English 170 Final Exam Study Guide
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Critical thinking ○ What do we mean by “critical” in English 170? ○ What are the four responses to a piece of literature? ○ What is summarizing? ○ Metaphors ○ Personification ○ Hyperbole, Understatement and Irony Brave New World ○ Main characters ○ Themes ○ Plot ○ Aldous Huxley MLA Format ○ Parenthetical Citations ○ Works Cited page Reading Arguments Critically ○ Evidence for arguments ○ Argumentative Fallacies Argumentative Essay ○ Methods of organization Literary Analysis ○ Definition Kate Chopin’s “The Death of an Hour” ○ Plot ○ Themes The Research Paper ○ Paraphrasing ○ Summarizing ○ Primary and Secondary Sources ○ Direct Quotes ○ Plagiarism Common Writing Mistakes ○ Introductory Elements ○ Vague Pronoun Reference ○ Verb Tenses
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