English Quotes 2
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- Which quote shows Milton asking for guidance from the Holy Spirit?
- 'Oh Spirit...Instruct me...thou from the first was present'
- Which quote shows Milton saying the purpose to his book?
- 'I may assert Eternal Providence and justify the ways of God to men'
- Which quote shows God speaking to the Son about man?
- 'I made him sufficient to have stood, yet free to fall...Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault'
- Which quote shows Milton speaking about the fall?
- 'that which purifies us is trial...wherefore did he create passions within is, pleasures round about us, but that these greatly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue'.
- Which quote is from the devil when he arrives in Eden?
- 'The more I see pleasures round about me, so much more I feel torment within me'.
- What quote shows Eve convincing herself that eating the fruit is for the best?
- 'For good unknown, sure is not had'.
- What quote shows Eve deciding whether or not to give the fruit to Adam?
- 'Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe'.
- What quote shows Eve persuading Adam to allow them to split up?
- 'How are we happy, still in fear of harm?'
- What quote is from Genesis, and it shows the difference between itself and Paradise Lost?
- 'She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it'.
- What did someone say to do with the tiger and the lamb and who said it?
- Carter tries to find ways in which the tiger and lamb try to reach some sort of accommodation. Margaret Atwood
- What did someone say to do with re-writing fairytales and who said it?
- Carter only re-write fairytales in their original structures. Duncker.
- What did someone say about biological and maternal bonds and who said it?
- That Carter writes out any biological or maternal bonds. Jouve
- What quote shows you don't have to get married
- 'So all your wifes, if you need them...and husbands, if you want them' Carter, 'Puss-In-Boots'.
- What quote shows the fat black woman is active?
- 'Come up and see me sometime' 'Invitation, Grace Nichols
- What quote shows that men can find all colours attractive?
- 'So if you want to know beauty's Rainbow sweet thrill, stroll down the luscious, deligious, fine Sugar Hill'. Langston Hughes, Harlem Sweeties
- What quote shows someone who isn't sure where they fit in?
- 'I wonder where I'm gonna die, being neither white nor black'. 'Cross' Langston Hughes
- What quote shows someone saying everyone is similar in some way?
- 'You are a part of me as I am a part of you'. 'Theme for English B', Langston Hughes
- What quote shows someone unable to hide their views any longer?
- 'Yes yes yes. I'd like this baby to live in a nuclear free world'. 'The Waiting List' Jackie Kay
- What quote shows someone proud of their language?
- 'I spoke the languge that I spoke at home'. 'Them & [uz]' Tony Harrison
- Which quote shows someone feeling almost guilty because of their skin colour?
- 'Nothing remained but self-confession'. Wole Soyinka, 'Telephone Conversation'.
- Which quote shows someone struggling to remember her mother?
- 'Why do I remember her [Bessie's] voice, and not my own mother's?' Jackie Kay, 'The Red Graveyard
- Which quote shows that his mother is ashamed of his writing?
- 'You weren't brought up to write such mucky books' 'Bringing Up', Tony Harrison
- Which quote shows his mother determined for her son to be just as good as the higher classes?
- 'You're every bit as good as that lot are', 'Turns', Tony Harrison
- Which quote shows someone defending their fathers' language?
- 'Mi dad's did scan, like yours do, many times', 'Confessional Poetry', Tony Harrison
- Which quote says about what makes an author the way they are and who said it?
- 'authors are...very much in the history of their societies, shaping and shaped by that history and their social experience in different measure'. Edward Said
- Which quote says about the authors of the canon?
- 'they [the great English novelists] are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilites of life'.
- What quote shows that he can't write better than his father?
- 'I can't squeeze more love into their stone'. 'Bookends I' Tony Harrison
- What quote shows his mother not wanting to feel inferior to everyone?
- 'she bought to wear, not to be outclassed by those posh frocks at her son's next New York premiere!' 'Illuminations III', Tony Harrison
- What ideas are both the revolution and Paradise Lost concerned with?
- The origins of power, what it means to be ruled, the worthyness of those being ruled and what characterises justice.
- What quote shows Hamlet's strong feelings of hate for Claudius?
- 'Remorseless, trecherous, lecherous, kindless villain! O, vengeance!'
- What quote shows Hamlet's disgust at Gertrude's behaviour?
- 'O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason would have mourn'd longer.'
- What quote shows that Hamlet is only insane in the way that he doesn't understand what is going on, or that he only is mad when he chooses to be?
- 'I am mad but North-North-West'.
- What did Ben Jonson say which says about the universality of Hamlet?
- 'He was not of age, but for all time!'
- What quote shows Hamlet's, or possibly Shakespeare's, views on universal plays?
- 'For the play...pleased not the million...But it was - as I received it...an excellent play'.
- What quote shows the reason why Hamlet didn't kill Claudius while he was praying?'
- Claudius partaking the 'parging of the soul' whereas King Hamlet was killed 'with all his crimes broad blown'.
- Which quote shows that it is not universal?
- Anne Barton - At this time there was a feeling that 'private individuals cannot be blamed for taking vengeance into their own hands'.