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IOBE Key Moments Flashcards

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What are the key scenes?

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  1. cigarette case
  2. mock engagement
  3. Jack’s interrogation
  4. Jack in mourning
  5. Cecily’s diary
  6. the tea scene
  7. muffin scene
  8. Cecily is interviewed
  9. Jack’s identity is revealed
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1 - key characters

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Jack and Algy

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1 - elements of comedy

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  1. Jack begins his role of the ingenue
  2. the unearnestness of the characters is introduced
  3. mocking of marriage
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1 - quotations

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  1. a very ungentlemanly thing
  2. some aunts are tall, some aunts are not tall
  3. repetition of ‘earnest’
  4. if you ever get married + you will be very glad to know Bunbury
  5. three is a company and two is none
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1 - comedic devices

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  1. torture of the ingenue
  2. irony
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2 - characters

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Jack and Gwendolen

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2 - elements of comedy

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  1. inversion of gender stereotypes
  2. mocking of marriage
  3. Jack as the ingenue
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2 - quotations

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  1. produces vibrations
  2. i must get christened at once
  3. may I propose to you now?
  4. [goes on his knees]
  5. I knew I was destined to love you
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2 - comedic devices

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  1. physical comedy
  2. bawdy humour
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3 - characters

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Jack and Lady Bracknell

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3 - elements of comedy

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  1. trivial desires
  2. paradoxical reversal of standards
  3. comic disbelief
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3 - key quotations

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  1. a hand bag !
  2. do you smoke?
  3. form an alliance with a parcel
  4. the unfashionable side
  5. ignorance is like a delicate, exotic fruit, touch it the bloom is gone
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3 - comedic devices

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  1. subversion of stereotypes
  2. comedic climax, torture of ingenue
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4 - characters

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Jack, Miss Prism, Chasuble, Cecily

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4 - elements of comedy

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  1. mockery of the dead, desensitisation
  2. hyperbolic behaviour
  3. false morals
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4 - quotations

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  1. dead!
  2. he died abroad; in Paris
  3. as a man sows, so shall he reap
  4. people who live entirely for pleasure usually are (unmarried)
  5. adapted to almost any occasion
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4 - comedic devices

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  1. stichomythia
  2. physical comedy of mourning regalia
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5 - key characters

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Cecily and Algy

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5 - elements of comedy

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  1. gender inversions, Cecily’s driving force
  2. the melodramatic superficiality of love
  3. trviality
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5 - quotations

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  1. one should speak fluently and not cough
  2. wildly, passionately, devotedly, hopelessly
  3. a girlish dream of mine to love some one whose name was Earnest
  4. my own sweet Cecily
  5. I can hardly read them without crying a little
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5 - comedic devices

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  1. repetition
  2. hyperboles
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6 - key characters

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Gwendolen and Cecily

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6 - elements of comedy

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  1. Cecily and Gwendolen match linguistic abilities
  2. change of behaviour around the servants
  3. comic rivalry
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6 - quotations

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  1. a friendship quite like ours
  2. i suppose that is why you live in town?
  3. agricultural depression
  4. detestable girl [aside]
  5. my first impressions of people are never wrong
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6 - comedic devices

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  1. melodramatic behaviour
  2. repetition
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7 - characters

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Jack and Algy

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7 - elements of comedy

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  1. comic rivalry
  2. gluttony, trivial concerns
  3. false earnestness
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7 - quotations

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  1. perfectly heartless
  2. I love her + I adore her
  3. I never go without my dinner
  4. but I have not been christened for years
  5. eating is the only thing that consoles me
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8 - characters

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Lady Bracknell, Cecily, Jack

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8 - elements of comedy

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  1. Lady Bracknell’s mercenary values and mask slip
  2. Jack reclaiming power over Lady Bracknell
  3. double standards
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8 - key quotations

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  1. Bunbury? Oh he was quite exploded
  2. [bows coldly]
  3. a hundred and thirty thousand pounds
  4. Cecily, you may now kiss me
  5. I absolutely decline to give
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8 - comedic devices

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  1. physical comedy
  2. hypocricy
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8 - comedic devices

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  1. physical comedy
  2. hypocrisy
34
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9 - characters

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All

35
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9 - elements of comedy

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  1. happy resolution
  2. slow torture of ingenue
  3. Miss Prism’s reveal
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9 - quotations

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  1. Algernon’s older brother
  2. This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last
  3. explosion of a temperance beverage
  4. I am unmarried
  5. The vital importance of being Earnest
  6. at last!
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9 - comedic devices

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  1. happy ending
  2. attitudes to marriage

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