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LIT FINAL Flashcards

1
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How many plays did shakespeare write?

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37

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During the Renaissance, what type of human love was considered the highest and most spiritual?

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platonic

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the typical Shakespearean sonnet is composed of what four divisions?

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three quatrains and a couplet

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What is the typical shakespearean rhyme scheme?

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ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

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In sonnet 18 (“shall I compare thee…), what does Shakespeare discuss the superiority of his loved one to?

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The lovliness of nature

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In Sonnet 73 (the time of year…), what does shakespeare compare old age to?

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a dying fire, the fall season, a sunset

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Macbeth resembles what type of midieval drama?

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tragedy plays

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What are the reasons as to why Shakespeare used witches rather than devils in Macbeth?

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Because of their relevance, witches would’ve intended the effect

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what quotation introduces the theme of an upside down world?

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fair is fowl and fowl is fair

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10
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what images of evil are prominently associated with Duncan’s murder?

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night, the raven, blood

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which of the witches’ profecies about Macbeth is the only one not fulfilled by the end of Act 1

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He would be king

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What statement of the end of the play is not true?

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Macbeth shows greater remorse than does Lady Macbeth

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What is the primary function of the Porter (“knock, knock, knock”) in Act II?

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to provide comic relief for the audience

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who has served as a foil to Macbeth up to Act III of the play?

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Banquo

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15
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Macbeth’s soliloquy at the start of Act II is prompted by what?

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the sight of an imaginary deer

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what are Macbeth’s motives for murdering Banquo?

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Banquo’s royal nature, bravery and wisdom

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17
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The appearance of Banquo’s ghost at the banquet in his honor is an example of what type of irony?

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situational

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Macbeth’s visit to what place reflects his belief that he is not able to retreat from his course of evil?

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The witches’ cave

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19
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Macbeth’s actions disrupt what?

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nature, society, and the family

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20
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According to hectate, what is “mortals’ chiefest enemy”?

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overconfidence

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21
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Seeing Ross in England, Macduff reveals his priorities by asking what?

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First about his country, second about his wife, and last about his children

22
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What prevents Macduff from getting complete revenge on Macbeth?

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Macbeth has no children

23
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What does Lady Macbeth have by her at all times in Act V?

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a light

24
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In his “Tomorrow” speech, Macbeth describes life as what?

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A candle, a shadow, and an actor

25
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Who is speaking to whom in the following quotation: “fail not our feast”?

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Macbeth to Banquo

26
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True or False: Shakespeare’s great history plays were written during the first half of his career

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false

27
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True or False: During his lifetime, Shakespeare achieved a great reputation but not financial success

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true

28
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True or False: The witches alone are able to destroy Macbeth with their own powers

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False

29
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True or False: Lady Macbeth cannot kill Duncan because she is “too full o’ the milk of human kindness”

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False

30
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True or False: Macbeth says that his mind is full of vipers a symbol of treachery

A

False (scorpions)

31
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True or False: the king that Macbeth sees carrying a ,mirror in the witches’ cave represents King James

A

True

32
Q

the most accurate assessment of the middle ages is that the period was what?

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a time of dyanmic change

33
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what became the language of the ruling class and business after the norman invasion?

A

French

34
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the actiona that contributed most to the development of Old English as a witten language was what?

A

the introduction of the Latin alphabet

35
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What are the common feature of Old English poetry?

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irony alliteration variation

36
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King Edwin’s counselor uses the illustration of the sparrow to portray what?

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the brevity of life

37
Q

the subject of “Caedmon’s Hymn” is what?

A

creation

38
Q

in Beowulf, the Danes are being assulted by Grendel because of what sin?

A

pride

39
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one evidence of the mixing of pagan and christian elements in beowulf is what?

A

the confusion of Wyrd as Providence

40
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the anglo-saxon term for fate is what?

A

wyrd

41
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which word best describes the attitude of the shield and the weathercock inthe anglo saxon eiddles?

A

resigned

42
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according to The Anglo Saxon Chronicle, which word best describes William the Conqueror as a ruler

A

severe

43
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Old English literature reacted primarily against the _______threat to society while Middle English literature sought to remedu the ____threat to society

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external; internal

44
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which writers most influenced Middle English poets who wrote for sophisticated audiences?

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French

45
Q

In “For the Order of the Priesthood”, Wycliffe taught that the primary requirement for the clergy is what?

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a godly lifestyle

46
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In the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer’s use of a pilgrimage was appropriate for what reasons?

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he structurally united a variety pf tales in a single compsition; It provided a vehicle for social commentary by bringing together people from all walks of society; it brought together a variety of people with universal character traits

47
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by saying that the Prioress “was not undergrown. as all could see”, chauer uses what literary term?

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understatement

48
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what ballad is not concerned with death?

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Get Up and Bar the Door

49
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Sir Thomas Mallory’s Morte’d Arthur is an example pf what?

A

a medieval romance

50
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which of these elements in the Nun’s Priest’s Talealludes to the biblical story of man’s fall?

A

the reference to march

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