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English IV Final Exam Review
Fall 2013
This final exam review is worth 10 points extra credit on your final exam grade if it
is completed (no partial credit awarded). Turn in with your final exam.
I. Beowulf (your textbook pages 38­70)
1. Why is Beowulf as a piece of literature significant?
2. How was it written and by whom?
3. What are some characteristics of oral tradition?
4. Be able to identify the following from Beowulf:
a. Beowulf
b. Grendel
c.
Herot
d. Hrothgar
e. Hrunting
f. Edgethow
g. Wiglaf
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5. Identify the following literary devices and be able to recognize their use in lines from
Beowulf:
a. kenning
b. simile
c. metaphor
d. alliteration
e. personification
f. allusion
g. caesura
6. What is the setting of Beowulf?
7. Why is Beowulf considered to be an epic (be familiar with characteristics of this poetic
form, including the hero, the conflict, themes)
characteristics of the form:
themes:
characteristics of the hero (background, what is important to the hero during life and
after):
8. Why does Beowulf fight the dragon in the end?
9. Why don’t others help him?
10. How is Grendel powerful?
11. What are his habits in regards to preying on humans?
12. How does Beowulf compare to a modern hero (similarities/dissimilarities)?
13. How does the poem reflect morals and values of the Danes?
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II. Animal Farm
14. How is Animal Farm a satire?
15. Why is it also an allegory and what is this novel an allegory for?
16. Why is it a fable?
17. Know why the following events, characters, or things are important to the animals and
the novel:
a. Old Major
b. Animalism
c. Mr. Jones
d. Manor Farm
e. Animal Farm
f. “Beasts of England”­­its importance in the beginning of the novel to how that
changes by the end
g. Moses (what does he “preach”?)
h. purpose of Commandments and how it changes by the end of the novel
i. Napoleon and the power he uses over the other animals
j. Snowball
How is he a threat to Napoleon?
k. the windmill­­what it represents and whose idea originally?
How was it destroyed the first time: second time:
l. Boxer and his saying:
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Why does he follow Napoleon so easily?
m. Battle of Cowshed­­what does it represent in history?
n. Pigs gain power and how they change
o. Benjamin­­how he’s different from other animals
p. Squealer and what he represents historically
q. Battle of the Windmill ­­ what does it represent historically?
r. the sheep
18. Which historical figures do the animals represent?
a. Old Major
b. the Dogs
c. Boxer
d. Snowball
19. Compare and contrast Snowball’s and Napoleon’s leadership styles, goals, and
beliefs.
20. How are Animal Farm and Macbeth alike?
III. Macbeth (textbook pages 340­432)
21. When was the play written and by whom?
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22. What is the setting? time period __________________ place______________
23. For whom did Shakespeare write Macbeth?
24. What kind of poetry does Shakespeare use to write most of this play?
25. How are the witches’ lines different?
Why are they different?
26. What do you learn about Macbeth in the beginning of the play?
What is Macbeth’s title in the beginning?
27. Who does Macbeth slay in the beginning of the novel?
28. Who else commits treason in the beginning of the novel?
29. What do the witches prophesy for Macbeth?
30. What do they prophesy for Banquo?
31. Know who the following characters are and why their roles are important. Think about
how some of them affect what Macbeth sees as his destiny:
a. Weird Sisters
b. Macbeth
c. Banquo
d. Lady Macbeth
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e. MacDonalwald
f. the dagger
g.. Fleance
h. Malcolm
i. Donalbain
j. Duncan
k. Ross
l. Captain
m. Porter (and comic relief)
n. Banquo’s ghost
o. Birnam Wood
p. Dunsinane Hill
q.Banquo’s murderers (Macbeth’s reason for them to kill Banquo)
r. Scone
s. bloodstain
t. eye of newt
u. the doctor in Act V
32. Why does Macbeth order the deaths of Banquo and Fleance?
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a.
b.
33. How do the characters of Lady Macbeth and Macbeth change after the murder of
King Duncan?
34. What prophecies do the apparitions make for Macbeth in Act IV?
35. How does Macbeth react to the invasion of his castle?
36. How does he react to the news about his wife?
37. Be able to identify who said the following quotes, to whom, and the quote’s
significance:
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair” (I.i.12)
“Where we are, there’s daggers in men’s smiles...”
“Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?”
“There’s no art / To find the mind’s construction in the face./He was a gentleman on whom I
built / An absolute trust”
“Come, you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, ? And fill me from the
crown to the toe topf­full / Of direst cruelty”
“Look like th’ innocent / flower, / But be the serpent under ‘t”
“Double, double toil and trouble; / Fire burn, and caldron bubble.”
“Alas, poor country, ? Almost afraid to know itself.../ Where sighs and groans and shrieks
that rent the air / Are made, not marked”
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“Out damned spot, out, I say! One. Two. / Why then, ‘tis time to do’t.”
“Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow / Creeps in this petty pace from day to day”