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Here is an old Final. Make sure you can answer these questions. Note - your final will come from your tests on Romeo and Juliet and your test on To Kill A Mockingbird, so look those over and know them.

 TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

1)  Give three examples of the following themes and discuss how your example backs up the theme:

--The Meaning of Duty









--Prejudice and its effects on people









--The Meaning of Courage









2)     List and explain three lessons that Scout learns











3)    .Discuss the following symbols and what they represent:

Mockingbirds


The knot-hole in the oak tree



The mad dog



4)    Make a list of all the people Scout fights and why?






5)    Outline the plot


















6)    Discuss the mystery of the following characters:


Mr. Raymond



Mrs. Dubose



Calpurnia

Boo Radley

7)    How is Atticus wrong at the end of the book?  Why is this important for both his character and the reader’s perception of the law?










8)    List at least 3 pairs of dramatic foils and why they are dramatic foils.






9)    Be able to discuss what is important about the following characters (what is their role in the book):    
Miss Maudie,

Jack Finch

Tom Robinson

Dill

Heck Tate

Miss Maudie

Nathan Radley



10) Discuss TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD as a 3-part structure.
11) List 4-5 different types of prejudice found in the book



PART II


1)    List the five elements of tragedy








2)    List the four elements of a sonnet.







3)    Define soliloquy







4)    List one soliloquy from the play.  Name the speaker and the place, and what they’re talking about.







5)    Name a pair of dramatic foils and explain how they are dramatic foils.




PART II:  Elements of Plot.  Name the part of the plot for each of the following scenes   (exposition, inciting event, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution)


6)    The fight scene at the beginning of the play is an example of ______________




7)     Romeo’s decision to go to the ball is an example of _______________





PART III:  FOR THE FOLOWING QUESTIONS IDENTIFY THE SPEAKER

8)    “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life
Whose misadventure piteous overthrows
Doth wit their death bury their patents’ strife”   __________________

9)    “Pronounce this sentence then
Women may fall when there’s no strength in men”  ______________


      11) “A plague on both houses”                             ___________________

12) “If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this
My lips two  blushing pilgrims ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss”  _______________

13) “What’s in a name?  That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet”        _______________

14) “Boy this shall not excuse the injuries
That thou has done to me, therefore turn and draw”  _____________

15) “I do but keep the peace, put up thy sword,
Or mange it to part these men with me”        ______________



PART IV:  Multiple Choice


16) “But he that hath the steerage of my course
Direct my sail” is an example of


a.     foreshadow
b.     implied and extended metaphor
c.     inciting event
d.     Romeo’s decision to go to the ball
e.     All of the above


17) “Why then, O brawling love, O Loving hate,
O anything, of nothing first created!
O heavy lightness, serious vanity,
Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms,
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health”

a)     foreshadow
b)    oxymoron
c)     inciting event
d)    soliloquy
e)     all of the above


18) “These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder
Which, as they kiss, consume”

a)     rising action
b)    foreshadow
c)     metaphor
d)    simile
e)     b and c
f)     a, b, and d




19) “Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
who is already sick and pale with grief,” is an example of

a.     metaphor
b.     foreshadow
c.     personification
d.     a and c
e.     all of the above


20) “But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the East, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise fair sun and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief,
That thou her maid art far more fair than she.”

a)     personification
b)    exposition
c)     metaphor
d)    a and c
e)     b and c
f)     all of the above
                  g)  none of the above

 

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