Exam Review - Remaining Defintions

Question 1

Saturday climbing themes:

Answer 1

• trust your children
• holding others back will only limit their experiences and abilities
• holding your children back will cause them to rebel and limit their ability to learn and grow on their own

Question 2

The singing silence themes:

Answer 2

• it’s not about the goal, but the journey in how you reach it
• money can’t buy happiness
• goals help you grow

Question 3

The cask of amontillado themes:

Answer 3

• revenge is wrong
• be careful how you treat others
• don’t trust everyone and be careful who you do

Question 4

Test themes:

Answer 4

• too much power is bad and can take away from people’s choices and individuality
• diversity is important

Question 5

Mirror image themes:

Answer 5

• identity is often changing

* technology can harm people when used to much

Question 6

The secret life of Walter Mitty themes:

Answer 6

• live your life to the fullest

* accept failure and grow from it

Question 7

Fahrenheit 451 themes:

Answer 7

• too much technology can harm people’s idea of reality and happiness within
• too much control can limit people’s choices and individuality
• reading and learning from pasts create room to grow

Question 8

Macbeth themes:

Answer 8

• ambition can make you do irrational things
• appearance vs reality
• violence creates more violence

Question 9

La belle dame sans merci themes:

Answer 9

• be careful who you trust

* love can make you blind

Question 10

ozymandias themes:

Answer 10

• power is temporary

* some things don’t last forever - like the statue

Question 11

Sonnet 18 themes:

Answer 11

• love

* poetry is for everlasting

Question 12

The man he killed themes:

Answer 12

• war is pointless as you are killing others who you do not know
• war is bad

Question 13

Dulce et decorum est themes:

Answer 13

• it is prideful fighting for ones country, but also strange

Question 14

St George themes:

Answer 14

• don’t judge a book by its cover

* things aren’t always what they are expected

Question 15

Sonnet 130 themes:

Answer 15

• love
• love matters most depending on what the person is like on the inside, not outside
• internal and external beauty are different

Question 16

Sonnet 55 themes:

Answer 16

• poetry lasts for ever and so should love

* poetry outlives time

Question 17

Great chain of being:

Answer 17

Hierarchical ranking of all life and matter.

EXAMPLE - in “Macbeth” the kings ranks at the top and is followed by the Thanes. Each person is said to be placed there by God.

Question 18

Comic relief:

Answer 18

A break from a serious or dramatic scene of a literary work into a comedic episode.

EXAMPLE - during the banquet in “Macbeth”, Banquo has just been killed and Macbeth sees his ghost. Macbeth is extremely frightened and everyone is confused, porter mentions the affects of alcohol and references Macbeth and how he is acting.

Question 19

Hubris:

Answer 19

Overweening of pride or insolence. Leads someone to break a moral law.

EXAMPLE- Macbeth breaks a moral law by killing Duncan, and aspires to be king all prior to doing so.

Question 20

Catastrophe:

Answer 20

The end to a tragic play, often ends in many deaths.

EXAMPLE - Macbeth and lady Macbeth, the protagonists, end dead at the end of the play.

Question 21

Equivocation:

Answer 21

Use of a language in a sense that it can be understood in two ways, this is on purpose. Not lying but no telling the truth.

EXAMPLE - in “Macbeth” the prophecy of Macduff being born from a woman is equivocated. Said to be someone born from a woman, in which he was, but c section, which was not mentioned.

Question 22

Pathetic fallacy:

Answer 22

Human emotions, thoughts etc are carried into natural objects.

EXAMPLE - when the witches in “Macbeth” reference to meeting again during lighting, rain or thunder. This reflects the bad things that are going to happen soon.

Question 23

Tragic flaw:

Answer 23

Flaw or limitation of a character.

EXAMPLE - Macbeth’s is his ambition and how he is easily influenced, causing him to do bad things, such as kill others.

Question 24

Tragic hero:

Answer 24

A privileged character who later suffers due to their tragic flaw.

EXAMPLE - Macbeth is a thane and earns great credit for doing so well in a battle. His ambition later leads him to death.

Question 25

Tone:

Answer 25

The attitude of a literary work aimed towards an audience. EXAMPLE - the tone of “Fahrenheit 451” is very dark and dramatic.

Question 26

Objective correlative:

Answer 26

The emotional response the author intended is felt by the reader without direct statement. EXAMPLE - in “ La belle dame sans merci” the feeling you get from reading “ and no birds sing” is the same in how the Knight feels.

Question 27

Irony:

Answer 27

The reference to something, in which it signifies the opposite. EXAMPLE - in Macbeth when Macbeth kills Duncan and then his servants, in which who were framed for Duncan’s murder. The assumed executioners have been executed.

Question 28

Satire:

Answer 28

Brings attention and criticism of problems within society and government, and within people. EXAMPLE - the author of “Fahrenheit 451” critiques the society by exaggerating and emphasizing its culture.

Question 29

Anagnorisis:

Answer 29

A point in a play or novel where a main character realizes another’s true identity. EXAMPLE - in “F451” when Montag finally realizes that Mildred is selfish, and never loved him. He realizes this when she feels no emotion towards him as she walks out on him.

Question 30

Symbol:

Answer 30

Used to signify something of a larger meaning. EXAMPLE - the blood on Macbeth’s hands represent the guilt caused from killing king Duncan.

Question 31

Peripeteia:

Answer 31

A sudden reversal of fortune. EXAMPLE - Macbeth plans on killing Duncan, and others all to become king, as that’s all he wants. He instantly then after, feels guilt, and doesn’t even want to be king anymore.