English Lit · Unit 3 · Paper 1

Longer Fiction / Drama unit test

A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.

Paper 1 Paper 2 Paper 3

Each paper is built from this unit’s 18 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 3, Paper 1” and every student sits the identical test. Multiple choice is marked objectively; the written sections you mark yourself against the model answer and rubric.

Suggested time 33 min 30 points0/17 attempted

Aside

Foil in extended works

Tragic hero and hamartia

Soliloquy vs monologue

Frame narrative

Archetype

Bildungsroman

Subplot

Setting as antagonist

Dramatic structure

Symbolic patterns across a work

Situational and verbal irony

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Comedy vs tragedy structurally

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Ending types

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Catharsis

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Pacing and chapter structure

3 pts

Free response

6 pts

This course has no free-response prompt tagged to this unit, so one from elsewhere in the course is used. It is still worth writing — the skill transfers.

Literary Argument: Many works feature a character who must choose between personal desire and duty to a community. Choose a novel or play of literary merit in which a character faces such a choice. Analyze how that choice and its consequences contribute to an interpretation of the work as a whole. Do not merely summarize the plot.