What will be on your assessment this Friday and Monday.

1. Epic: a long narrative poem celebrating a hero’s deeds.
Characteristics of an epic:
• The hero, usually male, is of noble birth or high position; is often of great historical or legendary importance.
• Traits reflect values of hero’s society
• Performs courageous (sometimes superhuman) acts
• Actions often determine the fate of a nation or group of people
• Setting is vast; often more than 1 nation
• Poet has formal diction and serious tone
• Major characters deliver long, formal speeches
• Plot is complicated by supernatural beings or events; involves long and dangerous journey through foreign lands
• Timeless values of courage and honor
• Universal themes; ex. Good and evil, life and death
2. Literature
Beowulf:
--Anglo-Saxon epic poem
“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
--Romance-imaginative adventure with noble heroes, gallant love, chivalry, and daring deeds.
You will need to be able to summarize both works.
3. Know vocabulary from both works
4. Grammar
a. Correct fragments
b. Correct run on sentences using a comma with a conjunction, semicolon, and separating as two complete sentences.
i. I like school; math is my favorite subject.
ii. I like school. Math is my favorite subject.
iii. I like school, and math is my favorite subject.
5. Literary terms
a. You will be given a new piece of literature and asked to identify different literary techniques.
i. Techniques to know
1. Protagonist
2. Setting
3. Alliteration
4. Characterization
5. Imagery
6. Rhyme
7. simile