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What are the four types of conflict?

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  1. Person vs. person
  2. Person vs. self
  3. Person vs. environment
  4. Person vs. technology
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What are the five elements of a plot?

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  1. Exposition
  2. Rising action
  3. Climax
  4. Falling action
  5. Resolution
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What is a protagonist?

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Central character of a story

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What is an antagonist?

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Character or force that is opposed to the protagonist

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What is the theme?

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The central idea or a story

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What is the setting?

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The time and place of a story

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What is 1st person point of view?

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When a character within the story narrates

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What is omniscient point of view?

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The storyteller’s knowledge extends to the internal states of all the characters

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What is a thesis?

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The central idea of an essay

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What is paraphrasing?

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Putting something in your own words

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What is the relationship between a poem’s subject and the theme?

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The theme reveals something important about the subject

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What is tone?

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The author’s perspective of the text

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What is mood?

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The emotions the reader feels from reading the text

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What is a shift in a poem?

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Any change in the poem in its message or context

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What is personification?

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Where a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics

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What is an extended metaphor?

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It’s developed at length and involves several points of comparison

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What is imagery?

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The descriptive language used to recreate sensory experiences

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What is alliteration?

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The repetition of the initial consonant

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What is rhyme scheme?

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The regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem of stanza

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What is a metaphor?

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A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else

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What is a simile?

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A figure of speech that compares two apparently different things using like or as

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What are the five main symbols in LotF? Explain their symbolism.

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  1. Island- garden of Eden
  2. Glasses- knowledge
  3. Conch- order
  4. Pig head- evil inside everyone
  5. Fire- hope and destruction
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What is Golding’s commentary on the nature of mankind in LotF?

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Mankind is evil

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In what ways do Jack and Ralph reflect the different extremes of human nature?

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Ralph goes for democracy, Jack goes for dictatorship

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How does Simon function as a Christ figure?

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He comes to tell the good news and gets killed; only innocent character

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What is deus ex machine and how does the ending of LotF exemplify this storytelling technique?

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God from machine; a random character comes in and fixes everything; the navy captain comes and saves them; from Greek and Roman tragedies

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Who were the Anglo Saxons?

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Germanic warriors that invaded England and ruled until 1066

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What version of English did they speak?

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Old English

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How did the Anglo Saxons spread stories and tales in their day?

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Oral tradition

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What is the significance of Beowulf to the English language?

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It’s the first recorded work in English

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Why is Beowulf considered an epic?

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Because of its length

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Who were the Normans and when did they invade?

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From North France; invaded in 1066

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Where was the divisive battle of the war fought?

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Hastings

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What is heroic poetry?

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Poetry about a hero

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What is elegiac poetry?

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Poetry lamenting the death of a loved one

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What does Beowulf reveal about the Anglo Saxon’s view of fate and religion?

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It struggled with dual identity mixing Christianity and Catholicism

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What is a kenning?

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A subject with 2 adjectives

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What language was spoken in England during the Middle Ages?

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Middle English

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Who wrote the Canterbury tales?

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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What was Chaucer’s criticism of pilgrims and the church?

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Pilgrims didn’t take religious journeys seriously; the church is hypocritical

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What is the basic structure of the Canterbury tales in terms of the contest and the historical context of the book?

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Each told 2 stories there, two back, whoever won got a feast. The pilgrimages were to the tomb of Thomas á Becket, a bishop of Canterbury who was assassinated

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What are the 4 elements of a tragedy?

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  1. Hero- high to low in society usually ending in death
  2. Human greatness
  3. Ends tragically, teaching a lesson
  4. Arouses fear, pity, and awe
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What is a sonnet?

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A 14 line poem in iambic pentameter; covers a single theme

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What is an octave?

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8 lime stanza

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What is a quatrain?

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4 line stanza

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What is a couplet?

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Two line stanza

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What is a sonnet sequence?

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Sonnets organized by theme

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What is a sestet?

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A six line stanza

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What is imagery?

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Sensory detail

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What is Petrarchan rhyme scheme?

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Abba abba cdecde

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What is Spenserian rhyme scheme?

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Abab bcbc cdcd ee

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What is Shakespearian rhyme scheme?

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Abab cdcd efef gg

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How many lines does a sonnet have?

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14

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What us iambic pentameter?

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5 pairs of 2 syllables; 2nd syllable in each pair is stressed

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How many stressed syllables are in a line of iambic pentameter poetry?

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5

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Which comes first, stressed or unstressed syllables?

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Unstressed

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In sonnets, what is the purpose of the first several lines and the last few lines?

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First lines present a problem, the last lines present a resolution/solution

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What is pastoral poetry?

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It celebrates simple life in the country

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What is an example of pastoral imagery in The Passionate Shepherd?

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I will make thee a bed of roses

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How does The Passionate Shepherd exemplify pastoral poetry?

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Glorifies nature, speaker is a shepherd

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Thematically, how does The Nymph’s Reply answer the shepherd’s request?

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Love will fade

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How did the authors of these two poems know each other?

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They lived in the same period

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