English IV Final Exam Review Fall 2014 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
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? II. The Prince (textbook pages 454­458) 14. What does Machaivelli seem to think about human nature? 15. Why does he think it is important for a leader to be loved AND feared? 16. What kind of techniques does Machiavelli use in this treatise to persuade his audience? 17. What kind of evidence does he use? 18. What does Machiavelli mean by stating that a leader should be a lion and a fox? 19. What are the five virtues he thinks are important and which is the most important? 20. What does he say is most important to people that a prince should avoid doing? III. Macbeth (textbook pages 340­432) 21. When was the play written and by whom? 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 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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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” “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”