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final exam
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25
English
12th Grade
04/01/2008

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source of the title?

why appropriate?

Definition

comes from shakespeare's macbeth

 

one's life will be a zero if you choose to act like the compson's

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original title?

why appropriate?

Definition

twilight

 

benjy is in btw reconciliation and loss

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year of faulkner's birth?
Definition

1897

Term
what is WF hometown?
Definition
oxford, mississippi
Term
name of fictional town
Definition
jefferson, mississippi
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what is the name of WF county?
Definition
LaFayette
Term
name of fictional county?
Definition
yaknapatofa
Term
narrative technique in benjy's and quentin sections?
Definition
stream of conciousness
Term
elements of technique in stream of consciousness?
Definition
leaving out punctuation, omission of capital letters, flashbacks, repitition, no transitions
Term
famous example of stream of conciousness?
Definition
Ulysses by james joyce
Term
how does wf express loss in benjy's section?
Definition
caddy leaving, the quarter, golf ball, horse and damuddy dying, sold pasture
Term
tragic fall in benjy section?
Definition
caddy falling in mud
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sig of caddy and branch scene?
Definition
future promiscuity, future independence, outside the law
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later in the day at the branch scene?
Definition
experience tragedy-caddy, damuddy's death, brothers see "da muddy" caddy
Term
why days of week important?
Definition

saturday-benjy-day in btw

friday-jason-the good has been nailed to the cross

easter sunday-dilsey-good of family, return of qualities dilsey embodies

Term
most important abstract qualities the unfallen caddy shows?
Definition
love, justice, understanding, encouragement, and patience
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quentin's social bg increase sense of failure?
Definition
he thinks he is the southern man and he should always protect, he is the master, "knight in shining armor"
Term
how is quentin guilty of hubris?
Definition
he places himself outside of the world through suicide
Term

key smells in each section

4 smells

Definition

jason- gasoline-car, modern world

quentin- honeysuckle-sexuality

benjy-trees-caddy's naturalness

dilsey-no smell

Term

when did wf die?

Definition
1962
Term
how is jason an image of the 20th century man's sins?
Definition

tends to put money as first priority

Term
how does wf provide reconciliation in dilsey section?
Definition
shegog's sermon, bring back or recollect good qualities, recollect everything caddy wuz
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how is the ending of the novel in the work ironic contrast to the ening of a shakespearean tragedy?
Definition
Term
how does wf temper dilsey section with irony and realism to avios sentimental, unreal ending?
Definition
jason is still in control, caddy does not come back, no happy ending
Term

key tragic images and examples from novel?

9

Definition

the dynastic mansion-compson house

the loss of the garden- selling benjy's pasture

the denial of feminine powers-caddy

the deadly waters-quentin's suicide

the element of earth-smells, caddy-trees

the appearance vs. hidden realisy of corruption- wedding, jason

the rude of fate-started with a man named doom

the problem of time-quentin

the ultimate tragic fact of human life's fate-nobody's perfect

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