MOD A
What is the significance of the title of Mrs Dalloway?
Conveys how Clarissa has been stripped of her identity and autonomy, perpetually shackled to her domestic duties as a wife and a mother.
What poem is the quote 'Like a patient etherized upon a table' from?
The Love Song Of Prufrock
What is Margaret Atwood's anecdote about?
Watching her children's play about breakfast
Which character is a great example of an anomaly and why?
Portia: Intelligence and wit
What is the technical term for predominant or main image in a visual text?
Salient image
What type of structure is Stephen Daldry's 'The Hours' ?
Triptych
What is it and what does the epigraph in 'Long Song of Prufrock' symbolise?
From Dante's Inferno
Speaks of the eight circle of hell (of which there are 9) > Fraud.
In this circle are punished people who used fraud against those with whom they had no special bond of trust
What is an example of hypophora in 'Spotty Handed Villainess'
‘Why don’t you make the men stronger? I feel that this is a matter that should more properly be taken up with God.’
‘How do I know this? I read my mail. Also, I listen to the questions people ask me…on how the characters ought to behave.
What era was 'Merchant of Venice' written in?
The Jacobean era
What is it called when a line in a poem does not end with a punctuation mark?
What can this usually convey?
Enjambment
Continuity, flow, consistency
What is the era for Laura, Clarissa, and Virginia Woolf in Stephen Daldry's The Hours, and name one contextual influence for each.
Virginia Woolf: 1920 (Mental health work)
Laura: 1950 (Post War)
Clarissa: 2000s (AIDS)
List his poems pre and post war
Pre-war:
- Preludes
- Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
- Rhapsody
Post-war:
- The Hollow Men
- Journey of a Magi
What are 4 elements required for a discursive text?
- Colloquial language
- Anecdote
- Variety of opinions
- Logos, pathos, ethos
What is an example of a paradox?
The more you eat, the hungrier you become... etc
What is the structure of a 6 mark comparative answer?
What is the requirement for full marks?
Short introduction (thesis)
First text
Second text
First text
Second text
Conclusion
Requirement: At least 3 pieces of evidence and analysis
List TWO dissonances between The Hours and Mrs Dalloway, and TWO resonances
Dissonances:
Acceptance of queer relations
Resonances:
Patriarchal influence on housewife
Treatment of those suffering (outliers)
Which poem/s demonstrate T.S Eliot's conversion of faith and how? (refer to at least 1 piece of evidence)
Hollow Men hints at it with the fragmented reference to 'for thine is the kingdom'
The Journey of the Magi - 'Birth or death?'
What is the title, composer, and form of each of our prescribed texts for Module C
Spotty Handed Villainess (discursive/persuasive)- Margaret Atwood
Stamp Collecting (imaginative) - Boey Kim Cheng
What time is it now where you are? (imaginative) -
Colum McCann
What is the significance of setting in 'Merchant of Venice', in relation to the major themes?
Belmont:
Love and Romance (Portia and Bassanio)
Friendship and Loyalty (Antonio and Bassanio)
Venice:
Commerce and wealth (underscores the theme of money and its power)
Justice and Mercy (the trial scene)
What is are TWO examples of macro techniques and TWO examples of micro-techniques.
Macro: Form, motif, rhyming scheme
Micro: Simile, personification, metaphor
Why doesn't Virigina Woolf break Mrs Dalloway into chapters?
She didn't divide the novel into chapters because this would mean breaking the continuity of time, but the mental process has no division, our thoughts flow constantly without interruptions. The external time is given to the reader by the chiming of the Big Ben close to Clarissa's house.
Nihilism is the rejection of faith
Preludes: nihilistic imagery highlights his view that humanity is doomed to exist in this way forever.
The Hollow Men: depicts individuals as figures filled with straw; lacking substance and devoid of emotions or spiritual faith
How would it change throughout?
Hands, food
Name and give examples for 3 different types of discrimination in the play.
2 must have direct quotes
Discrimination against gender:
Portia has no choice in who she will take as husband
"Choose"
Discrimination against race:
Portia discriminates against the suitor
Discrimination against religion:
Antisemitism (Shylock)
"cut-throat dog"
What is the difference between verse, blank verse, and prose.
If you were to write about love, which would you use and justify why.
Verse: a line of writing in which words are arranged in a rhythmic pattern
Blank Verse: poetry written in unrhymed but metered lines, almost always iambic pentameter.
Prose: written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure.