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MIDTERM REVIEW Flashcards

1
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People who were in England before the Anglo Saxons

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Celts

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First type of Anglo Saxon literature

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Poetry

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Characteristics of Anglo Saxon poetry

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Heroism; brave deeds; devotion to glory; loyalty to King and family; reverence for women and nature; love of freedom; religious belief; fate

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Greatest Anglo Saxon poem

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Beowulf

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A metaphorical/descriptive term/phrase for something

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Kenning

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Words used with the same consonant sound

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Alliteration

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Pause or break in the middle of the line of poetry

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Caesura

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Anglo Saxon poet

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Scop

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Person who sings/recites poem

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Glee-man

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Basic plot of Beowulf

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It’s the land of the shield Danes, Beowulf goes and kills Grendel , the monster, rips grendels arm off and he dies and grendels mom gets mad so Beowulf has to kill her at the bottom of the lake and also becomes king of the shield Danes and has to kill a dragon .

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11
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Beowulf ; who is hrothgar?

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Kind of the shield Danes

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12
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Beowulf; who is Grendel ?

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The first monster that Beowulf kills bc he killed 30 men in heorot

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Beowulf; heorot?

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The hall or Meade hall

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14
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Ecclesiastical History of the English People; author ? Caedmons special gift or ability ?

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Author: Beade
Gift: turned bible stories into Anglo Saxon poetry

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15
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Influences on the English language during the Anglo Saxon period :

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Latin; Celtic; Scandinavian

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Influences on the English language during the medieval period :

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Latin and French which turned to Middle English

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17
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Founder of the English prose, because he is responsible for Latin literature being translated into Anglo Saxon ?

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Alfred the great

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18
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Poem or song that tells a story ? Examples ?

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Ballad; Bonny Barbara Allen, lord Randall

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19
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Chivalry

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Loyalty to King, family, and God; respect to women; honesty; courage; skilled with weapons; purity

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20
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Abound knights and kings and supernatural elements ? Examples ?

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Romance ; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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21
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Unrhymed iambic pentameter ?

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Blank verse

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Stories where main characters are animals ? Example ?

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Beast fable; nuns priest tale

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23
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Recorded all property in his kingdom?

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Domesday book

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24
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Story to teach a lesson? Example?

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Exemplum; pardoners tale

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25
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Political/social system to give out land for being loyal ?

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Feudalism

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26
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Author of Bonny Barbara Allen? What’s it about ?

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No author ; man loves a woman and she rejects him & he dies of a “broke heart” & she feels bad & dies.

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27
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Author of Edward? What’s it about ?

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No author; father dies because the mother makes Edward kill him .

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28
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Lord Randall author ? Who dies and who is responsible for it ?

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No author; Lord Randall dies because his lover poisoned him .

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29
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Morte Darthur Author ?
Name of knight who was with Arthur and what was he ordered to do ?
Where is Arthur going ?
Examples of code of chivalry ?

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Mallory
Bedivere; supposed to throw his sword in the lake but disobeys 2 times and finally does it the last time
Supposed to go to avilion
Loyalty to King

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30
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Author of Sir Gawain ?
Basic elements of plot ?
Examples of chivalry ?

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Pearl Poet
Basic plot: green guy comes in wanting to play a game
Examples of chivalry: loyalty to King ; respect for women; courage; skilled at weapons; honesty

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31
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Author of Canterbury tales ?
Rules of game that is played ?
Where are the pilgrims going ?
Types of people ?

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Chaucer
They all tell 4 stories and the who ever has the best story gets a free meal
They are going to Canterbury
People from all levels of life

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32
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What is the story of the pardoners tale ?

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Try to find death and kill him but they find treasure and end up killing each other

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33
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Know nuns priest tale

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Fox chicken and rooster

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34
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What important thing happened in 1066 and how did it affect literature in England ?

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William of Normandy invades England ; 1) language of the upper class changed to French 2) where we get Middle English

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35
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A young man dies of love for a woman and she dies of love for him the next day

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Bonny Barbara Allen

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36
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Take thou Excalibur , my good sword, and go with it yonder…

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Morte Darthur

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37
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Man beheaded in Christmas game and picks up head and walks off ?

