ENGLISH FINAL REVIEW Flashcards
(55 cards)
What is a Static Character?
A static character is a character who does not change in the course of the work.
What is a Dynamic Character?
A dynamic character is one who changes in the course of a work.
What is a Character Foil?
A foil character is used to highlight or expose the traits, attributes, or motivations of another character. Often, the foils are paired together to show a contrast. Emphasizing the differences between personalities and attitudes adds depth and dimension to characterization.
What is Direct Characterization?
Direct Characterization: The writer makes direct statements about the character’s personality. For example, a writer may simply state that a character is shy or selfish.
What is Indirect Characterization?
Indirect Characterization: The writer requires the readers to draw their own conclusions about a character, based on evidence from the story.
Evidence from the story might include:
the character’s appearance
the character’s words/speech
the character’s private thoughts
the character’s actions
other character’s comments, responses, and thoughts
What is Internal Conflict?
Internal Conflict: is a struggle between opposing needs, desires, or emotions within a single person. The conflict occurs entirely within a character’s mind.
Example: Person vs. Self
What is External Conflict?
External Conflict: is a struggle against some outside force such as another character, nature, or society.
Examples:
Person vs. Person
Person vs. Nature
Person vs. Society
What is First Person POV?
First Person POV: The narrator is one of the characters in the story and tells the events in his or her own words.
(Me, Myself, I)
What is Third Person Limited POV?
Third Person Limited POV: The narrator tells the story through the eyes of only one character.
(he, she, they)
What is a Third Person Omniscient POV?
Third Person Omniscient POV: The narrator looks and tells the story through the eyes of all the characters and is all knowing.
What is Imagery?
Imagery: is language that appeals to the senses. Most images are visual – that is, they create pictures in the reader’s mind by appealing to the senses of sound, touch, taste, and/or smell.
What is Tone?
Tone is the author’s attitude towards their subject (event, character,etc) in their text.
What is Mood?
Mood: is a story’s atmosphere or the feeling it evokes. Mood is often created by a story’s setting and developed through imagery.
What is Symbolism?
Symbolism is the practice of representing things by means of symbols or by attributing symbolic meanings or significance to objects, events, or relationships.
What is Juxtaposition?
The fact of two (different) things, events, ect. being seen are placed close together with contrasted effect
What is Theme?
Theme is the main idea or message that a story conveys.
- Theme is what you want the audience to take away from your story
- It is the purpose or “Why” of the Story
What is Allusion?
A purposeful reference (direct or indirect) to a particular event, person, place, thing, experience, or literary work which the reader is presumably familiar with.
What is Situational Irony?
Situational Irony – Occurs when a character or audience expects one thing to happen, but something entirely different happens. With situational irony, the outcome of a situation is inconsistent with what we expect would logically or normally occur. It is the reverse of what we expect will be or happen.
Example: In The Most Dangerous Game, Rainsford jumps off the cliff to escape Zaroff. Readers assume Rainsford died at that moment. Later in the story, we discover Rainsford not only survived, but hid out in Zaroff’s bedroom so he could surprise & kill Zaroff.
Example: In To Kill a Mockingbird, Miss Caroline asked Scout to tell her father not to read to her anymore because it would interfere with her learning.
What is Dramatic Irony?
Dramatic Irony – occurs when the audience/reader knows something that the character does not know.
Example: In Pyramus & Thisbe, Pyramus believes Thisbe has been killed by the lion when he sees her bloodied veil in the lion’s mouth, but the audience knows that she is alive and had dropped her veil while running away from the lion.
What is Verbal Irony?
Verbal Irony – occurs when a character says one thing, but actually means the opposite.
Example: A character steps out in the middle of a hurricane and says, “What great weather we are having!”
How is the setting of A Midsummer Night’s Dream vital to its plot? Compare the city to the woods.
The setting of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is vital to the plot because, even though the setting is generally speaking near each other (Athens), they both are different worlds and societies with different social norms and disorder. The two settings that are represented throughout the story are the woods and the city. These two settings contrast completely to each other and highlight each one’s flaws and traits. The woods of Athens, as its own society, represents a mysterious aura, where mischievousness and chaos can ensue because of the dark atmosphere. This is where the species of the fairies lure around and some (like Robin) can be free to cause trouble. On the other hand, the city of Athens represents structure, order, laws and restrictions, and strict social norms. This is vital to the plot as most of the chaos that occurs within Athens between the lovers, the fairies, and the actors (Bottom and others) is seen within the woods unlike the city.
How does conflict drive the plot of A Midsummer Night’s Dream? Examine the Athenians, Fairies, & Actors/tradesmen.
The conflict drives the plot of A Midsummer Night’s Dream as everyone has a role to play within the story that drives it forward.
When the story starts, Egeus (Hermia’s father) and Hermia are arguing over whether Egeus wants Hermia to marry Demetrius. He goes to Theseus pleading to enact the Athenian law that would allow Hermia to be killed by him if she doesn’t marry who he wants. Thesues then says that she has 4 days (until his wedding) to decide whether or not she will marry Demetrius because death will be an option. After Theseus and Demetrius leave, Lysander offers to run away with Hermia and they accept.
Titania and Oberon are arguing over an Indian boy who Titania promised his mom on his deathbed to take care of him like he was her own and Oberon wants him as a henchman. Titania storms off and Oberon conducts a plan to get her to give him the boy. He calls Puck (Robin the fairy who is a notorious troublemaker) and tells him to find a flower that cupid had shot that now has love potion powers to make her fall in love with something vile as ‘revenge’ and gain control over the boy who he wants for himself. While Robin is retrieving the flower, Oberon witnesses a sad scene between desperate Helena and Demetrius who obviously doesn’t like her like that. When Robin comes back, Oberon tells him to take half of the flower and to drug the man with Athenian garments that does not like her back. Oberon drugs Titania in her sleep and Robin drugs the wrong man in Athenian garments because Lusamder also has Athenian garments on and is in the woods. Lysander is woken up by Helena who thinks he is dead and Lysander falls in love by the power of the love flower. After Oberon is told about the wrong doing of Robin, he specifically tells him to drug Demetrius, not realizing that Robin drugged Lysander to fall in love with the same girl.
Helena thinks Hermia is mocking her, she retaliates, and they both get into a physical fight with one another while the two boys are doing the same over who can protect Helena better.
At the same time, Bottom and his fellow actors go and rehearse their play in the woods that they have to perform on the upcoming wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta. Robin sees this and turns Bottom’s head into that of a half-ass (a donkey head as the top -human bottom) and the actors and tradesmen get scared and flee. Titania wakes up at this scene, sees Bottom and falls in love with him.
Oberon tells Robin to bring a flower that reduces the love potion’s power and tells him to take half and drug Lysander to undo his mistakes. He then undrugs Titania and they go and make up to his advantage.
Robin undrugs Lysander and the couples wake up in a field (they think what happened was a dream) where they are greeted by Theseus, Egeus, and Hippolyta. Demetrius tells them that he is not in love with Hermia anymore but Helena. Theseus is touched by this amount of love and allows the couples to be married.
Bottom wakes up and believes it was a dream. (so does titania at first)
These conflicts drive the story forward because they build up a plot that supports the main themes that Shakespeare is trying to say through his play.
Theseus: (Identify and Characterize)
A.
- Duke of Athens, Fiance of Hippolyta
B.
- Flirtatious towards Hippolyta
- Loves Hippolyta
- Loves love
- Wise and mature
- Responsible
- Quick-witted
Hippolyta:
A.
About to be Dutchess of Athens
Fiance of Theseus
Queen of the Amazons
B.
- Loves Theseus
- Loving
- Caring
