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English IV Mid-Term 2010
Beowulf- Macbeth
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English
12th Grade
03/24/2010

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449-1066
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The Anglo-Saxon Period's start and end date
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England
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The small, isolated country that is nevertheless the orgin of a leagal and political system that other countries, including the U.S, have imitated.
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The grouop that was led by julius Ceasar and ramained in Britain for more than four hundred years
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Romans
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Rather than with mysticism even through it was heavily pagan, the Anglo-Saxon religion was concerend mostly with what?
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Ethics
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What was a hero's consolation against death that was provided by the poets?
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imortalized by sond and poetry.
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Unknown
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Beowulf was written by...
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An epic
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A long narrative about the adventures of a larger-than-life character
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The central figure in a long naratice that reflects the values and ideals fo a particular society
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epic hero
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Cane
Definition
Grendel was considered to be a descendant of him
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Leaves familure, self sacrifice, pays a price, returns to the ordinary
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the characteristics of the archetypal hero
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warrior that has pledged allegiance to the king and swore to protect him
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A Thane
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Two poetic devices that assisted the Anglo-Saxon poet in remembering and communication their stories to their audiences
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kennings and aliteration
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poetic device- metophorical phrase or compund word that's used to indirectly name a noun
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kenning
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gas-guzzlers
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kenning example
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house-of-scholars
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kenning example
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onld enflish
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the form of english spoken during the Anglo-Saxon period
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feudalism
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the pyramid system of power that is also known as a caste system
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the feudalism system was based upon this concept
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religious system of hiarchy
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childbearing, housework, look after home and land while husband was away
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the role of women in medieval society
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chivalry
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what led to an idealized attitude toward women and gave rise to a new form o fliterature, the romance.
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what weakened the political power of the church and laid the groundwork for later English constitutional law
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magna carta
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the magna carta laid the ground work for what?
Definition
later English Constitutional law.
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the black plague
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a great happening that created a labor shortage that contributed to the end of feudalism and the the passing of the middle ages.
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Why was Thomas A Becket martyred?
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he sided with the pope and went against the king.
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geoffrey chaucer
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Father of english poetry
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iambic pantameter
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the metrical form chaucer used in the canterbury tales.
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What were the Canterbury Tales about?
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People on a pilgramige to visit the shrine of Thomas A Bechet.
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The name given to a stroy that includes any number of different narratives within it.
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frame story
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satire
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The stle that chaucer wrtoe in that was used to make fun of identifiable follies
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satire was used to make fun of what?
Definition
identifiable human follies
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characterization
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the literary technique that reveals the personality of the character
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the style of English that was used during this period [the period of chaucer]
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middle english
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the kind of person the Pardoner was
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Greedy, averice, a drunk, crousing
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He told a story of how greed will kill you, and the Pardoner was very greedy, too.
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what was teh irony of the tale that the Pardoner told the other pilgrims with whom he was traveling.
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The contrast between what's expected and what's reality
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irony
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three sisters of fate:
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Atropos, Clotho, Lechesis
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Lechesis
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the sister who deturmined the length of the thread
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atropos
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the sister who cut the thread
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clotho
Definition
the sister who spun the thread
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where do the three sisters of fate live?
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olympus
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Zeus
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the father of the three sisters of fate
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a predeturmined destiny
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fate
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faith
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beliefe or trust
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free will
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independent choice
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a seeming contraction that is actually true.
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paradox
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fair is foul and foul is fair
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example of a paradox
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modern english
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shakespear wrote in this form of english
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tragic hero
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someone hightly ranked/main character that comes to an unhapy ending
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the play Macbeth was based upon shakespeare's study of...
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...the chronicles of England, Ireland, and Scotland writen by Rafiel Holinshed
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things are not always what they seem
Definition
this is meant by this statement: "fair is foul and foul is fair."
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macbeth wants to become king
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why does macbeth kill the king (Duncan)?
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comes back from the dead to haunt macbeth
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banquo
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lady says that macbeth is too kind to do what is needed to become king. she is very wicked
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what is said about macbeth's character to help convince him and how is it juxtaposed with the nature of lady macbeth?
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encourages and convinces macbeth to commit the crime
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lady macbeth
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the people who killed banquo
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the, at first 2, then 3, murders macbeth hired.
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who is responsible for banquo's death
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macbeth
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reason banquo was killed
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macbeth was suspisious that banquo might try and kill him, like he did to duncan to become king.
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the was macbeth is discribed by the wounded captian in the begining of the story
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brave, valiant, a great warrior, noble.
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the blood's significance in the captians' description
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to show how though and brave and valient macbeth is.
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the prediction that the withc sisters greet macbeth with when they first meet him.
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thane of glamis, thane of cawder, future king.
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reason for acting so suddenly and not waiting to kill banquo.
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macbeth and lady macbeth were both impatient and watnted to be king and queen NOW.
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lady macbeth's role in the muder and coverup of banquo
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lady macbeth got the garuds drunk. she thought up the plan and smeared blook. after, she acted like she knew nothing.
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Macbeth can't sleep; can't get the blood off his hands.
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an example of a line that proves macbeth's internal conflist about having commited these murders.
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machbeth is the new king. he was afraid of death, macbeth is his friend. Banquo's son was becoming king.
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why banquo never tells anyone of his thought that macbeth is the culprit that committed the murder of king duncan.
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metonmy
Definition
a figure of speech when something closely related to a thing is replaced with the thing, itself.
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example of metnomy
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norway himself
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reversal in the order of words in 2 otherwise parallel phrases
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chiasmus
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an example of chiasmus
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fair is foul and foul is fair
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