Language and Literature
Review
1)
What is the
part of the plot where the decisive turning point occurs that makes the action
change course? Climax
2)
What is the
part of the plot where resolution to the central conflict occurs? Denouement
3)
What kind of irony is an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected
or intended?
Situational
4)
What kind
of irony occurs when the intended meaning of a statement or work is different
than what was literally said? Verbal irony
5)
What figure
of speech am I using when I say, “I am 3000 pounds overweight?” Hyperbole
6)
What is the
statement called when it 1st strikes us as self-contradictory but
upon reflection makes sense? Paradox
7)
What kind
of rhyme occurs when the vowel sounds are nearly, but not exactly, the same?
Slant rhyme
8)
This
involves the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant
sounds in stressed syllables or words? Assonance
9)
This is the
process of marking the accents and dividing them into lines of poetry? Scansion
10)
In Iamb meter,
a unstressed syllable is followed by a what? Stressed
11)
What is the
opposite of Iamb meter? Trochee
12)
This is a
lyric poem written to celebrate or commemorate a special occasion? Ode
13)
This is a
lyric poem of lamentation and in some cases meditation or reflection? Elegy
14)
This is a
humorous poem with a “aabba” rhyme scheme? Limerick
15)
This is a
lyric poem with 14 lines with rhymes? Sonnet
16)
A type of
drama in which the protagonist is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow or
hardship because they have a tragic flaw?
Tragedy
17)
What is a
comedy that appeals to the intellect of the audience? High comedy
18)
Who was the
man that was born into an aristocratic family in Athens and was originally
named Aristocles? Plato
19)
What is
Plato famous for writing? Dialogues
20)
Plato’s Republic
is narrated by who? Socrates
21)
What is an
extended narrative that has a 2nd meaning beneath the story that
transpires on the surface? Allegory
22)
What did
Plato use to represent ideas or abstract concepts? Forms
23)
What form
did Plato see as the ultimate goal of the human soul? Form of Good
24)
How can
people in the cave not see what is around them? Their necks are locked into one
position.
25)
As Plato
describes, what would happen if a man was set free and let out of the cave,
into the sunlight? 1st confused, 2nd pity for prisoners,
3rd happy to see the truth, and 4th never want to go back
to the cave.
26)
What did
the daylight and sun represent in the Allegory of the Cave? True knowledge
27)
What does
the released prisoner represent in the Allegory of the Cave? Philosophers
seeking true knowledge
28)
Who wrote
Musee Des Beaux Arts? WH Auden
29)
Who
published WH Auden’s work? TS Eliot
30)
What poem
did Auden win a Pulitzer Prize for? “Age of Anxiety”
31)
Where is
the Musee des Beaux Arts that Auden writes about? Brussels
32)
What was
the theme of the poem? The Fall of Icarus painting by Peter Breughel
33)
Who was
Daedalus’ son? Icarus
34)
Why did
Daedalus instruct his son to not fly to close to the sun? His wings would melt
because they were made of wax?
35)
Auden’s
interpretation of the “Fall of Icarus” is what? the indifference of ordinary
people to great events
36)
Who did not
notice the Fall of Icarus? The Farmer in the field
37)
Who wrote
“To a Friend whose Work Has Come to Triumph?” Anne Sexton
38)
Who was
Anne Sexton’s close friend who committed suicide by sticking her head in the
oven? Sylvia Plath
39)
Who was
Anne Sexton’s biggest influence on her poetry? WD Snodgrass
40)
What is the
theme of Sexton’s piece? Failure is in reality a personal triumph
41)
How is
Sexton’s poem on Icarus different than Auden’s? She focuses on the ecstasy of
flight
42)
What type
of meter does an epic have? dactylic hexameter
43)
Paris, a
prince of Troy, chose who to be the most beautiful goddess? Aphrodite
44)
Who was
Helen of the Sparta married to? King Menelaus
45)
Why in the
Iliad excerpt is Achilles chasing Hector? Hector killed his best friend
Patroclus.
46)
What does
Hector promise to do if he wins the battle with Achilles? Return Achilles’ body
to the Spartans.
