2013 Second Semester Exam Review

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1 2013 Second Semester Exam Review From Macbeth. 1. What important roles do the witches play in Macbeth? 2. What is Macbeth's character flaw? 3. What is Lady Macbeth's purpose in drugging the servants? 4. Explain what Lady Macbeth means when she says, My hands are of your color, but I shame / To wear a heart so white? 5. Explain what the witches mean when they say Something wicked this way comes. 6. What causes Macbeth to imagine he sees Banquo's ghost at the banquet? 7. Why does Macbeth fear Banquo? 8. Why does Lady Macbeth kill herself? 9. When Macbeth says Out, out, brief candle! the word candle refers to what? 10.What does Macbeth really mean when he indicates that the blood on his hands will redden all the seas?

2 11.Why does Macbeth declare he will sleep no more? 12.At what point does Macbeth first begin to realize that he has been tricked by the prophecies? 13.When Macbeth says Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown / And put a barren scepter in my gripe, what does he mean? 14.What is the cause of Macbeth's irrational behavior at the banquet? 15.Why does Lady Macbeth think Macbeth has little chance of becoming king? 16.In Act V, what happens that represents the resolution of the plot? 17.During the banquet, Macbeth becomes unhappy and distracted. Lady Macbeth says to him, Gentle my lord, sleek o er your rugged looks; / Be bright and jovial among your guests tonight. What does she mean? 18.In her mad scene, Lady Macbeth declares, Out, damned spot! Out, I say! What spot is she talking about?

3 17 th and 18 th Century A Modest Proposal, by Jonathan Swift 19.What is Swift s main purpose in his essay A Modest Proposal? 20.What evidence does Swift give to prove that he will not benefit from A Modest Proposal? 21.How long does Swift propose that mothers keep their children? 22.Why does Swift include many facts and statistics in A Modest Proposal? 23.Define satire. 24.Define understatement. 25.Define sarcasm. 26.Define irony. 27.Explain this statement from A Modest Proposal.... the poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own... and help to pay their landlord s rent, their corn and cattle being already seized, and money a thing unknown. 28.Why does Swift use terms such as breeders, males, and females when referring to the poor of Ireland in A Modest Proposal?

4 Romantic Period Poetry To a Mouse, by Robert Burns 29.According to the speaker in To a Mouse, how are humans and mice alike? 30.How is the mouse s home destroyed? 31.In To a Mouse, what is the poet's attitude toward the mouse? 32.Define dialect and give an example of a line of dialect from Burns poem, To a Mouse. 33.Translate the following line of dialect from the poem: Thy wee bit housie, too, in ruin! 34.Translate this line from To a Mouse : But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane... The World is Too Much With Us, and London, 1802, by William Wordsworth 35.Paraphrase these lines from London, 1802 Oh! raise us up, return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.

5 36.What is Wordsworth's main subject in The World Is Too Much With Us? 37.What is the meaning of the title of the poem The World Is Too Much With Us? 38.What does the speaker in London, 1802 mean by saying that England is in need of Milton? The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 39.Define internal rhyme. Find an example of a line with internal rhyme in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. 40.What is the theme of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner? 41.Define alliteration. 42.Find an example of alliteration in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. 43.At the end of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, why does the ancient Mariner travel from land to land? 44.In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, why does only the ancient Mariner survive among the crew?

6 45.What does the ancient Mariner in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner do that brings the curse on him? BONUS ON THE EXAM Read and study the following two poems. On First Looking Into Chapman s Homer, and When I Have Fears, by Keats The questions on the exam over these two poems will be bonus questions 46. Paraphrase this excerpt from On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer? Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne [realm]; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene [clear air] Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold all his men / Looked at each other with a wild surmise / Silent 47. What do you think Keats means in these lines from When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be / Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain? I may never live to trace / Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance 48. In On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer, what does Keats mean by the

7 realms of gold? 49. In When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be, what is Keats symbolizing in the image of high-piled books that Hold like rich garners the full ripened grain? The Victorian Period Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave? by Hardy 50. In Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?, who is digging on the speaker's grave? 51.Explain the dark humor in the poem Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave? 52.Explain the irony in Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave? 53.What is the main idea of the poem? To an Athlete Dying Young, and When I Was One and Twenty, by A.E. Housman 54.Which lines from To an Athlete Dying Young suggest that glory does not last? 55.What advice is the speaker given in When I Was One-and-Twenty?

8 Moderns Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, by Dylan Thomas 57.In Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, the wise men do not go gentle into that good night because. 58.Define style. 59.The speaker in Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night tries to convince his father what? 60.What is the theme of Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night 61.What line serves to directly advance the theme of Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night? Frankenstein, Mary Shelley 62.Knowing that he has caused all of the suffering, how does Victor feel? 63.Where does Victor confront the Creature? 64.Who is condemned to death for William s murder?

9 65.What does Victor do once he brings the Creature to life? 66.What request does the Creature make to Frankenstein? 67.What is Safie s relationship to the DeLaceys? 68.What does Walton s crew ask him to do? 69.For what Victor is arrested? 70.Whom does the Creature kill while Victor is on his honeymoon? 71.In the end what does the Creature plan to do? 72.Victor first tells whom about the Creature? 73.After Victor tells the Creature that he will not create a companion of him, the Creature says,.