The Prince and the Bard

Unit Review Sheet

Facts and Definitions

Lesson 1: Introduction to The Little Prince

• Prestigious means having a strong reputation for greatness.
• Parentheses are used in sentences to set off words or phrases that illustrate or clarify; parentheses are also used in plays to indicate stage directions.
• Four persuasive techniques used by media are promises, dares, flattery, and glittering generalities. Glittering generalities are positive words that are used to make the viewer or reader feel good about the product, but they don't say anything specific.

Lesson 2: Meeting the Little Prince

• An apparition is a supernatural or other-worldly being.
• Edification is teaching or instructing.

Lesson 3: The Flower and Other Planets

• Acclamations are expressions of admiration and amazement.
• An ellipsis is a group of three dots that indicates that words or sentences have been omitted from a quotation.

Lesson 4: Earth and Other Planets

• Ephemeral means something that lasts only a short time or that is temporary.

Lesson 5: Making Friends on Earth

• If an activity never changes and becomes boring, it is monotonous.
• Italics are used to distinguish certain words or sections from others in the text.

Lesson 6: Saying Goodbye

• When an author gives the reader a hint of something that will happen later in the book, this is called foreshadowing.

Lesson 7: Introduction to Shakespeare

• Brackets are used for situations where you need parentheses inside of parentheses or when you need to include comments or clarifications within quoted material.

Lesson 8: Beginning A Midsummer Night's Dream

• The plot tells the main events that happen in a story or play.
• The settings are all the places where the story or play takes place.
• The characters are everyone who appears on stage in a play.

Lesson 9: Puck's Pranks

• Expressions are important or often-used phrases in speech and writing.

Lesson 10: Dreams

• When reading aloud or reciting parts of a play, special rules of when to pause apply. These include not pausing at the end of a line (unless there is a punctuation mark) and inserting a short pause for commas; a longer pause for colons, semicolons, and dashes; and a brief stop for periods, question marks, and exclamation points.

Lesson 11: Watching the Play

• Tragedies are plays where at least one of the main characters has a moral flaw that leads to a sad or disastrous conclusion.
• Comedies are plays where the main characters grow and change through the challenges they face, and they are eventually rewarded with a happy ending.

Lesson 12: Tragic Love

• In Shakespeare, pestilence usually refers to the bubonic plague, a dangerous illness that killed many people.
• Presage means a feeling that foreshadows or warns that something bad is going to happen.

Final Project: Love Letters

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