47)
Who
eventually wins the battle of Achilles and Hector? Achilles
48)
Why does
Athena not like the Trojans? because Paris picked Aphrodite to be the most
beautiful goddess
49)
How does
Athena help Achilles in the battle? She transforms herself into Deiphobus,
Hector’s brother, to confuse Hector
50)
How does
Apollo help Hector? He makes Hector have strong legs for running
51)
Who is
Achilles the son of? Goddess Thetis
52)
What poet
died at a young age of TB, and had relatives die of the same disease? John
Keats
53)
What art
movement of the 19th century was Keats part of, which
emphasized personal reaction, emotion,
and intuition? Romanticism
54)
What were
the raised marble figures called on the Grecian Urn? Elgin marbles
55)
What is
found on the sides of the urn? Eternal happiness and a sacrifice
56)
Usually, in
Keats’ odes, he starts off in the real world and does what? Takes off into the
ideal world, find something lacking in the ideal world, and returns to the real
world.
57)
Who was
born Perseus Ency? Sophocles
58)
Why does
Oedipus limp? His ankles were skewered when he was young and adandoned.
59)
Why do the
people of Thebes believe Oedipus can cure the city of the plague? Because he
did it in the past when answering the riddle of the Sphinx.
60)
What does
Oedipus tell the priests he's already done to solve this new problem of the
plague? Sent his brother in law, Creon, to Delphi.
61)
What is the
cause of the plague on Thebes and who tells him of this news? An unsolved
murder, and Creon tells him from the oracle at Delphi
62)
Who was the
one character that saw King Laius’ death? The Old Shepherd
63)
Why does
Oedipus want to find the killer? He feels that the killer may strike again
64)
Oedipus
promises the murderer what if he gives himself up? Exile, and banishment from
Thebes
65)
When the
Chorus suggests they may know someone who could help, the blind prophet
Tiresias, how does Oedipus treat the prophet when they 1st meet? Respectfully,
Oedipus thinks he can help
66)
Why doesn’t
Tiresias say anything to Oedipus’ questions? Tiresias knows the murderer is
Oedipus
67)
What does
Oedipus assume about Tiresias when he refuses to give him the answers? Oedipus
thinks he is a traitor to Thebes
68)
Who does
Oedipus think was involved in this setup to overthrow him from power? Creon
69)
Why does
Oedipus believe that Tiresias’ words are bogus? Because Tiresias could not
solve the riddle of the Sphinx
70)
Why does
Tiresias say that Oedipus is blind? because he can't see the corruption of his
life
71)
What was
Oedipus’s mother or wife’s name? Jocasta
72)
At the end
of Oedipus the King, what happens to Jocasta and Oedipus?
73)
What is the
theme of Antigone? that Fate in due course brings fit punishment on outrage.
74)
What are the
3 brothers’ names of Antigone? Eteocles and Polynices
75)
Which
brother was allowed proper burial rites by King Creon? Eteocles
76)
Who does
Antigone tell her plans Polynices’ burial? Her sister Ismene
77)
Who tells
King Creon of Polynices burial rites? A guard
78)
Who does
the Chorus suggest gave burial rites to Polynices? The gods
79)
How does
King Creon punish the guards for their neglect? He states that the guards must
bring him the criminal if they want to live.
80)
How does
King Creon punish Antigone for performing the burial rites on her brother? She
is to be led to the dungeon, where she is to die of starvation.
81)
Who warns
King Creon of his bad decision and impending doom? The seer Tiresias.
82)
Why does
King Creon’s son Haemon kill himself? Haemon is in love with Antigone, and is
upset at what Creon has done.
83)
How does
Antigone kill herself? She hangs herself
84)
Once King
Creon’s wife, Eurydice, hears the news of her son’s death, what does she do?
Eurydice kills herself.
85)
Who is
Electra’s younger, more submissive sister? Chrysothemis
86)
Who is
Clytemnestra’s husband’s name that helped plot to kill King Agamemnon? Ægisthus
87)
Why does
Electra hate her mother Clytemnestra? Clytemnestra kills her father, King
Agamemnon.
88)
What does
Clytemnestra dream about that caused her to send Chrysothemis to Agamemnon’s
grave? Agamemnon had come to life again, and planted his sceptre in the floor
of his house; a tree sprung up overshadowing the whole land.
89)
How does
Orestes messenger explain how Orestes died? He died in a chariot race in the
Pythian games.
90)
How did
Clytemnestra react to the news of Orestes’ death? She was happy
91)
Why does
Chyrsothemis think Orestes is not dead? She finds a new lock of hair on
Agamemnon’s grave
92)
Who did
Electra give baby Orestes to, so that this man could take care of him and protect
him? Pylades
93)
Who does
Orestes reappear to kill, and avenge his father’s death? Aegisthus and
Clytemnestra.