Honors English I - Final Exam

Juliet

a Capulet; secretly loves Romeo, her enemy; Capulet and Lady Capulet are her parents; faked her death; stabbed herself

Paris

arranged to marry Juliet; killed by Romeo; thought Juliet was dead

Mercutio

kinsman of the Prince; Romeo’s friend; killed by Tybalt; avenged by Romeo; cursed both houses

Prince Escalus

the Prince of Verona; in charge of Verona; warns both houses to stop fighting; banishes Romeo

Benvolio

Montague’s nephew; friend of Romeo; warns Mercutio against fighting Tybalt; tries to cheer up Romeo about Rosaline

Romeo

a Montague; secretly loves Juliet, his enemy; Montague and Lady Montague are his parents; poisoned himself

Tybalt

newphew of Lady Capuler; Juliet’s cousin; loves to fight; killed Mercutio; killed by Romeo

Nurse

Juliet’s personal caretaker and servant; finds Juliet faking her death; tells Juliet to marry Paris

Friar John

friend of Friar Lawrence; told to deliver a letter to Romeo; is quarantined so he did not deliver the letter

Friar Lawrence

apparently a Montague; marries Romeo and Juliet; Romeo’s friend and guide; gives Juliet the potion

Rosaline

the girl Romeo originally loved; did not love Romeo back; celibate

William Shakespeare

wrote Romeo and Juliet; married Anne Hathaway; had three kids; Hamnet died at 11, which may be why Shakespeare wrote tragedies

Who is Romeo first in love with?

Rosaline

Why does Romeo go to the Capulet masquerade ball?

because Rosaline will be there

Why does Friar Lawrence agree to marry Romeo and Juliet?

he thinks it will end the feud between the families

How does Romeo sneak into Juliet’s garden?

he climbs the wall to the orchard

what happens when Romeo interferes with the fight between Mercutio and Tybalt?

Tybalt stabs Mercutio under Romeo’s arm and kills Mercutio

the first person to die In Romeo and Juliet

Mercutio, stabbed by Tybalt

Why did Mercutio and Tybalt fight

Mercutio was angry that Romeo refused to fight Tybalt after Tybalt insulted him, so Mercutio challenges Tybalt and Tybalt agrees to fight

who does Romeo confide in after killing Tybalt

Friar Lawrence

where does Romeo hide after killing Tybalt

in Friar Lawrence’s cell

What does Juliet think at first when the Nurse brings her news of Tybalt’s death

she thinks that Romeo is dead

what is Friar Lawrence’s plan to stop Juliet and Paris’ marriage

he tells Juliet to drink a potion that will fake her death; the next morning, the Capulets’ will find her dead and will bury her in the Capulet vault; through a letter, Romeo will know the plan, take Juliet, and run away together

who tells Romeo that Juliet is dead

Balthasar; Romeo’s friend and servant

why does Juliet’s father push the wedding up a day

she pretended to agree to marry Paris

what are the questions Juliet asks herself and worries about before drinking the potion?

she asks if it will not work; if the potion is poison; if she will wake up before Romeo reaches her; if she will go insane if she wakes up alone in the vault

how does Friar Lawrence’s plan fail

Friar John was with sick people and was forced to quarantine for a few days, so he did not deliver the letter to Romeo detailing the Friar’s plan; Romeo thought Juliet was dead and killed himself

why does Paris attack Romeo?

he thinks Romeo came to Juliet to desecrate her grave and disrespect her since he killed Tybalt

how do Romeo and Juliet die

Romeo drinks a poison since he thinks Juliet is dead; Juliet stabs herself with Romeo’s knife when she sees his dead body

what type of play is Romeo and Juliet

a tragedy

the last line of Romeo and Juliet

For there was never a story of more woe, than that of Juliet and her Romeo

what is a pun

a play on words; a joke where you show how a word has multiple meanings

what is poetry that is unrhymed

blank verse

a long speech on stage delivered by one character to hear their thoughts

soliloquoy

aside

one character speaks to the audience, usually about how they feel or to reveal something; the other characters cannot hear the aside

prologue

takes place before the story begins; an introduction

verbal irony

a character says one thing but means the opposite; sarcasm; expressing humor, anger, or frustration

couplet

two lines in poetry that rhyme and probably have the same meter and rhythm

dramatic irony

when the audience knows something that the characters do not

comic relief

a funny scene added in after a sad scene to lighten the mood

situational irony

when an unexpected outcome occurs

monologue

a long speech made by one character to other characters in a play

Who is Annabel Lee?

She is a maiden who used to live in a kingdom by the sea

What is the relationship between Annabel Lee and the speaker?

She is married to the speaker

why does the speaker emphasize the word “child” in the poem?

to show that their relationship began when they were young and immature children

what is the tone at the beginning of Annabel Lee versus the end?

beginning: joyful; end: melancholy and sad

what are seraphs

angels; they killed Annabel Lee

How does Annabel Lee die?

the angels in heaven were envious of their great relationship, so they made wind come out of a cloud that killed and chilled Annabel Lee

how does the speaker describe his and Lee’s love?

he describes his love as a love greater than anyone else’s and says that his love is stronger than the love of those older and wiser than him

what does the speaker do every night?

