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Honors Freshman English Final
Over Mythology, The Illiad/Odyssey, Poetry, Till We Have Faces, Macbeth, MLA
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English
9th Grade
05/20/2012

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Define and give an example of Storge in till we have faces.
Definition
Storge; Affectionate love, one that is found between a mother and child. Example is between Orual and Psyche, spoken by Orual: "More times than I could count that night, I had the wish... to recross the cold water... that she was not to light the lamp... that I had advised her wrongly" (Lewis 169).
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Define and give an example of Philia in till we have faces.
Definition
Philia: Friendship love. Example is between Orual and Lysias, spoken by Orual: "I knew you stayed only in pity for love for me. I knew you were breaking your heart for the greeklands. I ought to have sent you away" (Lewis 296).
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Define and give an example of Agape in till we have faces
Definition
Agape: Love for god and charity. Example is between Glome and Ungit. "She was with child as soon as anyone could...about the prince who was to be born. We made great sacrifices to Ungit every month after" (Lewis 13).
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Define and give an example of Eros in till we have faces
Definition

Eros: romantic love shared between two people. Example is a fantasy of Orual's involving a romantic relationship between her and Psyche: "The steadiness of her gaze, the beauty of her, so full of pity yet in a way so pitiless, mde me dumb for a moment (Lewis 124).

 

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What is the purpose of Lysias as a character?
Definition
To teach Orual logic
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Why does C.S. Lewis sometimes make Psyche refer to Orual as "Maia"?
Definition
The name shows Orual's better, non-emotional qualities. Maia is used in context as "mother".
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Define Rhetoric:
Definition
using speech and language perfectly
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What is the purpose of the veil Orual when she becomes queen?
Definition
Used to symbolize shame and mourning. Enables her to repress herself, facing others, and the truth.
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Hubris?
Definition
Excessive pride, arrogance.
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What is the symbolism of water?
Definition
Representation of change. Orual crosses the river and her relationship changes with Psyche.
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Explain the importance of Orual attempting to take Psyche's place as tribute?

 

Definition
This is an unselfish act. When Trom hears of this, he begins to make fun of her ugliness and shows her a mirror. This begins Orual's obsession with Physical appearance.
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Explain what happens during Orual's strange dreams/visions.
Definition
Orual dreams of her father in the pillar room. She admits that she is ungit. She devoured all whom she loved.
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What is the importance of Orual's meeting w/ansit?
Definition
She realizes that she has worked Bardia to death. She realizes her selfishness.
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Give an example of a paradox in this story:
Definition
Orual's complaint was the answer that the god's gave her.
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Narrative Poetry?
Definition
Peom written like a short story but in verse form.
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Dramatic Poetry?
Definition
Uses dialogue, like a play
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Lyric Poetry?
Definition
Musical verse w/emotions
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Inversion
Definition
Reversal of normal grammar in a sentence, usually for emphasis.
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Personification
Definition
Human qualities attributed to non-human objects.
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Meter
Definition
Pattern of stressed and unstressed symbols
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Assonance
Definition
Like alliteration, except different vowel sounds. Alliteration uses consonant sounds. Example of Alliteration: A stupid snake slithered slyly. Example of Assonance: Heart the mellow wedding bells. The sound made by the vowel e is stressed in succession.
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Allusion
Definition
reference to a statement, person, place
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iambic pentameter
Definition

u=unstressed. /=stressed

u/u/u/u/u/u/u/u/

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What is Macbeth's reputation at the beginning of the play?
Definition
He is an honored soldier, one who killed the traitorous Macdonwald
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Why is Banquo a threat to Macbeth?
Definition
Banquo sees him as a threat because his descendants were predicted to become Kings. This means that Macbeth's lineage would eventually die due to Banquo.
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Which of Macbeth's murders was driven by rage and a need for revenge?
Definition
Macbeth's murder caused by rage was the killing of Macduff's family. Macduff (righteously) betrayed him, and Macbeth killed his son, wife, and took over his house.
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What were the witches three predictions?
Definition
  1. Macbeth would become the thane of cawdor
  2. Macbeth would become king
  3. Banquo's sons would become king

 

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Define Soliloquoy;
Definition
An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud regardless of anyone listening
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What was Lady Macbeth's execuse for not killing King Duncan herself?
Definition
King duncan looks like her father.
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How is the prediction "none of woman born shall harm Macbeth" a twisted truth?
Definition
Macduff eventually kills him. It is twisted because he was "ripped from his mother's womb" (aka C section).
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In Lady Macbeth's sleep walking scene "out damned spot" is referring to what?
Definition
She is referring to washing blood from her hands.
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At the end of the play who is crowned king?
Definition
Malcolm
Term
Name ten famous lines
Definition

