10th Grade Final Exam Study Guide

10th Grade Final Exam Study Guide for Fall 2008

Your Fall 2008 Final Exam will include 3 out of these 6 passages. You will have to identify where these passages are from, who wrote it, and then write a passage analysis for each of these passages in which you discuss the relevance of the passage, the literary terms within the passage (at least three literary terms in each passage), and finally, the purpose/effect of the passage. Because you only have 50 minutes to take this exam, I recommend that you write these analyses ahead of time so that you can organize your thoughts and make it easier to express yourself on the day of the final.
Remember that your rubric will be the same one that we always have— where each passage is worth 20 points.

Because you have these passages in advance, I will be grading your analyses VERY CRITICALLY.

Passage I
“The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”

Passage II
"This thou perceivest, which makes they love more strong,
To love that well which thou must leave ere long.”

Passage III
"A HEART alone
Is such a stone
As nothing but
Thy power doth cut.
Wherefore each part
Of my hard heart
Meets in this frame
To praise thy name.
That if I chance to hold my peace,
These stones to praise thee may not cease."



Passage IV
"But Paris in turn did not linger long in his high house, but when he had put on his glorious armour with bronze elaborate he ran in the confidence of his quick feet through the city. As when some stalled horse who has been corn-fed at the manger breaking free of his rope gallops over the plain in thunder to his accustomed bathing place in a sweet-running river and in the pride of his strength holds high his head, and the mane floats over his shoulders; sure of his glorious strength, the quick knees carry him to the loved places and the pasture of horses; so from uttermost Pergamos came Paris, the son of Priam, shining in all his armour of war as the sun shines, laughing aloud, and his quick feet carried him; suddenly thereafter, he came on brilliant Hektor, his brother, where he yet lingered before turning away from the place where he had talked with his lady."

Passage V
No, it’s no disgrace for a man, even a wise man,
To learn many things and not to be too rigid.
You’ve seen trees by a raging winter torrent,
How many sway with the flood and salvage every twig,
But not the stubborn—they’re ripped out, roots and all.Bend or break. The same when a man is sailing:
Haul your sheets too taut, never give an inch,
You’ll capsize, and go the rest of the voyage
Keel up and the rowing benches under.
Oh give way. Relax your anger—change!

Passage VI
Therefore
we must defend the men who live by law,
never let some woman triumph over us.
Better to fall from power, if fall we must,
At the hands of a man—never be rated
Inferior to a woman, never.