Final Exam

Question 1

Tragedy should leave us feeling…

2

Answer 1

Pity (for excess undeserved suffering)

Fear (we are also neither fully good nor fully bad, and are capable of making a mistake that leads to our suffering)

Question 2

Hamartia

Answer 2

A fatal flaw leading to the downfall of the hero or heroine
They make an error in judgement that is related to virtue and thus triggers an action that causes intense suffering of themselves and others

Question 3

Anagnorisis

Answer 3

Moment of recognition or clarity experienced by tragic protagonist

Question 4

Connections between Doubt and the other previous plays

Answer 4

Doubt is the beginning of new awareness/growth
Antigone: doubt about Creon’s decision - he doubts his own certainty and what he should be doing
Red: old world vs new world - doubt that the new generation will understand his art
Seeds: audience/playwright doubts faith in Percy - similar “how do I know what I know” question

Question 5

3 ways doubt is created in the play

Answer 5

Evasion/Euphemism
Irony/Interpretation
Mrs Mueller and grey morality

Question 6

Italian Sonnet

Answer 6

Also called Petrarchan Sonnet
Octave and sestet
Rhyme pattern: abba abba cde cde

Question 7

English Sonnet

Answer 7

Shakespearean Sonnet
4 parts: 3 quatrains and a rhyming couplet
Rhyme pattern: abab cdcd efef gg

Question 8

Tenor

Answer 8

The subject of the metaphor

The thing you’re actually talking about

Question 9

Vehicle

Answer 9

The object whose attributes are borrowed in a metaphor
The image you’re drawing
The fake thing

Question 10

Blason

Answer 10

Catalogue of parts of a woman usually

Question 11

Synecdoche

Answer 11

Part represents the whole

Question 12

Dactyllic

Answer 12

DUM da da

Ex: Merrily, metrical

Question 13

Anapestic

Answer 13

da da DUM

Ex: seventeen

Question 14

Rhythmn

Answer 14

The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line

Question 15

Meter

Answer 15

Underlying rhythmic pattern of the line

Question 16

Scansion

Answer 16

A means of describing the rhythms of poetry

Divide the line into feet, count feel, mark stressed and unstressed syllables

Question 17

Double Dactyl poem

Answer 17

2 stanzas, each has 4 lines
First 3 lines are dactyllic dimeter (2 dactyls)
Last line has a trochaic and iambic foot
2 stanzas rhyme on last lines
First line is made up words
Second line is the subject of the poem

Question 20

Volta

Answer 20

Turn in the poem

Like between the octave and sestet