Macbeth
YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO RECALL EXAMPLES FROM EACH OF THE BOOKS/PLAYS/FILMS STUDIED TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ON THE EXAM. QUOTES DO NOT HAVE TO BE WORD FOR WORD:
Example - When looking at a soliloquy in Macbeth, one can regard the instances in which Lady Macbeth and Macbeth are speaking to themselves without an audience except for the readers. Macbeth's soliloquy "Dagger in the mind" is about his struggle with his murderous act upon King Duncan and he begins hallucinating. Lady Macbeth, upon opening the letter from her husband, begins asking spirits and evil entities to "make thick my blood" and "unsex me here" so that she may find it within herself to commit such evil acts with Macbeth.
IN THIS EXAMPLE ABOVE, YOU DON'T NEED TO SPECIFICALLY STATE THE ACT OR LINE NUMBERS BUT IT SHOULD BE EVIDENT THAT YOU HAVE READ THE PLAY AND CAN RECALL EVENTS LIKE SO WHEN NEEDED.
1) Elizabethan Drama:
2) Tragedy:
- Act I, Act II, Shakespearean Climax, Act III, Act IV, Act V
3) Aside:
4) Soliloquy:
5) Prophecy:
6) Paradox:
7) Hamartia
8) Hubris:
9) Divine Right of Rule:
10) Internal Conflict:
11) External Conflict:
12) Comic Relief:
13) Anadiplosis (Greek for "doubling"):
14) Foil
THEMATIC IDEAS:
Be sure you can define and explain the significance of each theme
.15) Weather/Supernatural:
16) Fate vs. Free Will:
17) Appearance vs. Reality:
18) Ambition:
19) Manhood/Masculinity
1984:
1) Newspeak
2) Propaganda/slogans
3) Dystopia
4) Relationship between Julia and Winston
5) Reality is in the mind
6) Society & government
7) Allegory
8) Satire
9) Totalitariansim
10) Language and mind control (manipulation)
11) Doublethink
12) Big Brother - what is it? what does it represent?
Short Stories:
1) Story mountain and what each part means (exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution)
2) Metaphor/simile
3) 4 types of characters (round, dynamic, flat, static)
4) Characterization
5) Setting/atmosphere
6) Personification
7) Irony
8) Fables
9) Tone/Mood
10) Themes - what are they?
11) Themes of: Hills like White Elephants, The Lottery, The Chaser- what do we learn from them? What do they represent?
12) Foreshadowing/flashback
13) Types of conflict - person vs: themselves, person, nature, society, supernatural
14) Short story terms: assonance, consonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, juxtaposition, metonymy, synecdoche, apostrophe, motif, enjambment, allusion, peripeteia, allegory
Poetry:
1) Rhythm/meter
2) Poetic feet
3) Types of pentameter - iambic, trochaic, dactylic, spondaic, anapestic
4) Monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter
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