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Sir Gawain and the green knight

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38
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Pilgrims go to visit tomb of Thomas a becket

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Canterbury tales

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39
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O I have killed my hawk so good , mither , mither , O I have killed my hawk so good …

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Edward

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40
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A dying King is taken away in a boat

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Morte Darthur

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41
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Two literary works that deal with stories of King Arthur or his Knights

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Morte Darthur ; Green knight

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42
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Chanticleer and Pertelote

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Nuns priest tale

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43
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A young man is poisoned by his sweet heart

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Lord Randall

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44
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Stories where people stand for ideas ? Example ?

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Allegory ; Fairie Queen

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45
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14 lines ; iambic pentameter ?

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Sonnet

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46
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Tells story by dialogue and action

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Drama

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47
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Measured rhythm by poem ? The different types ?

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Meter

Trochaic
Iambic
Dactylic
Anapestic

48
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Poem about rural life and shepherds ?

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Pastoral

49
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4 lines ?

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Quatrain

50
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2 lines ?

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Couplet

51
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Repition/correspondence of sound ?

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Rhyme

52
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English royal dynasty for most of this period ?

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The Tudor Dynasty

53
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English King who broke with the Roman Catholic Church and started the Church of England ?

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Henry the 8th

54
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Other names for Elizabethan period ?

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English reformation; English Renaissance; age of exploration

55
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Important types of literature during this period

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Sonnets; lyric poetry; secular drama; essay

56
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First English bible to be divided into verses ?

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Geneva bible

57
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Prayer book of the Anglican Church, written during the Tudor dynasty

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Book of common prayer

58
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English King who authorized the writing of an English translation of the bible in the early 1600s

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King James I

59
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Author of utopia ?

How is it an ideal society?

A

More

All houses looked the same; assigned people houses; take people from the cities to work on the farm for 2 years

60
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The faerie queen author ?
Type of literature ?
What does the Red Cross knight stand for ?
Basic plot ?

A

Spenser

Allegorical romance/romantic allegory

Red Cross knight stands for holiness

Setting out to rescue someone’s parents and gets to a cave with error in it (half woman half dragon)

61
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Dr Faustus author ?
Type of lit ?
Basic story and characters ?

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Marlowe

Drama

Makes a deal with the devil to have a perfect life for 24 years and then goes to hell for all of eternity

62
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Author of sonnet 29 ?

Poem is about ?

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Shakespeare

He is unsatisfied with his life until he thinks about his love

63
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Passionate shepherd to his love author ?
Type of poem ?
What poem is about ?

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Marlowe

Pastoral

Guy proposing to the girl he loves and telling her what he will give her

64
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Nymphs reply to the shepherd author ?
Type of poem ?
Message of the speaker in the poem ?
Replies to which other poem ?

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Raleigh

Pastoral

That these things will pass or fade away and that his love for her might not last

Passionate shepherd to his love

65
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Greatest sonnet writer and dramatist in the English lit?

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William Shakespeare

66
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“Come live with me and be my Love and we will all the pleasures prove …”

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Passionate shepherd to his love

67
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“Lo, Mephistophiles, for love of the I cut mine arm…”

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Dr Faustus

68
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“The youthful knight could not for aught be stayed, but forth into the dark some hole …”

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Faerie Queen

69
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” when in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes , I all alone be weep my outcast state…”

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Sonnet 29

70
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“But could youth last, and love still breede, had joys no date…”

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The nymphs reply

71
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Author of Macbeth?
Setting of the play?
Who was kin of England when this play was written in the 1600s?

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Shakespeare

Scotland

James I

72
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One person talking but is solo on stage ?

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Soliloquy

73
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One person talking but turns aside

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Aside

74
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The type of play that Macbeth is ?

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Tragedy

75
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1 word stage direction that indicates that 1 person leaves ?

