Unit 3
Hamlet's inability to Act. Hamlet's main goal is to get revenge on is Uncle Claudius by killing him, he misses an opportunity to kill him because he wanted to make sure his uncle went to hell.
What was Hamlet's tragic flaw?
An epic hero is very brave, strong, and popular person. This hero has no flaws, he is perfect in every sense.
What are characteristics of an epic hero?
Chaucer was poking fun at hoy people to show that their title doesn't show their true character. He mocks Monks and Nuns to show that their title doesn't necessarily mean they are really holy.
What is Chaucer poking fun at in The Prologue from The Canterbury Tales?
Meter is a stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse, or within the lines of a poem. Stressed syllables tend to be longer, and unstressed shorter. In simple language, meter is a poetic device that serves as a linguistic sound pattern for the verses, as it gives poetry a rhythmical and melodious sound.
What is Meter?
Has meaning capable of, susceptible of, fit for, tending to, given to, associated in meaning with the word able. The word personable, which Chaucer uses to describe the Monk, means “having a (pleasing) personality.” Used at the end of words.
What is the suffix -able?
Hamlet becomes obsessed with getting revenge on his uncle. After hearing the real story from the ghost of his father, hamlet feels the need to avenge his father's death by killing his Uncle who killed his father.
What happens after Hamlet's Father's Ghost tells him the truth about his death?
Beowulf is a famous hero who defeats Grendel and his mother. He comes to Denmark to save people that aren't even his own, he is the definition of an epic hero.
Who is Beowulf?
Everyone has different experiences that can lead them to make art, write, or give speeches criticizing their society. Writers like Jamaica Kincaid criticize her society because of bad things that happened to her home country.
How do people criticize society?
Iambic pentameter is a type of metric line used in traditional English poetry and verse drama. Shakespeare used Iambic pentameter in most of his works.
What Meter did Shakespeare use?
words used in substitution with exact same meaning as original word. This is often used to create a stronger sounding story, and connotation often plays a part when choosing which _____ of the word to use.
What is a synonym?
Ophelia's madness, caused by Hamlet and his confusing actions. Throughout Hamlet Ophelia and Hamlet have a complicated love story, this confusion of whether Hamlet really loves Ophelia or not leads her to go insane.
What or who causes Ophelia's death?
In the land of the Danes (what is today the nation of Denmark) and the land of the Geats (what is today the nation of Sweden).
Where does "Beowulf" take place?
Pope is making fun of the character's obsession with this little prank, rather than other more pressing issues at the time.
In Rape of the Lock how is Pope criticizing society?
An author's use of vivid and descriptive language to add depth to their work. It appeals to human senses to deepen the reader's understanding of the work.
What is Imagery?
When two or more adjectives are joined together to modify the same noun. These terms should be hyphenated to avoid confusion. Example: "She adopted a two-year-old cat."
What is a compound adjective?
The play Hamlet puts on causes Claudius to realize someone know what he did to his brother. Hamlet writes a play about a king killed by his brother by pouring poison in his ear, which is exactly what Claudius did to Hamlet's father.
What is the significance of the inclusion of the play within the play?
Beowulf is an epic hero, he helps everyone. When he hears that there is a terrible monster lurking about he wanted to help.
Why does Beowulf help the people being terrorized by Grendel?
She came from the Caribbean which was colonized by England, so she has a negative look towards it. The central problem relates to her sense of having lost an identity at a young age, and wrongly replaced with another that was drilled into her mind during the time of British colonization.
Why was Kincaid so critical of England?
Romeo and Juliet's love story, the knight in shining armor, the witch and her potion are all kinds of symbols or common ideas that can be found in a text.
What is an archetype?
A part of speech that connects words, phrases, or clauses that are called the conjuncts of the conjoining construction. There is am acronym for all of them.
What is FANBOYS?
Hamlet means that it all comes down to this one final showdown. Everything in the story has lead to this moment. The battle.
What does Hamlet mean by "the readiness is all"?
Beowulf death was caused by a poisonous wound from the dragon. When the Geats return to the surface, Wiglaf orders the building of a funeral pyre so that they can burn Beowulf's body. His death shows that his legacy has come to an end an someone else will take his place.
How does Beowulf's death effect the story?
Shakespeare's sister shows that women are just as intelligent as men, but society hasn't always allowed them to show it. Since society didn't accept women in power to to be intelligent. Shakespeare's sister had to hide her intelligence.
Why is the message in Shakespeare's Sister important?
Tells the audience what the personality of the character is immediately. Example: “The patient boy and quiet girl were both well mannered and did not disobey their mother.”
What is direct characterization?
Many of the words that we use also have feelings and emotions that are associated with them, and this is called connotation. We often must understand the ______ of a word, or its literal meaning, in order to understand the connotation.
What is denotation?