Shakespeare
What is a soliloquy?
A speech/monologue given by a character in a play to make the audience understand their inner thoughts.
Typically given when alone.
Shakespeare is famous for his soliloquies, and they are vital in understanding the thoughts and feelings of the characters.
What are the names of the main characters in Of Mice and Men?
George and Lennie
Who wrote the Great Gatsby?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
What is the difference between an accent and a dialect?
A dialect is regional difference within how a language is spoken in a country and includes grammar and vocabulary.
An accent is the difference in pronunciation when speaking a foreign language.
What was the primary analytical focus of the course Inequality in the UK?
Rhetorical analysis (of speeches)
How many quatrains are there in a sonnet?
Three quatrains (and a couplet)
What was the dust bowl?
A large migration movement in the 1930s in which severe dust storms caused damage to the American and Canadian prairie.
How was the movie “Midnight in Paris” related to the course?
writers, 1920's atmosphere, explores characteristics of modernistic literature
Mention at least two writers from the course
Bernadine Evaristo, Zora Neale Hurston, Maya Angelou
South Africa: What was Nadine Gordimer’s goal with her literature
To show that apartheid was bad for white people as well as black people
What is a tragic flaw?
What differences are there between the political parties the Republicans and the Democrats
Democrats: community, liberal ideology, larger government role
What are the two primary narrative devices characteristic for literature from modernism?
Stream of consciousness and the iceberg theory
What characterizes the Harlem Renaissance?
Movement of the early 1900 in African American literature, jazz, and performing arts, etc.experienced a significant development in urban centres such as Harlem.
Explain the plot of country of lovers by Nadine Gordimer
How did the Elizabethans perceive the order of the universe?
Development of the heliocentric model: earth and planets revolve around the sun.
(Medieval mindset: earth is the center of the universe surrounded by spheres.)
This order is fixed – fear of chaos
Mention a couple of central American values
Freedom, self-reliance, neighborly help, importance of family, equality of opportunity, individualism, privacy
Describe the plot of Hills Like White Elephants
An American couple discusses the possibility of the woman having an abortion while waiting for a train in Spain.
What is code switching?
Modifying your language to fit into a certain standard.
Who held the three speeches we worked with in relation to Inequality in the UK
Rishi Sunak, Keir Starmer and The Green Party
Explain the use of dramatic irony in act 5 scene 3: What an unkind hour
Briefly explain the electoral system in America during the presidential elections
The winner takes it all system: The candidate with the most votes in each state take all electoral votes of said state. There are 528 electoral votes in total, and in order to become president you need at least 270 of these. The system essentially means that you do not need to win the popular vote in America to become president only the electoral.
Most states are traditionally either Democrat or Republican but some are so called swing states in which the result of the vote differs from election to election.
Explain the iceberg theory
Writing technique by Hemingway in which omission is central. There is always more to a story than what can be read.
What does it mean that English is used as lingua franca and how does that affect the language?
It is used as a means of communication between two people who do not speak the same language.
The consequence is that many non-native speakers use the language which eventually will change the language into what its speakers need to be.
What was the name of the political party that Nelson Mandela for a time was the leader of?
ANC - African National Congress