Moby Dick MCQ pep

Allusion -

a reference to something

• Appositive

• a noun or noun phrase that renames, redefines, or explains another noun or noun phrase right next to it

  • My sister, griselda

• Apostrophe

• direct address to something non existence or absent

  • Hello darkness, my old friend

• Inversion

• the grammatical word order of is switched SVO (subject-verb-object) is changed to VSO or OVS

  • Never have I seen that man (instead of I have never seen that man)

• The cape of good hope

• Pequod rounds the southern tip of Africa symbolizing passage into the mysterious Pacific

Indian Ocean

• Major hunting area, several encounters with whales and other ships

Pacific Ocean

• Symbolizing the vast, unpredictable, sublime

• Where the chase happens

• Where pip gets left

Equatorial Seas

• Meetings with other vessels that provide warnings or omens

• The rachel - missing its son

• The Delight - chase moby d and 5 were killed, omen

• Japan Grounds

• One of the richest whaling regions

• Pequod hunts here when ahab grows more intense in his pursuit

Starbuck, 1

1. Serious principled Quaker from nantucket, moral center, uneasy about Ahab's obsession

2. Remains loyal despite questioning Ahab’s madness, dies in the chase

Stubb 2

1. Easygoing, humor, detached, addicted to his pipe

2. Dies in the chase

Flask 3

1. Short, aggressive, approaches whaling with brute force rather  than philosophy

2. Dies in the chase

• Queequeg (starbucks harpooner)

• From fictional island in the south Pacific

• Skilled, calm, Carries a tomahawk pipe

• “Othered” by the crew but respected

• Falls ill and builds a coffin in anticipation for his death, recovers, dies in the chase

• Tashtego (Subb’s)

• Native American from Martha’s Vineyard

• Fierce, skilled, quick, agile

• One of the fastest and most capable, dies in the chase

• Daggoo (flask’s)

• Big strong African

• Known for his physical strength

• Dies in the chase

• Fedallah (Ahab’s secret harpooner)
  

• Parsee (Zoroastrian, fled from Persia) (Asian?)

• Smuggled abroad by Ahab, leader of Ahab's mysterious group of men

• Prophetic, eerie, predicts parts of Ahab’s death, omen

• Killed on the first day of the chase when he is tangled in a harpoon line and dragged under by moby dick

• Corpse lashed to his back