ENGLISH IV REVIEW FOR FALL SEMESTER FINAL 2014
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.
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II.
ANGLO-SAXON POETRY:
a. Beowulf: Be sure that you know the basic plot, literary elements, and themes in the epic poem
(fate/wyrd, Christian vs. Pagan beliefs, etc.)
b. The Seafarer: Read the following Anglo-Saxon poem found on p.104 in your textbook, and
analyze it for literary elements such as: caesuras, kennings, alliteration, and other types of
figurative language. In addition, be able to recognize the theme(s) in the work that share a
connection to some of those in Beowulf. A similar Anglo-Saxon poem will be on your exam. Also,
the following questions are to help you in your analysis of the poem.
1. In “The Seafarer,” what causes the Seafarer to keep returning to the sea?
a. the need to earn a living
b. his belief in God and Fate
c. a lack of pleasure on land
d. his own inner need to return
2. The imagery in lines 31–32 of “The Seafarer” creates a mood of
a. invigorating challenge
b. mild unpleasantness
c. bleak desolation
d. general terror
3. Lines 109–115 of “The Seafarer” explain that people must
a. seek riches
b. avoid violence
c. harm enemies
d. accept their fates
4. The imagery in lines 27–33 of “The Seafarer” contrasts
a. laziness of life on land with physical hardship
b. misfortune of city life with fortune found at sea
c. light of life on land with the cold of the ocean
d. passion of city life with the desolation of the sea
5. The speaker in “The Seafarer” shows a pessimistic view of life by explaining that
a. fate brings illness, age, or death each day
b. God’s mercy will save those on Earth
c. death brings earthly praise
d. only the strong survive
6. According to the speaker in “The Seafarer,” how has the world changed?
a. People no longer fear God.
b. It has lost its former glory.
c. The power of Fate has lessened.
d. The sons of princes have taken everything.
7. What mood does the imagery in lines 88–93 of “The Seafarer” express?
a. acceptance of the inevitability of decay
b. anger at the mistakes men make
c. worry about impending death
d. despair over lost wealth
III.
CANTERBURY TALES: Review the General Prologue, the Pardoner’s Tale, and the Wife of Bath,
paying special attention to the literary elements and writing style that Chaucer uses. On the exam you
will be analyzing another of Chaucer’s tales from this text.
IV.
SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT: There will be questions about the plot and literary
elements used in this medieval story that we read in class previously.
V.
MACBETH: Be familiar with the main characters, motivation of each, the tragic flaws apparent (if
any), attitudes of characters, attitude of the author towards main characters and major themes.
Understand and be able to explain the significance of the following quotes.
Malcolm.
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.
Lady Macbeth.
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. . .
Macbeth.
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.
Donalbain.
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.
Macbeth.
Murderer.
Macbeth.
There’s blood on thy face
“Tis Banquo’s then.
“Tis better thee without than he within.
Lady Macduff.
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.
Macduff.
Boundless intemperance
In nature is a tyranny. It hath been
The untimely emptying of the happy throne,
And fall of many kings.
Macbeth. 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.
Doctor.
Foul whisperings are abroad. Unnatural deeds
Do breed unnatural troubles. Infected minds
To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.
Macbeth.
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?
Macbeth.
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
Macbeth.
I’gin to be aweary of the sun,
And wish the estate o’ the world were now undone
Ring the alarum bell! Blow, wind! Come, Wrack!
At least we’ll die with harness on our back.