then come back to life

4. Answer the questions      What is the horror genre? ( collection 2, page 125 )

1. What genre is intended to scary and startle the readers? _____________________

2. Who are Frankenstein, Dracula and the Wolfman? ___________________________

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3. Who created Frankenstein monster? ______________________________________

4. Who wrote “Frankenstein monster”? ______________________________________

5. What kind of creature id Dracula? ________________________________________

6. Who wrote “Dracula”? _________________________________________________

7. What trait does horror genre shares with other types of fiction? _______________
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8. How is this feeling intensified? ___________________________________________

9. Part of the tension is created because we know the characters are doing something…

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10. Who wrote “Salem’s Lot”? _____________________________________________

11. How does the author play with our expectations of the story? ________________

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12. In suspense, what is the most critical part of the story? _____________________

13. What are two traditional elements in horror genre? _________________________

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14. In a traditional horror story, we expect a connection between... _______________

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15. What are the two categories of this genre based on how stories are explained
     to us?______________________________________________________________

16. What conflict is a common theme to horror? ______________________________

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5. Based on this lecture, complete the definitions.

1. Traditional places for monsters are traditional  homes   /  settings

2. To share certain traits is to share   characteristics  /  treatment

3. To make something grow or increase in strength is to intensify  /  enlarge

4. To prove that something is right or valid, you  clarify  /  justify    it

5. Things that have comparable or similar parts are parallel  /  opposite

6. When someone hesitates, he or she   has doubts  /  is certain   about something

7. When something is forbidden, it is   forgotten  /  prohibited

8. When you make a quest, you make a   question  /  search