IOBE Key Moments Flashcards
(37 cards)
1
Q
What are the key scenes?
A
- cigarette case
- mock engagement
- Jack’s interrogation
- Jack in mourning
- Cecily’s diary
- the tea scene
- muffin scene
- Cecily is interviewed
- Jack’s identity is revealed
2
Q
1 - key characters
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Jack and Algy
3
Q
1 - elements of comedy
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- Jack begins his role of the ingenue
- the unearnestness of the characters is introduced
- mocking of marriage
4
Q
1 - quotations
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- a very ungentlemanly thing
- some aunts are tall, some aunts are not tall
- repetition of ‘earnest’
- if you ever get married + you will be very glad to know Bunbury
- three is a company and two is none
5
Q
1 - comedic devices
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- torture of the ingenue
- irony
6
Q
2 - characters
A
Jack and Gwendolen
7
Q
2 - elements of comedy
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- inversion of gender stereotypes
- mocking of marriage
- Jack as the ingenue
8
Q
2 - quotations
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- produces vibrations
- i must get christened at once
- may I propose to you now?
- [goes on his knees]
- I knew I was destined to love you
9
Q
2 - comedic devices
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- physical comedy
- bawdy humour
10
Q
3 - characters
A
Jack and Lady Bracknell
11
Q
3 - elements of comedy
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- trivial desires
- paradoxical reversal of standards
- comic disbelief
12
Q
3 - key quotations
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- a hand bag !
- do you smoke?
- form an alliance with a parcel
- the unfashionable side
- ignorance is like a delicate, exotic fruit, touch it the bloom is gone
13
Q
3 - comedic devices
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- subversion of stereotypes
- comedic climax, torture of ingenue
14
Q
4 - characters
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Jack, Miss Prism, Chasuble, Cecily
15
Q
4 - elements of comedy
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- mockery of the dead, desensitisation
- hyperbolic behaviour
- false morals
16
Q
4 - quotations
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- dead!
- he died abroad; in Paris
- as a man sows, so shall he reap
- people who live entirely for pleasure usually are (unmarried)
- adapted to almost any occasion
17
Q
4 - comedic devices
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- stichomythia
- physical comedy of mourning regalia
18
Q
5 - key characters
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Cecily and Algy
19
Q
5 - elements of comedy
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- gender inversions, Cecily’s driving force
- the melodramatic superficiality of love
- trviality
20
Q
5 - quotations
A
- one should speak fluently and not cough
- wildly, passionately, devotedly, hopelessly
- a girlish dream of mine to love some one whose name was Earnest
- my own sweet Cecily
- I can hardly read them without crying a little
21
Q
5 - comedic devices
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- repetition
- hyperboles
22
Q
6 - key characters
A
Gwendolen and Cecily
23
Q
6 - elements of comedy
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- Cecily and Gwendolen match linguistic abilities
- change of behaviour around the servants
- comic rivalry
24
Q
6 - quotations
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- a friendship quite like ours
- i suppose that is why you live in town?
- agricultural depression
- detestable girl [aside]
- my first impressions of people are never wrong
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6 - comedic devices
1. melodramatic behaviour
2. repetition
26
7 - characters
Jack and Algy
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7 - elements of comedy
1. comic rivalry
2. gluttony, trivial concerns
3. false earnestness
28
7 - quotations
1. perfectly heartless
2. I love her + I adore her
3. I never go without my dinner
4. but I have not been christened for years
5. eating is the only thing that consoles me
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8 - characters
Lady Bracknell, Cecily, Jack
30
8 - elements of comedy
1. Lady Bracknell's mercenary values and mask slip
2. Jack reclaiming power over Lady Bracknell
3. double standards
31
8 - key quotations
1. Bunbury? Oh he was quite exploded
2. [bows coldly]
3. a hundred and thirty thousand pounds
4. Cecily, you may now kiss me
5. I absolutely decline to give
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8 - comedic devices
1. physical comedy
2. hypocricy
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8 - comedic devices
1. physical comedy
2. hypocrisy
34
9 - characters
All
35
9 - elements of comedy
1. happy resolution
2. slow torture of ingenue
3. Miss Prism's reveal
36
9 - quotations
1. Algernon's older brother
2. This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last
3. explosion of a temperance beverage
4. I am unmarried
5. The vital importance of being Earnest
6. at last!
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9 - comedic devices
1. happy ending
2. attitudes to marriage