Honors English III Final Exam Study Guide – 2025

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Feminist Critical Lens

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Focuses on how women’s lives or the relationships of men and women are influenced or distorted by their culture, time period, or expected gender roles.

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New Historicism Critical Lens

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Focuses on finding meaning in a text by considering the work within the framework of the prevailing ideas and assumptions of its historical era.

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Marxist Critical Lens

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Focuses on how individual lives are shaped by their class or by the interaction of social classes and political institutions.

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New Criticism Critical Lens

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Focuses on interpreting a work based solely on what is within the work itself by usually analyzing elements such as irony, paradox, imagery, and metaphor.

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Psychoanalytical Critical Lens

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Focuses on demonstrating how human traits, flaws, weaknesses, and tendencies affect the outcome of the story, and how self-interest such as greed, impatience, etc., affects behavior.

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Archetypal Critical Lens

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Focuses on the assumption that there is a collection of symbols, images, characters, and motifs that evokes basically the same response in all people.

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Alliteration

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The repetition of similar consonant sounds within a phrase or sentence.

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Allusion

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A reference to a well-known person, event, place, literary work, or work of art.

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Anaphora

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Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines.

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Asyndeton

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The absence of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses or words. Example: 'I came, I saw, I conquered.'