English Final 2006 2
Terms
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- Topic sentence - where does it occur?
- first sentence
- Summarizing or concluding sentence - where?
- the end
- Transition word
- word that goes between sentences
- speaker
- like the narrator
- paraphrase
- restate in your own words
- ballad
- song or poem that tells a story
- simile
- comparision using like or as
- metaphor
- direct comparison of unlike things
- personification
- human like qualities given to objects or ideas
- symbol
- has concrete meaning & represents something
- rhythm
- succession of sounds
- meter
- the beat in a line of poetry
- onomatopoeia
- words that include sounds
- alliteration
- repetition of begining sounds
- narrative poetry
- poems that tell stories
- heroic couplet
- verse consisting of two rhymed lines in iambic pentameter
- assonance
- resemblance of sound especially of the vowel sounds
- consonance
- close correspondance of sounds
- lyric
- two line expresses intense personal emotion - singing
- sonnet
- 14 line verse
- quatrain
- stanza of 4 lines - Shakesperian sonnets are 3 quatrains and 1 couplet
- iambic
- common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with 5 feet or accents
- Shakespearean sonnet
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sonnet that uses
ABAB CDCDEFEF - pentameter
- line of verse consisting of 5 metrical feet
- octave
- stanzas with 8 lines
- verse
- single metrical line in a poetic composition
- rhyme
- words that have same ending sounds
- extended metaphor
- a metaphor that is extended through a stanza or entire poem often by multiple comparisions of unlike objects
- The "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost is written in
- iambic pentameter
- the speaker in the "Mending Wall" thinks that his neighbor is trapped by his father's tradition and that walls are not always needed
- Hi!
- "It is the star to every wand'ring bark." Is an example of
- metaphor
- From the sonnet, know that love does not diminish with time
- hi!
- know the format of a Shakespearean sonnet
- ABAC CDCDEFEF
- "You wet brown bag of a woman" is an example of
- metaphor
- Shakespeare born...
- April 23, 1564
- What does Romeo mean when he says "Arise, fair sun and kill the envious moon."
- ?
- Where was Shakespeare born?
- Stratford Upon Avon
- Name two of Shakespeare's jobs
- writer & actor
- what were the standing spectators called?
- groundlings
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what was the cause of Romeo & Juliet's misfortune?
a) fate
b) bad decisions
c) Paris
d) Nurse - fate
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Mercutio's Queen Mab speech is an example of
a) monologue
b) dialogue
c) aside
d) soliloquy - monologue
- Friar Laurence's speech about herbs (alone on stage)is a...
- soliloquy
- What did Queen Mab bring at night or when people slept?
- dreams
- what genre (kind of writing) is Romeo & Juliet?
- tragedy
- when did Shakespear die?
- 1616
- who prepares the audience for the play?
- chorus
- who fights Benvolio at the play's beginning?
- Tybalt
- when did the feud between the two families begin?
- it doesn't say
- Who does Romeo kill?
- Tybalt & Paris
- Why does Capulet tell Paris "no" to marrying Juliet initially?
- she is too young
- who does Tybalt sla\y or kill?
- Mercutio
- From whom does Romeo buy his poison?
- the Apothecary
- Where is the play set?
- Verona, Italy
- What does the Nurse tell Juliet to do after Romeo is banished, which forces her to confide in Friar Laurence?
- to marry Paris
- Name three reasons why Juliet is fearful of taking the poison
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1) she doesn't want to die
2) Romeo might not come
3) she might not see Romeo - Who said? "Oh, I am slain! If thou be merciful/ Open the tomb lay me with Juliet"?
- Paris
- Why does Romeo not get the message?
- The Friar is held up by disease (the plague)
- "Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health"
- Romeo
- "A plague o' both your houses"
- Mercutio
- "He jests at scars that never felt a wound"
- Romeo
- "My only love, sprung from my only hate!"
- Juliet
- "And in this state she gallops night by night/ Through lovers' brains, and they dream of love."
- Mercutio
- "But woo her, gentle Paris, get heart; My will to her consent is but a part."
- Capulet
- "I beg for justice, which thou, Prince, must give./ Romeo slew Tybalt; Romeo must not live."
- Lady Capulet
- "Romeo, the love I bear thee can affortd/ No better term than this; thou art a villain."
- Tybalt
- "With baleful weeds and precous-juiced flowers./The earth that's nature's mother is her tomb,/What is her buyring grave, that is her womb."
- Friar Laurence
- "Thus with a kiss I die."
- Romeo
- "Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast."
- Friar Laurence
- "The law, that threatened death, becomes thy friend/And turns it to exile."
- Friar Laurence
- "O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face!/Did the dragon keep so fair a cave?/Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical!"
- Juliet
- "I think it best you marry with the County./O he's a lovely gentlemant."
- Nurse
- "Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,/having some business, do entreat her eyes/To twinkle in their spheres till they return."
- Romeo
- "If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep,/my dreams presage some joyful news at hand."
- Romeo
- Where is the story set in TKAM?
- Maycomb, Alabama
- In which decade does the story occur
- 1930's
- Who is the author?
- Harper Lee
- Who is the most open-minded woman in the neighborhood?
- Miss Maudie
- What is Maycomb's usual disease?
- Racism
- Which neighborhood woman didi Atticus think was courageous?
- Mrs. Dubose
- Why did Atticus think this?
- She fought a morphine addiction
- Why does Atticus believe that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird?
- because they don't do anything but make people happy with their lovely sounds
- Why is Dophus Raymond considered unusual besides the fact that he pretends to be a drunk?
- he is married to a black woman
- What do Atticus' questions to Bob Ewell, Mayella Ewell and Tom Robinson make clear?
- that Bob Ewell beat his daughter
- When Tom said that he felt sorry for Mayella, he knew that he had made a mistake. What was his mistake?
- black people don't feel sorry for white people
- What "bill" were white people going to pay according to Atticus? That black people would...
- rebel
- Bob Ewell died because he ??? according to Heck Tate.
- had an accident
- During what period in history does the story take place?
- the great depression
- Social prejudice, gender issues and justice vs. injustice all play a part in the story
- hi!
- how does Boo see the children?
- through his window & as his own
- Racial prejudice, coming of age and the need to understand those different from ouselves are all ??? in the story.
- themes
- ???? and ???? are the story's mockingbirds.
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Tom Robinson
Boo Radley - grudge
- deep dislike
- enmity
- hatred
- augment
- to increase
- effeminate
- womanly
- beseech
- beg