Yr 12 Sem 1

Question 1

AOI Fem - phallogocentric views of his wife (oxymoron)

Answer 1

“And he contemplated her absorbed young face with a thrill of possersorship in which pride in his own masculine initiation was mingled with tender reverence for her abysmal purity.”

Question 2

AOI Fem - Double standard (irony in society) after looking back on his affairs

Answer 2

“all shared Mrs Archer’s belief that when “such things happened” it was undoubtedly foolish of the man, but somehow always criminal of the woman.”

Question 3

AOI Fem - Newland’s view (simile) of May (May knows about Ellen, not as naive as he thinks)

Answer 3

“Her [May’s] voice was as clear as a bell, and full of wifely solitude

Question 4

AOI Anthro - Contrast - referred to connotatively as ‘tribes’

Answer 4

“New York, as far back as the mind of man could travel, had been divided into two great fundamental groups of the Mingotts and Mansons and all their clan who cared about eating, clothes and money and the Archer - Newland - Van-der-Luyden tribe, who were devoted to travel and looked down on the grosser forms of pleasure.”

Question 5

AOI Anthro - Evolution theory (metaphor of women)

Answer 5

“Kentucky cave fish, which had ceased to develop eyes because they had no use for them”

Question 6

AOI Dom - Imagery of society evolving - retains primitive elements if useful (survival)

Answer 6

“The New York of Newland Archer’s day was a small and slippery pyramid, in which, as yet, hardly a fissure had been made or a foothold gained.”

Question 7

Tempest Rev - Divine justice (God/fate having brought enemies into Prospero’s power)

Answer 7

“by accident most strange, bountiful Fortune, now my dear lady, hath mine enemies brought to this shore”

Question 8

Tempest Rev - reveals he created tempest (connotative language like ‘mutinous’ to personify the wind as his army

Answer 8

“bedimmed the noontide sun, called forth the mutinous winds, and twixt the green sea and the azured vault set roaring war”

Question 9

Tempest Rev - protagonists rejection of revenge thus promoting christian value. (alliteration)

Answer 9

“They being pertinent, the sole drift of my purpose doth extend not a frown further.”

Question 10

Tempest Pow - Crown synecdoche of power (manipulates seb) Antonio

Answer 10

“Th’occasion speaks thee, and my strong imagination sees a crown dropping upon thy head”

Question 11

Tempest Pow - Caliban idolises - offers

Answer 11

“kiss thy foot”

Question 12

Tempest Pow - Trinculo in an aside describes Caliban

Answer 12

“a most ridiculous monster, to make wonder of a poor drunkard.”

Question 13

Tempest Free - Prospero questions Ariel

Answer 13

“Dost thou forget what torment did i free thee?”

Question 14

Tempest Free - Calibans song ending, two rhyming couplets.

Answer 14

“Ban, ban Ca-caliban has a new master - get a new man

Question 15

Tempest Free - Speaks the line after singing - repetition

Answer 15

“Freedom, high-day, high-day freedom, freedom high-day, freedom.

Question 16

AOI Anthro - allusion to tribal ways

Answer 16

“What was or was not “the thing” played a part as important in Newland Archer’s New York as the inscrutable totem terrors that had ruled the destinies of his forefathers thousands of years ago. “

Question 17

AOI Dom - the worst thing to Newland

Answer 17

“Few things seemed to Newland Archer more awful than an offense against “Taste,” that far-off divinity of whom “Form” was the mere visible representative and viceregent.”

Question 18

AOI Dom - Juxtaposition/contradictory - with people to be lonely

Answer 18

“Does no one want to know the truth here, Mr Archer? The real loneliness is living among all these people who ask one to pretend”