WALLPOST REVIEW 8th Test Review Grade: 10th Teacher: D. Carrillo Date: March 26th 2014 I. Grammar: Adjective, Adverb and Noun Clauses II. Author: Edgar Allan Poe III. Literature: The Pit and the Pendulum IV. Words to Know I. Grammar: Adjective, Adverb and Noun Clauses 1. Adjective Clause: is used to describe a noun. Adjective clauses always follow the noun they’re describing. Example: The car, which was red, belonged to Young-Hee. Relative pronouns/Keywords: who, whom, which, that 2. Adverb Clauses: they tell you where, when, why, under what conditions? Example: I saw the movie before I left for Calgary. Clause before I left for Calgary answers WHEN he left for Calgary Keywords: after, before, until, while, because, since, as, so that, in order that, if, unless, whether, though, although, even though, where 3. Noun Clauses: clauses that work as nouns do in sentences. They answer WHAT in sentences. Example: Billy’s friends didn’t know that he couldn’t swim. Clause that he couldn’t swim. It tells you WHAT his friends didn’t know. Keywords: how, what, when, where, which, who, whom, whose, why, however, whatever, whenever, wherever, whichever, whoever, whomever. Practice: ____ 1. Thunder boomed four seconds after a huge lightning bolt split the sky. ____ 2. Because Argentina possesses such rich grasslands, cattle ranches prosper. ____ 3. Turn right at the first stop sign that you see. ____ 4. Whenever the magnet passed over the compass, the compass needle spun wildly. ____ 5. You must do whatever you want most. ____ 6. Did you know that the Colossus of Rhodes was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World? ____ 7. Who were the people whose manuscripts have been discovered in the deserts of the Middle East? ____ 8. African drums may sound mysterious to people who are not used to hearing them. ____ 9. Do you know what alphabet has the most letters? ____ 10. The world is full of things that are invisible and unknown to us. II. Author: Edgar Allan Poe The son of traveling actors, Edgar Poe was orphaned at an early age and taken in by John and Frances Allan, a wealthy couple from Richmond, Virginia. A moody adolescent, Poe quarreled with John Allan, who scorned his literary ambitions and wanted him to join the family business. He left the University of Virginia without graduating and was expelled from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1831. He then moved in with his aunt and his cousin Virginia, whom he wed in 1836, when she was just 13 years old. Having already published three slim volumes of poetry, Poe began writing reviews and stories for magazines. In 1839 he collected the stories in Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. Fame came when his mystery tale The Gold Bug won first prize in an 1843 contest and especially with the publication, two years later, of his eerie poem The Raven. By then Virginia was in the throes of the tuberculosis that soon claimed her life. Poe antagonized the literary community by attacking popular writers. He grew ill himself and died on a Baltimore street at age 40 on October 3, 1849. Some of his works are: 1. “The Black Cat” 2. “The Cask of Amontillado” 3. “ Descent into the Maelstrom” 4. “The Pit and the Pendulum” 5. “The Tell-Tale Heart” 6. “The Raven” III. Literature: The Pit and the Pendulum Questions: 1. What is the setting of the story? A torture cell in Toledo, Spain, during the Spanish Inquisition. 2. What point of view is being used to narrate the story? The story is narrated in first person POV 3. What are two things that the narrator remembers about the courtroom? The narrator remembers being sentenced to death, hearing a hum of voices, seeing the thin, white lips of the judges, seeing seven tall candles on a table, fainting, and being carried away. 4. What phenomenon does the narrator discuss in great detail? Human suffering 5. When the narrator wakes up what does the narrator think he is in? He thinks he is in a tomb because of the inquisition’s cruel methods of torture. 6. What does the narrator try to take from his pocket? He tries to reach for his knife. 7. While making his way through his prison, what does the narrator discover about it? The narrator discovers that the prison is stone, the floor is slimy, and that there is a huge pit in the room. He determines that it’s about 50 yards long but he is unable to determine its shape. 8. After the narrator passes out for the first time what does he find on the ground? He finds a loaf of bread and water. 9. How was the inquisition drugging the narrator? They were probably drugging the water and food that was being left in the cell for him to eat. 10. What does the narrator see when he wakes from his drugged sleep? The narrator sees a strange sulphurous glow in the room; he noticed the prison must be made of some kind of metal and not stone. He sees the pit beside him and the figure of Time painted in the ceiling, which seems to be holding a huge pendulum. 11. When the narrator was bound to wood what body part(s) were still free? He had free his head and left arm. 12. What animals started to gather around the narrator? Rats were gathering around him in the cell. 13. The narrator noticed that the pendulum is real and coming down onto which part of his body? The pendulum was swinging back and forth going to down to slice him through the chest and his heart. 14. Before the pendulum goes down on his, what does the narrator do and how is he saved? He thinks and smears his restrains with meat so that the rats eat through them. 15. What happens when the narrator finally manages to escape from his bonds? The narrator realizes that the walls are red-hot and moving toward him, pushing him toward the pit. 16. What happens when the narrator finally manages to escape from his bonds? The narrator realizes that the walls are red-hot and moving toward him, pushing him toward the pit. 17. What happens to the narrator, does he live or die? Why? He is saved by the French armies. 18. What is the THEME of this story? The Horror of Death 19. Mention examples of symbols found in this story. The pendulum: represents time. The pit: symbolizes the fire of hell The rats: symbolized decay, torture and horror. The hand: symbolizes God’s hands saving him from the fires of hell. IV. Words to Know 1. discordant 2. imperceptible 3. lucid 4. relapse 5. supposition 6. eloquent 7. insuperable 8. pertinacity 9. resolution 10. treacherous 11. encompass 12. lethargy 13. potent 14. stealthily 15. voracity
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