English Exam Review

Question 1

In his poems on Chapman’s Homer, and on the Elgin Marbles, what reaction to art does Keats describe? What, for him, is “getting it”?

Answer 1

• Finally get’s appeal
• Is brought to silence
• What’s at stake is having an experience with art that leaves you speechless.

Question 2

What ideas, about the object of his title, does Keats share with us in the “Ode on a Grecian Urn”?

Answer 2

Keats is amazed by the urn considers it like snap shot of gecian civilization. addresses figures like people, ponders their lives.

Question 3

acrostic (poetry)

Answer 3

An acrostic is a type poem. When the words in the poem are arranged in a particular format, a new word is created.
The words that make the acrostic poem are written and read horizontally. The new word that the acrostic poem creates is read vertically.

Question 4

sestina

Answer 4

usually unrhymed, consisting of six stanzas of six lines each and a three-line envoy. The end words of the first stanza are repeated in a different order as end words in each of the subsequent five stanzas; the closing envoy contains all six words, two per line, placed in the middle and at the end of the three lines.

Question 5

The story of Oedipus turns on the riddle of the Sphinx, and Oedipus’s correct answer to it. Yet in Oedipus the King, Sophocles doesn’t bother to relate, or even summarize, this episode. Why not?

Answer 5

the story was written as a play, for ancient greek theatre. These are stories people knew by heart so there was no use in summarizing it.

Question 6

How do the main characters of Oedipus the King typically try to resolve, or get answers to, their questions and problems?

Answer 6

Characters would go to the prophet for clues and keys to succeeding

Question 7

In lines 954-997 of Oedipus the King, what is the Chorus praying for? Why?

Answer 7

If a sinner isn’t punished than what is the point for greeks to believe in their paganism. Even though Oedipus is the hero, they need him to suffer to justify their beliefs.

Question 8

Why does it make sense, in the moral world of the play, that both Oedipus and Jocasta have dark deeds in their pasts (other than getting married to each other)?

Answer 8

Could have been considered a cause of a curse or Jocasta’s giving up of her son triggered the awful chain of luck.

Question 9

What assumptions about the fundamental nature of language, and information, are expressed by the Tower of Babel story (in Genesis 11)?

Answer 9

Everyone was working together when the tower of Babel was constructed, they were getting too close to God so God gave them different languages to stop them.

Question 10

Eleos

Answer 10

she was the personification of pity,mercy,clemency and compassion.

Question 11

Phobos

Answer 11

personification of fear (phobia)

Question 12

Catharsis

Answer 12

releasing of pain, anguish, guilt (point of grecian theatre)

Question 13

Perpetia

Answer 13

a sudden reversal of fortune or change in circumstances, especially in reference to fictional narrative.

Question 14

Anagnorisis

Answer 14

Anagnorisis is a moment in a play or other work when a character makes a critical discovery. Anagnorisis originally meant recognition in its Greek context, not only of a person but also of what that person stood for.

Question 15

How important, and in what ways, is the concept of interpretation in the story of Joseph

Answer 15

Joseph’s brothers interpret Joseph’s dream as proof that he was to succeed over them. It was the reason for his betrayal. Joseph’s story can be interpreted as true or false depending on religious stand point

Question 16

semiotics

Answer 16

the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation.

Question 17

Latent

Answer 17

existing but not yet developed or manifest; hidden; concealed

Question 18

How does Odysseus get to the land of the dead (in book 11)? What’s interesting or striking about that?

Answer 18

Odysseus sails to Hades, it’s not abnormal to visit the underworld, just as it isn’t abnormal to be visited by the gods. Greece cannot look outside itself if you go to “heaven” or “hell” it’s just Greece with different lighting girl

Question 19

In what sense is Odysseus a “hero”?

Answer 19

Odysseus is considered an epic hero for his role as King of Ithaca, his participation in the war, and his journey home. … A hero has some type of superhuman ability, such as intelligence, physical strength, or bravery: Odysseus was known for his ability to think himself out of tough situations

Question 20

The meeting with the ghost of Achilles, Odyssey 11.530–616. Does he, or does he not, repudiate the Greek heroic attitude?

Answer 20

Achilles is originally the “hero” model he was the perfect vision of greek masculinity. GHOST Achilles however, says he’d rather be a peasant than be praised and down in Hades.

Question 21

Epic

Answer 21

Long story of the formation or destruction of a great civilization.

Question 22

“The Odyssey might just as well be called The Homecoming.” Comment.

Answer 22

After twenty years Odesseus returns home
he’s dressed as a begger and one by one reveals himself to his family who don’t expect his return.
His son thinks he is a God, then reckognizes him. Argos reckognizes him by his voice and his wife reckognizes him by his olive tree branch bed comment.
Odesseus’ homecoming fills his actual home: his son is given his father, his dog is given his proper caring master and his wife is given her husband back.

Question 23

Comment, narratologically, on the episode of Odysseus’s scar in book 19

Answer 23

Odysseus is identified by his Scar on his leg. Odysseus’ identity to those who should reckognize him is wrapped in a physical sign of his war accomplishments. Odysseus is seen as a war hero not an actual man, as he is a greek’s hero.

Question 24

Narratology

Answer 24

Narratology is the study of narrative and narrative structure and the ways that these affect our perception

Question 25

Why does Homer draw attention to Odysseus’ dogs

Answer 25

Argos symbolizes loyalty, Argos reckognizes Odysseus even if he is disguised, compared to his wife and everyone else. “But when the disguised Odysseus speaks, an old dog sitting on a dung heap nearby pricks his ears up and tries to wag his tail. Odysseus recognizes him as Argos, the hound that he trained as a puppy but never had the chance to take hunting before he left for Troy.”

Question 26

Why are we told (twice) the name of the inn where Othello and Desdemona got married? How does that name fit with the themes that Shakespeare seems to be exploring in this play?

Answer 26

Saggitary => Sagitarius
Half man, half beast
Nobleman Othello, Beast Moor

Question 27

Comment on Desdemona’s “finger-ache” notion at 3.4.141-144. What does she get wrong? How does this relate to the play’s discourse of complex human identity?

Answer 27

Finger ache = finger hurts will hurt the entire body
men that are bothered by something big get mad at little things
Desdemona’s upset with her self because she “judges too harshly” and questions if expecting Othello to be as wonderful as their wedding day is reasonable.

Question 28

Why does swift connect Gulliver’s voyages to Japan

Answer 28

Dutch only allowed in japan “believed in liberal religion”
although he produces satire about england is patriotic.
Japan is the only “human” experience still says little about it as a way to snub them.

Question 29

Versimilar

Answer 29

having the appearance of truth

Question 30

reflexive

Answer 30

performed as a reflex, without conscious thought.

Question 31

misanthropy

Answer 31

dislike of man kind