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Study Guide
The English IV midterm exam will cover all the significant material we have studied so
far this year. The exam will be composed of two essay questions and a few short
answer questions. The material on this study guide is intended to help you prepare for
the essay responses.
1.
Definition
Satire
Exaggeration
Reversal
Incongruity
Parody
Dystopia
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2. Review the list of commonly satirized human follies or institutions (see attached).
3. Read the attached article “Love Thy PlayStation” and complete the evidence
analysis grid.
4. Describe the parts of the hero cycle.
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5. Annotate and analyze the following quotations from Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
From “The Son of a Brahmin”
Within himself Siddhartha had begun to nourish discontent. He had begun to feel the
love of his father and the love of his mother and even the love of his friend Govinda
would not forever delight him, soothe him, satisfy him and suffice him. He had begun to
surmise that him venerable father and his other teachers, that these wise Brahmins
had already conveyed the majority and best part of their wisdom, that they had
already poured out their plenty into his waiting vessel, and the vessel was not full, the
mind was not satisfied, the soul was not calmed and the heart was not stilled.
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From “Among the Shramanas”
Siddhartha learned a great deal from the Shramanas; he learned many ways of losing
the Self. He traveled along the path of self-denial through pain, through voluntary
suffering and conquering of pain, through hunger, thirst and fatigue. He traveled the
way of self-denial through meditation, through the emptying of the mind through all
images. Along these and other paths did he learn to travel. He lost his Self a thousand
times and for days on end he dwelt in non-being. But although the paths took him away
from Self, in the end they always led back to it.
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From “The Awakening”
[T]here is one thing that this clear, worthy instruction does not contain; it does not
contain the secret of what the Illustrious One himself experienced—he alone among
hundreds of thousands. That is what I thought and realized when I heard your
teachings. That is why I am going on my way—not to seek another doctrine, for I know
there is none, but to leave all doctrines and all teachers and to reach my goal alone—
or die.
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From “Govinda”
And so Govinda saw, this [Siiddhartha’s] smile of the mask, this smile of unity above the
streaming forms, this smile of simultaneity, above the thousand births and deaths, this
smile of Siddhartha’s was exactly like, was exactly the same, tranquil, fine impenetrable,
perhaps benevolent, perhaps scornful, wise, thousandfold smile of Guatama, of the
Buddha, as he himself beheld it with awe hundreds of times. This, Govinda knew, was
how the Perfect One smiled.
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