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2nd Semester Exam Review

2nd Semester Exam Review. abate. to reduce, lesson. absconded. to leave. anneal. to reduce brittleness by heating, then cooling. apogee. the farthest point from the earth in the orbit of a satellite or heavenly body, the highest point . auspices. protection. Auspicious. important.

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2nd Semester Exam Review

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  1. 2nd Semester ExamReview

  2. abate to reduce, lesson absconded to leave

  3. anneal to reduce brittleness by heating, then cooling apogee the farthest point from the earth in the orbit of a satellite or heavenly body, the highest point

  4. auspices protection Auspicious important

  5. Auxiliary helping blandishment word or deed of mild flattery

  6. calumnious falsely and maliciously accusing, defamatory collusion a secret agreement

  7. commissary a military store Commodious roomy

  8. Cozen to cheat determinate precisely defined

  9. dolorous sad Effluence garbage

  10. elocution the art of speaking Extol praise

  11. extorting to obtain by intimidation extraneous not essential

  12. garrulous talkative gauntlet glove used for protection in medieval times

  13. imperative necessary invidious arousing ill will

  14. laudatory expressing praise, eulogistic malevolent evil

  15. misanthropy hatred for mankind missal a prayer book

  16. mute make quiet myriad many

  17. ornithology study of birds ostentatious done to impress others

  18. parody a satirical imitation pastoral having to do with the country

  19. pathos the quality in events or art that arouses pity Patrician of nobility

  20. piece de resistance The main dish Polity one form of government

  21. Portend to foretell Posterity future generations

  22. Progeny children, descendants, offspring purloin to borrow or steal

  23. Qualm a doubt query to question

  24. responsive willing to answer reticence quietness

  25. retribution punishment; reprisal reviled to repulse

  26. salubrious healthful sanguine Confident; having a ruddy color

  27. sardonic bitterly sarcastic, mocking, sneering Sojourners people who stay temporarily

  28. soliloquy an actor’s speech to himself tableau a vivid description

  29. tacit silent; unspoken ulterior hidden

  30. undercurrent an underlying tendency

  31. Aphorism brief saying that embodies a moral; like a proverb Comic relief drunken porter at the gate in Macbeth

  32. Foreshadowing “Fair is foul and foul is fair…”Macbeth Act I, Scene I Allegory uses archetypal characters to advance story; like parable

  33. Denouement point where conflict is decided one way or another Renaissance re-birth

  34. Age of Reason the purpose of the literature was didactic (to teach); style was structured and polished

  35. Victorian Age era of the Industrial Revolution / highly civilized society Lyrical Ballads written by Wordsworth and Coleridge; sets forth formula for new type of poetry using common language

  36. his boyhood was a struggle for survival Dickens “Beauty is truth, truth is beauty.” Keats

  37. believed in the concept of “contraries” Blake

  38. MACBETH 1. Macbeth is the shortest of Shakespeare’s four major tragedies and was written to be performed for which king who had a fascination with witchcraft and supernatural phenomena? King James I 2. What does the witches’ line “Fair is foul, and foul is fair…” suggest? things are not what they seem

  39. MACBETH 3. After reading the letter, why does Lady Macbeth say she fears Macbeth’s nature? He is too kind to kill ruthlessly 4. Three statements about Macbeth he is very ambitioushe would like to be king of Scotlandhe would like to succeed honorably to the throne

  40. MACBETH 5. Why does Lady Macbeth pray to be “unsexed” ? wishes to be cruel, not weak or gentle 6. What does Macbeth’s vision of an imaginary dagger suggest? his disturbed conscience

  41. MACBETH 7. After Duncan’s murder what is Lady Macbeth and Macbeth’s psychological state? Macbeth is more distracted; Lady Macbeth is more in control 8. Is Lady Macbeth’s remark that “A little water clears us of this deed” both literally and psychologically true? literallytrue, but psychologically untrue

  42. MACBETH 9. In Act III why does Macbeth refer to his crown as “fruitless” and his scepter as “barren”? the witches predicted that Banquo’s descendants, not his, will be kings 10. How does Macduff fulfill the witches’ prophecy? he was taken from his mother’s womb before she could give birth to him

  43. GULLIVER’S TRAVELS 11. True or False Gulliver’s Travels mixes adventure and satire True 12. True or False Gulliver’s Travels was written as a children’s book False

  44. GULLIVER’S TRAVELS 13. True or False Gulliver’s Travels is an allegory protesting England’s oppression of Ireland False 14. Why does Swift satirizes modern European philosophers? disguising their ignorance by calling whatever they can’t explain a freak of nature

  45. GULLIVER’S TRAVELS 15. How can the Brobdingnagian King’s attitude toward political scientists BEST be described? contempt 16. How can the king’s reaction to Gulliver’s description of the uses of gunpowder BEST be described? moral outrage

  46. GULLIVER’S TRAVELS 17. The king’s comment that “the bulk of your natives (are) the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth” is prompted by Gulliver’s description of what? English society and government

  47. GULLIVER’S TRAVELS 18. What is Brobdingnag really? an imaginary place

  48. DAVID COPPERFIELD 19. What three techniques does Dickens use to characterize Mr. Murdstone? description of his physical traits, description of his speech and behavior, showing the effect he has on David’s mother

  49. DAVID COPPERFIELD 20. What is the primary way in which the reader gets to know David? sharing his thoughts and feelings 21. Who are the events narrated by? David as an adult recalling his childhood

  50. DAVID COPPERFIELD 22. What does the Brooks of Sheffield incident illustrate? young David’s failure to understand adult conversation

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