ENGLISH CN REVIEW FOR SPRING SEMESTER English IV FINAL 2017
I.
LITERARY TERMS: Be sure that you know and can recognize the following terms. Examples of these will be on
the exam and you will be asked to identify them. Definitions and examples of each term can be found in the back of
your literature book in the Glossary of Literary Terms beginning on p. R104 or in the literary terms packet found on
my CHS website.
imageryhyperboletheme-
simile-
tone-
metaphor-
mood-
hyperbole-
dramatic irony-
couplet-
situational irony-
quatrain-
verbal irony-
shift-
symbolism-
sonnet-
paradox-
apostrophe-
II. POETRY: RENAISSANCE, RESTORATION, ROMANTIC, VICTORIAN AND CONTEMPORARY PERIODS
a.
Reread the following poems that we discussed in class during this semester (each of which can be found in your
textbook and the reading comprehension questions are posted online) and be sure that you understand the basic
themes, literary elements, and figurative language used within each poem. All of the poems listed below will be
provided in the reading packet for the exam, too.
b. Another example of poetry from one of these time periods may be on your exam, too.
Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 116”, p. 321
Spencer’s “Sonnet 75”, p. 329
“Written at the Close of Spring” by Charlotte Smith, p. 704
“The Lorelei” by Heinrich Heine, p. 792
“from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” by Lord Byron, p. 854-56
“Ulysses” by Lord Tennyson, p. 936-37
“Musee Des Beaux Arts” by W.H. Auden, p. 1176
III. RENAISSANCE PERIOD: SHAKESPEARE’S MACBETH
a. Be familiar with the characters and make sure that you can identify their role in the play. The following link is a
helpful reference: http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/macbeth/characters.html
b. In addition, for each of the following quotes: know the speaker, identify the context or setting, where applicable:
identify who is being addressed, and be able to paraphrase and/or explain its significance in the play. Also, be
able to identify all literary elements in the quotes.
Act I, scene 4, lines 7-11
Nothing in his life
Became him like the leaving it. He died
As one that had been studied in his death
To throw away the dearest thing he owned,
As 'twere a careless trifle.
Act II, scene 1, lines 32-34
Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Act I, scene 5, lines 22-25
Hie thee hither,
That I may pour my spirits in thine ear,
And chastise with the valor of my tongue
All that impedes thee from the golden round. . .
Act II, scene 3, lines 130-33
Our separated fortune
Shall keep us both the safer. Where we are,
There's daggers in men's smiles. The near in blood,
The nearer bloody.
Act IV, scene 2, lines 9-11
He wants the natural touch.
For the poor wren, The most diminutive of birds, will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl
Act IV, scene 2, lines 69-73
Whither should I fly?
I have done no harm. But I remember now
I am in this earthly world, where to do harm
Is often laudable, to do good sometime
Accounted dangerous folly.
Act IV, scene 3, lines 66-69
Boundless intemperance
In nature is a tyranny. It hath been
The untimely emptying of the happy throne,
And fall of many kings.
Act V, scene 3, lines 24-28
And that which should accompany old age,
As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,
I must not look to have; but, in their stead,
Curses, not loud but deep, mouth honor, breath,
Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Act V, scene 5, lines 17-28
She should have died hereafter.
There would have been a time for such a word.
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle.
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Act V, scene 3, lines 39-45
Cure her of that.
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,
Raze out the written troubles of the brain,
And with some sweet oblivious antidote
Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff
Which weighs upon the heart?
LATE RENAISSANCE PERIOD: SHAKESPEARE’S HAMLET
c. Be familiar with the characters and make sure that you can identify their role in the play. The following link is a
helpful reference: http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/hamlet/characters.html
d. In addition, for each of the following quotes: know the speaker, identify the context or setting, where applicable:
identify who is being addressed, and be able to paraphrase and/or explain its significance in the play. Also, be
able to identify all literary elements in the quotes.
…God hath given you one face,
Act I
“But I have that within which passeth show…”
and you make yourselves another:
you jig, you amble, and you lisp,…”
Act II
“Lord Hamlet,…
Act III, Scene 2
with a look so piteous in purport,
“Give me that man
As if he had been loosed out of hell
That is not passion’s slave,
To speak of horrors,-he comes before me.”
and I will wear him In my heart’s core,
ay, in my heart of heart,
“But what might you think,
As I do thee.”
When I had seen this hot love on the wingAs I perceived it, I must tell you that, . .
Act III, Scene 3-4
What might you,
“I…do this same villain send to heav’n.
Or my dear Majesty your Queen here, think,
O, this is hire and salary, not revenge…
If I had play’d the desk or table-book;
To take him in the purging of his soul,
Or given my heart a winking, mute, and dumb,
When he is fit and season’d for his passage? No!
Or look’d upon this love with idle sight;
Up, sword;”
What might you think?”
Act IV
“brevity is the soul of wit”
“Sure, he that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not
“…the play’s the thing,
That capability and god-like reason
Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.”
To fust in us unus’d.
Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion,
or some craven scruple
Act III, Scene 1
“The harlot’s cheek, beautied with plast’ring art,
Of thinking too precisely on the event,”
Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it,
Than is my deed to my most painted word: O, heavy burden!”
Act V
“I have heard of your paintings too, well enough;…
“by the image of my cause, I see/ The portraiture of his…”
III.