1) "Fair is foul and foul is fair."
--Act 1, Scene 1, Line 10: The witches in conversation
2) "And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths."
--Act 1, Scene 3, Lines 122-3: Banquo to Macbeth about the witches
3) "There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face."
--Act 1, Scene 4, Lines 10-11: King Duncan to Malcolm
4) "Stars, hide your fires:
Let not light see my black and deep desires:
The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be
Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see."
--Act 1, Scene 5, Lines 50-3: Macbeth to himself
5) "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well
It were done quickly.  If th'assassination
Could trammel up the consequence, and catch,
With his surcease, success; that but this blow
Might be the be-all and end-all-here,
But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,
We'd jump the life to come."
--Act 1, Scene 7, Lines 1-7: Macbeth to himself
6) "False face must hide what the false heart doth know."
--Act 1, Scene 8, Line 82: Macbeth to his wife
7) "Is this a dagger I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight, or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?"
--Act 2, Scene 1, Lines 33-39: Macbeth to himself
8) "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep!"
--Act 2, Scene 2, Lines 34-5: imaginary voice to Macbeth
9) "Out, damned spot! Out, I say! One: two:
why, then 'tis time to do't.  Hell is murky.  Fie, my lord,
Fie! A soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who
Knows it, when none can call our power accompt?
Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?"
--Act 5, Scene 1, Lines 34-39: Lady Macbeth to herself while sleepwalking
10) "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death.  Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more.  It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
--Act 5, Scene 5, Lines 19-28: Macbeth to himself

 

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How do you format in text citations with an author?
Definition

Example:

 

"The crazed man, driven by thirst, drank from the poisoned river" (Tesch 90).

 

Quote, followed by last name of author name and page number in parentheses, followed by period.

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In MLA, what does the heading look like?
Definition

Right margin. Last name, page number.

 

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What spacing does MLA require?
Definition
double space (2.0)
Term
 In Penelope’s archery contest, through how many axes must Odysseus fire his arrow?
Definition
12
Term
who plans to assissnate telemachus?
Definition
Antinous, leader of the suitors
Term
describe what happens at the island of the lotus eaters:
Definition
when one eats this plant, they lose all memory of home and want to stay at the island forever.
Term
Describe events relating to polyphemus
Definition
Polyphemus is a cyclopes living on an island. Odysseus and his men go to this island and (ignorantly) find his cave full of lambs and cheese. They camp there, only to realize they are in the cave of Polyphemus. Polyphemus eats two of Odysseus' men per day. In order to escape, Odyseus and crew throw a burning pike at the cyclops eye and escape by attaching themselves to the under-belly of his goats.
Term

What caused Odyseus' journey to be extremely prolonged?

Definition
He was given a bag of air (originally designed to take him to Ithaca) by Aelous, king of the winds. One of his crew members opened it, sending raging winds that knocked them off course.
Term
Who is the goddess of hearth and home?
Definition
Hestia/Vesta. Symbol is the fireplace. Protector of lost orphans
Term
What god was born from Zeus' Head?
Definition
Athena/minerva. Goddess of wisdom, war, and weaving. Her symbol is the olive tree.
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What goddess has the symbols of moon and doe?
Definition
Artemis/Diana. Goddess of the moon and hunting, patroness of maidens
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Who is silenus?
Definition
Brother (in some stories, the son) of Hermes. Described as jovial, fat, and drunk.
Term
why was zeus angry with prometheus? What was his punishment?
Definition
Prometheus cared about men too much, he gave them fire. He was placed on a rock in tartarus where an eagle would pick out his liver every day and it would grow back.
Term
Describe the story of Narcissus and Echo.
Definition
Echo was a beautiful nymph who could not speak. Narcissus was obsessed with himself. He eventually died of starvation because he could not remove his gaze from his reflection in the river.
Term
Although they both turned into flowers, describe the settings/plots of Adons' and Hyacinthus' deaths.
Definition

Hyacinthus: His head was smashed by a discus thrown by apollo. Apollo was very sad, so he turned him into a crimson flower.

 

Adonis: A man loved by both Aprhodite and Persephone. He was gored by a boar while hunting.

Term
Describe the offerings to Paris prince of troy by the three different goddesses:
Definition

Hera: Gave him rule of europe and asia

Athena: Permanent victory at war.

Aphrodite; the most beautiful woman in the world, Helen.

Term
Who is helen known as?
Definition
the face that launched 1000 ships
Term
Describe what happens to patroclus
Definition
Patroclus takes achilles armor (posing to be Achilles) and is killed by hector.
Term
describe the deaths in the ten year war of troy
Definition
Hector kills Patroclus. Achilles kills hector. Apollo and paris kill achilles.
Term
Who saves helen from destruction?
Definition
Aphrodite
Term
Describe why odysseus does not want to go to war, and describe how he tires to "draft dodge"
Definition
He does not want to go to war because he wants to stay w/his wife and he does not believe that a war should be fought over one woman (helen). He tries to draft dodge by pretending to be insane. They test him by attempting to run over his son. Of course, Odysseus is caught faking his insantiy and saves his son.
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