Things Fall Apart
What is the name of the protagonist?
Okonkwo
Who wrote, 'Who's for the Game?'
Jessie Pope
What are the two rival families in the play AND which do Romeo and Juliet respectively belong to?
Montague (Romeo)
Who wrote The Tell-Tale Heart? (full name)
Edgar Allen Poe
What is the room students go to on the weekend when they do not do anything?
White room
What instrument seems most important to the people in the novel?
Drum
'They fell, like ______ wiping out the noon;
And wandered slowly thence
For thinking of a ______ multitude
snowflakes AND gallant
What is the opening line to the prologue?
Two households, both alike in dignity
What are four 'scientific advancements' we looked at during the Victorian era?
•Pasteurization (1812)
•Internal combustion engine (1823)
•Photography (1826-27)
•Anesthesia (1845)
•Gatling gun (1861)
•Light bulbs (1879)
•Telephone/ Microphone (1876)
•X-ray (1896)
Why is Mr Marshall interested by conbini sandwiches?
Sandwich buddy
What is an egwugwu?
The personifications of ancestral spirits and concepts
What is the translation of: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
Give four ways Romeo's dialogue is presented as melodramatic when we first meet him.
Long; exclamatory; questions; oxymorons; repetition of 'O'; vague; rhyming
What are three reasons - we studied - for why an author may want to use an epistolary narrative?
Personal, mysterious, authentic, and suspense
What did I have for dinner last night?
Fried fish with tonjiru soup
What is the significance of the narrative perspective in the novel?
1. Able to sample a variety of perspectives (and better immerse ourselves in the culture)
2. We are an outsider; this fits with the idea of Achebe informing foreigners
3. Information is presented unbiasedly; Achebe lets us decide what is right/ wrong
4. The god-like narrator fits with the important spiritual qualities of the Igbo
What kind of gas was used in WW1 and written about by Owen?
Chlorine
What are the two meanings behind the Nurse's line:
‘No less! Nay, bigger; women grow by men’
(1) that women are made better people by being with a man
(2) that women become pregnant
Give four characteristics - that we have studied - of the Enlightenment and Romantic periods.
Complete this anagram (two words):
IPIPKE NIIKASH
KIPPEI SHINKAI
Give four aspects of Achebe's style.
Use of sound; untranslated terms; third person narrator; traditions; proverbs; 'nature' similes; simple vocabulary and grammar
What biblical story does Owen 'twist' in the last poem we studied of his AND how does he 'twist' it?
Abraham and Isaac; Abraham follows through with killing his son
How is dramatic irony used in Act 3, Scene 5?
Last meeting between Romeo and Juliet. We know that they will not have the pleasant future they hope for (shown in the prologue)
List all the fears (red boxes) we have studied in this unit.
Crumbling social identity; Giving into pleasure; Science; Barbarism; Insanity; Knowledge
What teams are left in the World Cup?
France, Morroco, Argentina, Croatia