DIRECTORATE FOR QUALITY AND STANDARDS IN EDUCATION Department for Curriculum Management and eLearning Educational Assessment Unit Annual Examinations for Secondary Schools 2012 Track 3 FORM 5 ENGLISH LITERATURE Index No: ___________ Time: 2 hours Class: _________ Name: _________________________________ Choose ONE question from Section A‚ ONE question from Section B‚ and ONE question from Section C. Answer ALL the questions in Section D. All the sections carry equal marks. You
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Joseph Favela Ms. Hinton AP English Literature Period 4 1 March 2013 Literary Devices Monologue: Refers to a speech by one person in a drama‚ a form of entertainment by a single speaker‚ or an extended part of the text of a play uttered by an actor. Example: Is this a dagger which I see before me‚ The handle toward my hand? Come‚ let me clutch thee! I have thee not‚ and yet I see thee still. Art thou not‚ fatal vision‚ sensible To feeling as to sight
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is to calm Lady Macbeth down after telling her about the departure of Macduff‚ her husband. This can be seen from things that he does in the scene. The scene begins with Ross speaking to Lady Macduff while she is stressing out about Macduff’s departure to England. Lady Macduff feels betrayed and furious because she thinks that Macduff abandoned her and their children. Ross tries to calm her down by telling her that maybe Macduff left for England for a good reason as seen from the quotation “You know
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------------------------------------------------- Significant Quotes Act IV Shakespearean English | Modern English | Double‚ double‚ toil and trouble; Fire burn‚ and cauldron bubble. Act IV‚ Scene i‚ Line 10 | “Double all the troubles and hardships of men. Let the misery of Scotland increase as the fire burns and the cauldron bubbles.” | Significance: The purpose of this well known quote is to communicate to the audience the witches’ intentions. The witches chant this line all together
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Macduff: The hero Scotland needed. Macduff is the thane of fife‚ the foil to Macbeth‚ and the greatest patriot of Scotland during the play. He first appears in act one scene six‚ the King Duncan and the nobleman come to Macbeths castle. Macduff’s fellow noblemen marvel about the greatness of Macbeth’s castle‚ though Macduff stays silent throughout the scene. This is generally how Macduff acts; only speaking when spoken to‚ and not making unnecessary conversation. In act two scene three Macduff
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Act 4‚ scene 2 Questions: 1. Lady Macduff says‚ “when our actions do not / Our fears make us traitors” (4.2.3-4). Explain what she means and who she is referring to. 2. How does Lady Macduff feel about Macduff leaving for England? Do you think she’s right? What does this indicate about the state that Scotland is in? 3. What does the murder of Lady Macduff and her son indicate to us about Macbeth? Act 4‚ scene 3 Questions: 1. Malcolm tests Macduff by telling him all the things that will
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“Macbeth suggests that great ambition‚ or inordinate lust for power‚ ultimately brings ruin.” William Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ is a play‚ which tells the story of Macbeth’s rise to power and subsequently his tragic downfall as a result of outside forces and his great ambition‚ or his excessive use of power. While the play centralizes around the ideas of ambition and power there are also other outside forces and elements‚ which greatly influenced Macbeth’s decisions and ultimately lead to his ruin
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As I Lay Dying is a 1930 novel by American author William Faulkner. Faulkner said that he wrote the novel from midnight to 4:00 AM over the course of six weeks and that he did not change a word of it.[1] Faulkner wrote it while working at a power plant‚ published it in 1930‚ and described it as a "tour de force." Faulkner’s fifth novel‚ it is consistently ranked among the best novels of 20th-century literature.[2][3][4][5] The title derives from Book XI of Homer’s The Odyssey‚ wherein Agamemnon speaks
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One of Faulkner’s central themes in the novel is the limitation of language. From the inability of the characters to communicate with one another‚ to Addie’s singular distrust of words‚ to the unlikely vocabulary the characters employ in their narration‚ Faulkner explores the inadequacy of language to express thought and emotion. Many characters communicate only through platitudes. As a result‚ they create misunderstanding rather than understanding between people. Through the varying perspectives
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<center><b>"Through the use of many characters monologues the narrative point of view presents an objective view of what really happened."</b></center> <br> <br>This statement is not adequate in connection with William Faulkner’s novel‚ As I Lay Dying. Though many points of view are expressed through the use of interior monologue‚ even when compiled‚ they cannot serve as an "objective" view of what really happened. <br> <br>There are many monologues by many different people‚ often with opposing ideas
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