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Describe "oral tradition"
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A story passed down generations through words
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Describe an "epic"
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A long poem that tells about a hero
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In Beowulf, why does Beowulf said with with his chosen companions to hrothgar's kingdom?
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To get fame, glory, and treasure
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What makes Beowulf honorable?
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He kills Grendel with his hands so it was a fair fight.
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In Beowulf, Wiglaf thinks he and his comrades should help Beowulf fight the dragon, why?
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Beowulf had done a lot for them & they think they need to repay him
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In Beowulf, when the dying Beowulf gives Wiglaf his gold necklace, the gesture means that?
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Beowulf is passing down his rulership to Wiglaf.
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Why do they hang Grendel's arm in the banquet hall?
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As a trophy
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When Beowulf requests that he alone "may purge all evil for this hall", what does he mean by purge?
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Eliminate/kill
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What are examples of pagan religion found in Beowulf?
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They have more than one God.
Grendel is made of everything bad.
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What are examples of Christianity found in Beowulf?
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Grendel is the descendant of Adam & Eve's murderer son.
They thank God.
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Beowulf: Hrunting is what?
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The sword
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How long did Grendel cause problems for the Danes?
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12 years
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Grendel couldn't harm Hrothgar's throne, why?
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It's protected by God.
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Beowulf changes throughout the story, how?
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He becomes old and greedy.
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How does Beowulf die?
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Wounds from dragon fight
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Beowulf: How was the movie different from the story we read?
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In the movie:
Hrothgar's is Grendel's son.
Beowulf reproduced with Grendel's mother
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Beowulf: Interpret "the monsters thoughts were as quick as his greed or his claws"
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He's smart, quick, and greedy.
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Beowulf: paraphrase - then the sword/ melded, blood-soaked, dripping down / like water, disappearing like ice when the worlds / eternal lord loosens invisible / fetters and unwinds icicles and frost
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Comparing the sword to winter melting into spring
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Decrible vernacular
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Common language of the people
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What do "Canterbury Tales" wrestle with?
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Right/wrong, morality
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Canterbury: Why does each character tell a story?
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They're having a story telling competition
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Canterbury: how many characters are there?
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29
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Canterbury: Where does the narrator meet them?
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A shrine in Canterbury.
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Canterbury: List 5 characters on this journey.
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Cook
Knight
Nun
Farmer
Pardoner
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Describe the plot of the Nun's Priest's tale.
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The fox traps the rooster, the rooster outsmarts the fox.
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Canterbury: what is the theme/lesson of the Nun's Priest's tale?
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Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me.
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Canterbury: What does the fox represent?
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The devil
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What challenge does the green knight present to kind Arthur and his knights at the beginning of the story?
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If they cut off his head, he can come back in one year and do the same to them.
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Why does the Gawain take up the challenge and not King Arthur?
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He doesn't want to kingdom to look bad.
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What is unusual about the green knight?
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He is green, he can't die, he can talk with his head chopped off
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How does the green knight test Gawain?
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He tests his character with his wife.
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What is the green know testing of gawains?
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His character/morality
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Morte d' Arthur: Describe Arthur's dream
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He's on his throne & under him is a pit with scary creatures in it.
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Morte d' Arthur: What does Gawain advise Arthur to do?
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Make a treaty because if he fights Mordrid he will die.
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Morte d' Arthur: The two leaders of their armies meet to do what?
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Make a treaty
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Morte d' Arthur: How does the battle start?
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A sword is pulled because someone tries to kill a snake.
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Morte d' Arthur: as night falls, how many men are left standing on the battlefield?
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2
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Sir be diverse disappoints kind Arthur by doing what?
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He tries to keep the sword.
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What happens to kind Arthur's sword in the end?
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The lady of the lake takes the sword.
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How does kind Arthur get to Avalon?
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On the boat with 3 beautiful women
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"HIC IACET ARTHURUS, REX QUONDAM REXQUE FUTURUS" means what?
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Once and future king
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Morte d' Arthur: how does this take constitute as a medieval romance?
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Knights, beautiful women, battles, quests
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What is an octave?
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8 lines
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What is a sestet?
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6 lines
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What is a couplet?
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2 lines
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What is a quatrain?
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4 lines
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What is the Volta?
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Changing from problem to solution
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How many lines are in a sonnet?
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14
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What are the three sonnet forms that we discussed as a class?
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Italian, English, spenserian
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What is another name of an Italian sonnet?
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Percharchan
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What is another name for an English sonnet?
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Shakespearian
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Rhyme scheme of an Italian sonnet?
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ABBAABBA
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Rhyme scheme of a Spenserian sonnet?
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ABABBCBCDCDCEE
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Rhyme scheme of a Shakespearian sonnet?
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ABABCDCDEFEFGG
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King Duncan decides decides to make Macbeth Than of Cawdor because
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The past thane of Cawdor was a traitor and died
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When Macbeth receives his new title, banquo reacts with
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Jealousy
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After reading the letter from her husband, lady Macbeth calls upon the spirits to
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To be made insensitive
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Macbeth: what is a paradox?
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Saying one thing that contradicts
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Near the end of act l, Macbeth expressed doubt about murdering the king because
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The king thought he was a good subject & good host
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In the first act, Duncan's attitude toward Macbeth is best described as
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He thinks highly of him
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Lady Macbeth's remark that her husband is "too full o' th' milk of human kindness" indicates that SHE is
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Strong, ruthless, brave
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What is Macbeth's tragic flaw?
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Ambition, too power hungry
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What is a tragedy?
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Sad, people die
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What is important about the dagger that Macbeth sees?
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It's a hallucination.
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When Macbeth talks agitatedly about the murders, lady Macbeth urges him to
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Forget & don't dwell on it
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Macbeth: the porter's cursing is ironic because
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He compares Macbeth's house to hell
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As soon as the murder becomes known, Malcolm and donalbain flee Scotland because they
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Don't want to be killed
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Does lady Macbeth know about banquo's murder?
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No
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When Macbeth begins talking to Banquo's ghost, lady Macbeth reacts by doing what?
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It's normal, it will pass
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Hectate intends to ensure Macbeth's downfall by making him what?
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Over-confident, telling him that nothing can kill him.
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What three things must happen for Macbeth to be defeated?
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Macduff,
Only someone, not born of a women can kill him
When burnum wood moves to the castle
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Who actually murders lady macduff and her children?
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Murderers
