English 117E: Mock Final
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[edit] Mock Final -- English 117E
[edit] Part One: ID
You will be asked to identify 10 out of 15 words. Identify the source and meaning of each item. (20 points)
| Poisoned wine | Egeus | Caius | Yorick |
| Dover | Quince | Problem play | Mopsa |
| Jacobean | Fabian | Motley | Oracle of Delphi |
| Soliloquy | Osrick | Great Chain of Being | Reynaldo |
| Illyria | Arras | Iambic Pentameter | Seyton |
| The Globe | Elbow | Natura naturans | Abhorson |
| Sir Topas | Sicilia | Fleance | Sheep shearing |
| Caesarean birth | Lennox | Antonio | Fortinbras |
[edit] Part Two: ID and short answer
Write a paragraph on 3 out of 5 passages. (40 points]
- Why should I play the Roman fool, and die / On mine own sword? Whiles I see lives, the gashes / Do better upon them.
- Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass. He hates him / That would upon the rack of this tough world / Stretch him out longer.
- Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania!
- He has a son, who shall be flay'd alive; then 'nointed over with honey, set on the head of a wasp's nest then stand till he be three quarters and a dram dead; then recover'd again with aqua-vitae or some other hot infusion; then, raw as he is, and in the hottest day prognostication proclaims, than he be set against a brick wall, the sun looking with a southward eye upon him, where he is to behold him with flies bloom to death.
- I may command where I adore; / But silence, like a Lucrece' knife, / With bloodless stroke my heart doth gore; / M.O.A.I. doth sway my life.
- Sweet sister, let me live.
- Come, you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, / And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full / of direst cruelty!
- He has no children.
- And am I then revenged, / To take him in the purging of his soul, / When he is fit and seasoned for his passage? / No.
- Double, double, toil and trouble; / Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
- To both sisters have I sworn my love; / Each jealous of the other, as the stung / Are of the adder. Which of them shall I take? / Both? One? Or neither? Neither can be enjoy'd, / If both remain alive.
- Mad as the sea and wind, when both contend / Which is the mightier. In his lawless fit / Behind the arras hearing something stir, / Whips out his rapier, cries, "A rat, a rat!" / And, in this brainish apprehension, kills / The unseen good old man.
- Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand?
- What's this, what's this? Is this her fault or mine?/ The tempter or the tempted, who sins most, ha? / Not she, nor doth she tempt; but it is I / That, lying by the violet in the sun, / Do as the carrion does, not as the flow'r, / Corrupt with virtuous season.
- Come, sir, come, sir, come, sir; foh, sir! Why, you bald-pated, lying rascal, you must be hooded, must you? Show your knave's visage, with a pox to you! Show your sheep-biting face, and be hang'd an hour! Will 't not oft? (Pulls off the friars hood)
- Unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.
- Do I stand there? I never had a brother; / Nor can there be that deity in my nature / Of here and every where. I had a sister, / Whom the blind waves and surges have devour'd.
- Noble prince, / As there comes light from heaven and words from breath, / As there is sense in truth and truth in virtue, / I am affianced this man's wife as strongly / As words could make up vows, and, my good lord, / But Tuesday night last gone in's garden-house / He knew me as a wife.
- With drinking healths to my niece. I'll drink to her as long as there is a passage in my throat and drink in Illyria. He's a coward and a coistrel that will not drink to my niece till his brains turn o' th' toe like a parish-top.
- O sir, to wilful men / The injuries that they themselves procure / Must be their schoolmasters. Shut up your doors. / He is attended with a desperate train, / And at they may incense him to, being apt / To have his ear abused, wisdom bids fear.
- Nay, you must name his name, and half his face must be seen through the lion's neck, and he himself must speak through, saying thus, or to the same defect -- "Ladies," -- or "Fair ladies,-- I would wish you," -- or "I would request you," -- or "I would entreat you,-- not to fear, not to tremble: my life for yours. If you think I come hither as a lion, it were pity of my life. No, I am no such thing; I am a man as other men are."
- Fit to govern! / No, not to live! O nation miserable, / With an untitled tyrant, bloody-sceptred, / Whe shall thou see thy wholesome days again. / Since that the truest issue of thy throne / By his own interdiction stands accused / And does blaspheme his breed?
- And will you rent our ancient love asunder, / To join with men in scorning your poor friend? / It is not friendly, 'tis not maidenly.
[edit] Part Three: Essay question
Write on one out of three questions. Remember to give yourself time to plot out and structure a logical argument Be sure to write on three plays. Be specific -- refer to the text. (40 point)
- How does theatricality function in the plays? You might want to consider the plays-within-the-plays. What kinds of references are there to the art of writing plays? Haw does Shakespeare highlight the conventions of his art? To what purpose does he do this?
- Discuss how time operates in at least three of the plays.
- There are lots of shipwrecks, pirates, and sea-battles in the plays. Why is this "theme" so prevalent? Does it function simply to move the plot along, or is there a more important meaning? Do we see a difference between its use in the comedies and the tragedies?
--MarthineSatris 15:24, 26 August 2007 (PDT)