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Exit

76
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1 word star direction that indicates multiple people leave ?

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Exeunt

77
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Where most of the action of Macbeth takes place ?

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Scotland; a war is going on

78
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Reasons why Macbeth shouldn’t murder the King ?

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Because of the consequences and he was a guest in his house

79
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Ways in which lady Macbeth helps her husband in the Kings murder

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She drugged the Kings men so they’d be asleep .
She planted the daggers.
He had the idea to kill him but she came up with the plan

80
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First prophecies that the witches to Macbeth ? What do they call him?

Banquo?

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Thane of Glamis; Thane of Cawdor; King hereafter

He will get kings

81
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First apparition the witches shows Macbeth and what it means ?

Second ?

Third ?

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First- a skull/head with a helmet that means “beware of macduff”

Second- Bloody Child; that no one born of woman can harm Macbeth.

Third- crowned child with a tree

82
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Who sits down unexpectedly at macbeths banquet and who notices this person ?

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Banquo; Macbeth notices him

83
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King at the beginning of Macbeth

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Duncan

84
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King at the end of Macbeth

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Malcolm

85
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Becomes king in the middle ofmacbeth ?

A

Macbeth

86
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Is told by the witches (Macbeth) that his descendants will be kings ?

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Banquo

87
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Becomes thane of Cawdor

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Macbeth

88
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Son of Duncan who flees to England ?

A

Malcolm

89
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Son of Duncan who flees to Ireland ?

A

Donalbane

90
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Is killed by hired hit men at the end of the horseback ride ? (Macbeth)

A

Banquo

91
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Macbeth: gives Malcolm 10,000 soldiers to help him against Macbeth ?

A

King of England (Edward)

92
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Macbeth: puts bloody daggers back next to the guards ?

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Lady Macbeth

93
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Macbeth: kills Duncan

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Macbeth

94
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Macbeth: Last person that Macbeth kills

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Young Siward

95
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Macbeth: person who sleepwalks

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Lady Macbeth

96
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Macbeth: person who kills Macbeth

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Macduff

97
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Macbeth: person whose wife and children are killed

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Macduff

98
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Macbeth: banquo’s son

A

Fleance

99
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“But screw your courage to the sticking place and we’ll not fail”

A

Lady Macbeth

100
Q

“Fair is foul and foul is fair…”

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The witches

101
Q

” double double toil and trouble…”

A

The witches

102
Q

“Oftentimes to win us to our harm the instruments of darkness tell us truths…”

A

Banquo

103
Q

“Life’s but a walking shadow…”

A

Macbeth

104
Q

“Me thought I heard a voice cry, sleep no more!…”

A

Macbeth

105
Q 
FOTR: 
How many rings in all?
How many rings for the elves ? 
For Dwarves? 
For mortal men?
For sauron?
A 
20 in all
3 for the elves
7 for the dwarves
9 for mortal men 
1 for sauron
106
Q

FOTR: the only person who had the ring for more than a few minutes and still gave it up of his own free will ?

A

Bilbo

107
Q

FOTR: Frodo’s gardener ?

A

Sam Gamgee

108
Q

FOTR: brings fireworks to Bilbo’s party ?

A

Gandalf

109
Q

FOTR: has the ring for many years , before Bilbo found it ?

A

Gollum

110
Q

FOTR: Bilbo’s heir ?

A

Frodo

111
Q

FOTR: rescues the hobbit from old man Willow and from the barrow ?

A

Tom Bombadil

112
Q

FOTR: gives frodo some mushrooms and a ride to the ferry ?

A

Farmer Maggot

113
Q

FOTR: get frodos house in crickhollow ready for him?

A

Fatty & merry

114
Q

FOTR: travels from hobbiton to crickhollow with frodo and Sam ?

A

Pippen

115
Q

FOTR: Gets trapped by old man willow ?

A

Merry & Pippen

116
Q

FOTR: made the one ring to rule them all ?

A

Sauron

117
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Three Anglo Saxon tribes that came to England in fifth century

A

Angles
Saxons
Jutes

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