English Final Deck

What was the key idea/driving force behind the Renaissance?

a desire for more power and knowledge

What makes Everyman an allegory?

the characters represent abstract ideas

What is God’s problem with humanity in Everyman? What have they done to upset him?

they practice the seven deadly sins

Where did Everyman go when he died

to heaven

What does the excerpt of Dr. Faustus say about the period?

people wanted power and knowledge

What did Marlowe rely on in his play of Dr. Faustus?

people believing in the power of Satan/demons

What emotion does Faustus feel as he bargains for his soul?

regret

What is the theme of Dr. Faustus?

A promise made is a debt unpaid (if you make a promise you need to keep it)

What does Mak steal from the other shepherds, where does he take it, and how does he hide it?

a sheep, in his house, he and his wife pretend it’s their baby

Why do the other shepherds go back to the house, and how do they punish Mak for his misbehavior?

They go back to give the baby gifts, and wrap Mak in a blanket and toss him around

What gifts do the shepherds give the baby Jesus?

cherries, a bird, and a ball

What language is Othello written in?

Early Modern English

What is it called when a character is alone on stage and talking to the audience?

Soliloquy

What is Othello’s tragic flaw?

Jealousy

What is Iago often called?

Honest Iago

Why does Othello go to Cyprus?

He is sent to fight the Turks

Why did Emilia give Iago Desdemona’s handkerchief?

He’d been asking her to steal it and she wanted to keep him happy

What foreshadows Desdemona’s death?

singing the “Willow” song

What does Desdemona say with her dying breath?

she killed herself (lying about her death)

How many dead people are on the death bed at the end of Othello?

3

What is Screwtape’s relationship with Wormwood?

Uncle

When does the patient convert to Christianity?

between the first and second letter

Who is the protagonist of The Screwtape Letters?

Screwtape

What are the 4 sources of laughter?

• Joy

• Joke Proper

• Fun

• Flippancy

Why is the patient uncertain about what his duties will be during WW2?

doesn’t know if he wants to be a conscientious objector or some other position

Why is the patient’s mother a glutton, according to Screwtape?

Perfectionist with food/service

What does hell resemble?

A corporate office

What experiences lead to the reawakening of the patient’s faith?

Reading a book and taking a walk

Why does Wormwood report Screwtape to the authorities of Hell?

Screwtape says that God loves humans

What is the woman and her family’s attitude towards Christianity?

born-again Christians

When Screwtape gets angry what does he transform into?

a centipede

Which according to Screwtape is an influence of hell on earth?

the flapper girl

How does Screwtape describe the present moment?

the point where the past touches the future

Why does Screwtape hate the woman?

She either hurts efforts to secure the patent or is too hard to shake in her faith

How does Screwtape feel about the slum trumpet?

It’s not doing anything to help his efforts

What does it mean to be “merely Christian”?

going to church but not actually practicing the lifestyle (getting lazy with your faith)

On the plane, I was unlucky enough to sit in front of an ________ mother who did not seem to care about her child kicking the back of my seat

insouciant

In a remarkable display of ________, Jack Hills, while at the Los Alamos National Lab in 1988, predicted…

presience

Sunday church attendance in our family is ________ and should not be interrupted…

sacrosanct

Because it had been ________ around Venice that Othello and Emilia had an affair…

bruited

Shakespeare begins Othello ________, introducing characters…

in medias res

The bread maker always gives the butcher loaves in exchange for beef as a kind of ________.

quid pro quo

There is an endless controversy about which sermons are better: written or ________.

extemporized

The contractor’s continuous requests of his boss for more money with which to purchase materials for nonexistent projects proved to be a ________.

canard

A 55-word sentence in a 130-page ________ budget bill requires the agencies to do a cost benefit…

omnibus

In heaven, faithful Christians will receive ________ that will never decay or tarnish.

laurels

Our deepest encounter with God is sometimes almost ________, almost inexpressible.

ineffable

The Bible encourages the believer to exhibit patient endurance to the end without murmuring or ________.

imprecation

When she saw the upsetting news on television, Julia began to ________ to her family about the protesters.

fulminate

Friendship was viewed by many to be the ________ of a quality relationship.

sine qua non

One goal of The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis is to ________ the efforts of Satan’s demonic minions to mislead Christians.

lampoon

Both the boys, Tony and (he/him), have experience on that computer.

he

Their parents did everything to encourage Anny and (they/them)

them

Surely you can do the job as well as (she/her)

she

Fortunately for me, no one did better than (I/me)

I

Success means more to some people than (she/her)

her

(Who/Whom) has the President recommended for Secretary of State?

Whom

Will Ferrel, the 2011 prize winner, was born in Irvine, CA. He earned a degree in sports journalism and, went on to work as a sportscaster on a weekly television show for a while.

and, —> and

Even earlier, Ferrel had shown, that his humor could entertain his elementary school classmates.

shown, —>shown

A comic who’s considered on of the most influential performers of the 20th century, accepted the Mark Twain Prize in 2012. The 2012 winner, Ellen DeGeneres, has been praised as a writer, an actor, and a humanitarian.

century, —> century

Saturn, the second largest planet is ten times larger than Earth.

planet —> planet,

On 1/7/1948, some people in Louisville, Kentucky, reported a UFO and described its appearance as silvery, cone-shaped and about three hundred feet in diameter.

cone-shaped —>cone-shaped,

In fact, Isaac ________ five trees on all of his land.

has but

Isaac was ________ more excited in his life than on the day the saplings arrived.

never

Neither my friends nor I had ________ to go that day, so we offered to help plant the trees.

anywhere

We never stopped at ________ during the day and had all of the saplings planted by sundown.

any time

I ________ hardly keep myself from telling her about it.

could

What is the first step of the research paper process?

Selection and narrowing

What do you do in the selection and narrowing step?

Plan and Research

Why do we make a working outline when writing a research paper?

organize thoughts, guide reading/note-taking/source finding, act as skeleton for paper

Why do we make source cards?

gather bibliographic material for references

Why do we use notecards to take notes?

so we can rearrange info

How do you organize and take notes on note cards?

sort them into the order they’ll be used and start taking notes from the weakest source

Why do we start by taking notes from the weakest source?

In order to have a balance of sources in the paper

What is the step of writing a research paper that involves most of the actual writing?

Drafting

What goes with the revising part of the research paper process?

correcting content and organization

True/False: Abstracts should be written after the paper

True

True/False: You should put new information in the conclusion of your paper

False

What do you put in internal citations?

Author and date of publication, page number (if applicable), paragraph number (if desired)