He dreams that he is lying down next to his wife in her tomb by the sea

what does the speaker mean when he says that the stars will never rise?

He means that he doesn’t see stars when they rise, but instead sees Annabel’s eyes, since the stars remind him of her eyes

Ezinma

Okonkwo’s favorite child; Okonkwo wished she was born a boy; became sick and was taken by Chielo

Ikemefuna

Okonkwo’s adopted son; given up by Mbaino to Umuofia to avoid war; very smart; killed by Okonkwo

Obierika

Okonkwo’s friend; questions tradition; visited Okonkwo in exile

Okonkwo

famous wrestler; has three wives; hates and fears weakness

Mr. Brown

the kind and compromising missionary; left due to old age and health reasons

Chielo

the priestess of Agbala; the Oracle of the Hills and Caves; loves Ezinma and calls her “my daughter”; took Ezinma to her cave

Ekwefi

Ezinma’s mother; Okonkwo’s second wife; known as the village beauty; bore 10 children but 9 died in infancy; treated Ezinma as her equal

Mr. Smith

the strict and uncompromising missionary who replaced Mr. Brown; refused to let the church be destroyed

Mr. Kiaga

missionary who went to Mbanta and converted Nwoye; an interpreter; he welcomes unwanted people to his church; seen as a harmless fool by the Igbo

Nwoye

Okonkwo’s oldest son; became tougher and less lazy due to Ikemefuna; converted to Christianity

Unoka

Okonkwo’s lazy father; died in heavy debt; could not provide for his family

obi

a hut

chi

a personal god; a benevolent spirit that does good for each person

egwugwu

masqueraders who impersonate the ancestral spirits of the village; nine in Umuofia; were jury in the trial

osu

outcasts who were unwelcomed by the rest of the Ibo; Mr. Kiara invited them to his church

Ani

the Igbo Earth goddess; honored during the Week of Peace and the New Yam Festival

bride-price

a price the groom has to pay the bride’s father/family in order to marry her

cowries

seashells; Umuofia’s currency

iba

a fever; Ezinma almost died from one

ilo

a park and green meeting space where people play sports or meet; where the trial took place

isa-ifi

a ceremony where the bride-to-be swears that she has not been with any other men

iyi-uwa

a special stone that links an ojbanje to the spiritual world; these rocks were meant to be destroyed so that the ojbanje would not die again and be reborn

kotma

court messengers; Africans hired by the British to enforce the law; mocked and called “ashy-buttocks”; they relate messages between the Igbo and missionaries

Why is Okonkwo famous

he beat Amalinze the Cat at wrestling; he is a famous wrestler

Why does Okonkwo despise his father

He was lazy and in debt; Okonkwo had no patience for unsuccessful men and feared that he would end up like Unoka

what is Okonkwo’s biggest pet peeve

unsuccessful men; laziness and weakness

How Okonkwo settles the dispute with the people from Mbaino

he takes one boy, Ikemefuna, and a virgin girl from Mbaino

how does a man achieve power in the Igbo society

gain titles; work hard and become wealthy; gain many wives

How does Okonkwo achieve his fortune

he worked hard as a sharecropper; he used a man’s yam seeds to build his farm

How Ikemefuna initially felt living with Okonkwo, and then over time

he was scared and sad at first, he missed his family; over time he became a popular boy in the house and called Okonkwo his father

How does Okonkwo break the week of peace

he beats his wife for braiding her hair

Who is Okonkwo’s favorite child and why

Ezinma, because she has a tough spirit; he wishes that she was born a boy

who kills Ikemefuna and why?

Umuofia decided to kill him; Okonkwo dealt the final blow because he didn’t want to appear weak

Who does Okonkwo accidentally shoot?

Ezeudu’s sixteen year old son

The price of Okonkwo killing Ezeudu’s son

Okonkwo was exiled for 7 years

What does Umuofia do to Okonkwo’s house and things when he leaves for exile

they burn his compound to the ground to cleanse the Earth

Where is Okonkwo’s exile

his motherland, Mbanta

what do Uchendu’s sons give Okonkwo

300 yam seeds to start a farm in Mbanta

who visits Okonkwo several times during his exile

Obierika

what attracts Nwoye to the missionaries? Does he join them?

He is attracted to the gentle and poetic aspects of Christianity, since it makes him feel better after Ikemefuna’s death; he becomes a missionary

how does Okonkwo react to Nwoye joining the missionaries

He beats him severely and strangles him, so Nwoye runs away

Okonkwo’s nickname in Mbanta

Roaring Flame

the most sacred animal in Mbanta

the python

what happens to the sacred animal? who kills it?

It was killed by Okoli

what do the villagers think the gods are doing after Okoli died?

they think that the gods are fighting back and had made Okoli die

who are the messages who guard the prison?

the korma, called the “ashy-buttocks”

Who is called the Crystal of Beauty in Mbanta?

Ezinma

what is the first thing Okonkwo plans to do when returning to his clan

he plans to build a bigger farm and build two new huts for his two wives

what does Mr. brown build

a school and a hospital