English Final Deck

Early Renaissance Drama 

  • Renaissance was about knowing more and being able to achieve more (what Dr. Faustus was talking about) 

  • Everyman 

    • Allegory - characters in the story represent abstract ideas

    • Problem with the people (God is upset) - they practice the seven deadly sins

    • Everyman - went to heaven 

  • Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marloew 

    • What does the excerpt we read say about the period - people had a desire to go beyond the average boundaries of knowledge and power (wanted power and knowledge)

    • What did Marloew rely on - people believing in the power of Satan/ demons

    • What emotion does Faustus feel as he bargains for his soul - regret 

    • What is the theme - if you make a promise you need to keep it (don’t go back on it last minute)

      • A promise made is a debt unpaid

    • What about Renaissance people made them enjoy plays like Dr. Faustus and Everyman? 

      • Believed Satan was real and had power

    • Theme: don’t make promises you can't keep 

  • The second Shepherd's Play by the Wakefield Master 

    • Watch the videos in GC 

    • 3 questions 

      • What does Mak steal - a sheep; Where does he take it - his home (puts it in the crib); How do they hide it - pretend his wife had a baby 

      • Why did the other shepherds go back - forgot to give them a gift (ugly baby), and punish Mak by tossing him in a blanket 

      • The Shepherds retold by the angel to go to Bethlehem - give him a ball, a bird, and cherries 

The tragedy of Othello (acts I-V) 

  • What language is Othello written in - Early Modern English 

  • 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 - sent to fight the Turks in a war (all die in a shipwreck -storm) 

  • Why did Emilia give Iago Desdemona’s handkerchief - makes her husband happy, he has been asking for it (wanted her to steal it) 

  • What foreshadows Desdemona’s death - she sings the Willow song (about a lady whose love has cast her aside) 

  • What does Desdemona say with her dying breath - she lies about her murder (says she killed herself) 

  • How many dead people are there at the end of the play - 3 (on the death bed) 

  • Renaissance theater (globe theater)

  • Drama terminology (stage directions, soliloquy, aside…) 


The Screwtape Letters 

  • What is Screwtape’s relationship with Wormwood? - he’s his uncle

  • When does the patient convert to Christianity? - between the first and second letter 

  • Who is the protagonist: 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 (how is he disqualified for service): 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

    • 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

  • The woman and her family what is her 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: either hurts efforts to get the patient or is too hard to shake in her faith

  • How does screwtape feel about slum trumpet : its not doing anything (his efforts)

  • What does it mean to be merely christian : going to church but not actually practicing (getting lazy with your faith) doing the basic

Vocab questions from test from past quizzes

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

  • In a remarkable display of prescience, Jack Hills, while at the Los alamos national lab in 1988, predicted…

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

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

  • Shakespear begins othello in medias res, introducing characters…

  • The bread maker always gave 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 omnibus budget bill requires the agencies to do a cost benefit…

  • In heaven, faithful christians will receive laurels that will never decay or tarnish.

  • Our deepest encounter with God is sometimes almost ineffable, almost in expressible

  • 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 fulminate to her family about the protesters.

  • Friendship was viewed by many to be the sine qua non of a quality relationship.

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

Grammar

pronoun case

  • Both the boys, Tony and he, have experience on that computer. 

  • Their parents did everything to encourage Anna and them.

  • Surely you can do the job as well as she.

  • Fortunately for me, no one did better than I.

  • Success means more to some people than her.

  • Whom has the President recommended for secretary of state?

commas

  • Will Ferrell, 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, Ferrell had shown, that his humor could entertain his elementary school classmates. shown, -> shown

  • A comic who’s considered one 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.

  • 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.

Double negatives

  • In fact, Isaac has but five trees on all of his land.

  • Isaac was never more excited in his life than on the day the saplings arrived.

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

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

  • I could hardly keep myself from telling her about it.

Research Paper process

  • ic selection and narrowing (first step)

    • Plan and research 

  • Working outline 

    • Do preliminary reading

    • To organize our thoughts and guide our reading/source finding/note-taking  

    • Helps with finding sources

    • Skeleton 

  • Source cards

    • Gather bibliographic material for references

  • Note cards 

    • Sort cards into the order they will be used 

    • Start taking notes from the weakest source (for balance of sources in your paper)

    • Take notes on notecards so you can rearrange the info 

  • Drafting 

    • Write the actual research paper

  • Revise and Edit 

    • Correct content and organization

  • APA formatting 

  • Internal citations 

    • Author and date of publication, paragraph number 

  • Abstract 

    • Written after paper

  • References --

  • No new information in conclusion--just make a brief summary and restate the thesis

True or false-- 

abstract should be written after- true