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This collection explores various literary works such as Macbeth, Lord of the Flies, Troy, Beowulf, and Gulliver's Travels. It also delves into literary techniques like internal rhyme and the oral tradition. Included are summaries, analyses, and discussions of these works along with their historical and cultural significance.
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Exam Review Brad Jones
Macbeth • Macbeth and his • Wife plotting • Duncan's death
Lord of the flies • Ralphs group trying • To convince Jacks group • That they need to work • Together
Troy • Story of Achilles trying to get • Helen back.
Helen of Troy • Story of Paris love of Helen, the • Spartan Queen.
Beowulf • Story of a furious • Warrior who has to • Defeat a furious beast.
Gulliver’s Travels • Lemmal Gulliver, who has returned • Home, after having an odyssey of 10 • Years. Tries to convince people that • His journeys are true.
Internal Rhyme • An internal rhyme is a rhyme that happens within a single line of poetry. • Ex. "while I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping."
Oral tradition • is cultural material and tradition transmitted orally from one generation to another.
Lord Randall • A ballad of a mother and son. The mother is wondering where her son went to. After a long conversation the son is though to be poisoned by his true love.
Get up and bar the door. • A ballad about a husband and wife, who are deciding who should bar the door. They make a bet that whoever spoke again would have to lock the door. They don’t speak until the house was broken into. When they were talking bout doing things to the man and woman the husband spoke losing the bet and had bar the door.
Who wrote Gulliver’s Travels? Jonathan Swift
Definition of Hiatus • A pause or gap in a sequence, series, or process.