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What are the four types of conflict?

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  1. Person vs. person
  2. Person vs. self
  3. Person vs. environment
  4. Person vs. technology
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What are the five elements of a plot?

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  1. Exposition
  2. Rising action
  3. Climax
  4. Falling action
  5. Resolution
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What is a protagonist?

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Central character of a story

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What is an antagonist?

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Character or force that is opposed to the protagonist

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What is the theme?

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The central idea or a story

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What is the setting?

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The time and place of a story

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What is 1st person point of view?

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When a character within the story narrates

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What is omniscient point of view?

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The storyteller’s knowledge extends to the internal states of all the characters

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What is a thesis?

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The central idea of an essay

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What is paraphrasing?

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Putting something in your own words

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What is the relationship between a poem’s subject and the theme?

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The theme reveals something important about the subject

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What is tone?

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The author’s perspective of the text

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What is mood?

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The emotions the reader feels from reading the text

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What is a shift in a poem?

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Any change in the poem in its message or context

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What is personification?

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Where a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics

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What is an extended metaphor?

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It’s developed at length and involves several points of comparison

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What is imagery?

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The descriptive language used to recreate sensory experiences

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What is alliteration?

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The repetition of the initial consonant

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What is rhyme scheme?

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The regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem of stanza

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What is a metaphor?

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A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else

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What is a simile?

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A figure of speech that compares two apparently different things using like or as

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What are the five main symbols in LotF? Explain their symbolism.

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  1. Island- garden of Eden
  2. Glasses- knowledge
  3. Conch- order
  4. Pig head- evil inside everyone
  5. Fire- hope and destruction
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What is Golding’s commentary on the nature of mankind in LotF?

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Mankind is evil

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In what ways do Jack and Ralph reflect the different extremes of human nature?

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Ralph goes for democracy, Jack goes for dictatorship

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How does Simon function as a Christ figure?
He comes to tell the good news and gets killed; only innocent character
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What is deus ex machine and how does the ending of LotF exemplify this storytelling technique?
God from machine; a random character comes in and fixes everything; the navy captain comes and saves them; from Greek and Roman tragedies
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Who were the Anglo Saxons?
Germanic warriors that invaded England and ruled until 1066
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What version of English did they speak?
Old English
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How did the Anglo Saxons spread stories and tales in their day?
Oral tradition
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What is the significance of Beowulf to the English language?
It's the first recorded work in English
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Why is Beowulf considered an epic?
Because of its length
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Who were the Normans and when did they invade?
From North France; invaded in 1066
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Where was the divisive battle of the war fought?
Hastings
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What is heroic poetry?
Poetry about a hero
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What is elegiac poetry?
Poetry lamenting the death of a loved one
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What does Beowulf reveal about the Anglo Saxon's view of fate and religion?
It struggled with dual identity mixing Christianity and Catholicism
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What is a kenning?
A subject with 2 adjectives
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What language was spoken in England during the Middle Ages?
Middle English
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Who wrote the Canterbury tales?
Geoffrey Chaucer
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What was Chaucer's criticism of pilgrims and the church?
Pilgrims didn't take religious journeys seriously; the church is hypocritical
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What is the basic structure of the Canterbury tales in terms of the contest and the historical context of the book?
Each told 2 stories there, two back, whoever won got a feast. The pilgrimages were to the tomb of Thomas á Becket, a bishop of Canterbury who was assassinated
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What are the 4 elements of a tragedy?
1. Hero- high to low in society usually ending in death 2. Human greatness 3. Ends tragically, teaching a lesson 4. Arouses fear, pity, and awe
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What is a sonnet?
A 14 line poem in iambic pentameter; covers a single theme
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What is an octave?
8 lime stanza
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What is a quatrain?
4 line stanza
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What is a couplet?
Two line stanza
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What is a sonnet sequence?
Sonnets organized by theme
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What is a sestet?
A six line stanza
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What is imagery?
Sensory detail
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What is Petrarchan rhyme scheme?
Abba abba cdecde
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What is Spenserian rhyme scheme?
Abab bcbc cdcd ee
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What is Shakespearian rhyme scheme?
Abab cdcd efef gg
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How many lines does a sonnet have?
14
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What us iambic pentameter?
5 pairs of 2 syllables; 2nd syllable in each pair is stressed
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How many stressed syllables are in a line of iambic pentameter poetry?
5
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Which comes first, stressed or unstressed syllables?
Unstressed
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In sonnets, what is the purpose of the first several lines and the last few lines?
First lines present a problem, the last lines present a resolution/solution
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What is pastoral poetry?
It celebrates simple life in the country
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What is an example of pastoral imagery in The Passionate Shepherd?
I will make thee a bed of roses
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How does The Passionate Shepherd exemplify pastoral poetry?
Glorifies nature, speaker is a shepherd
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Thematically, how does The Nymph's Reply answer the shepherd's request?
Love will fade
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How did the authors of these two poems know each other?
They lived in the same period

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