Download Senior Midterm Study Sheet

Senior Midterm Study Sheet
*What is a Hazara? Mention at least three traits that describe them. Which work, for this semester, includes Hazaras?
*How does the significance of a cleft lip change through The Kite Runner? In your answer, mention the symbol’s first
significance, how it changes into a second meaning, and finally how it changes into a third meaning.
*What do Afghani primers teach children about Hazaras? (List at least four details.)
*How does Amir change throughout The Kite Runner? Discuss one example from his childhood stage, one from his adolescent
stage, and one from his adult stage to support your answer.
*How should we describe Anju from Sister of My Heart? How does she change? In your response, discuss two examples from
the novel that support your answer. Also mention how the terms imalgo, liminality, and spalgis apply to her.
*How should we describe Sudha from Sister of My Heart? How does she change? In your response, discuss two examples from
the novel that support your answer. Also mention how the terms imalgo, liminality, and spalgis apply to her.
*Summarize the Oedipus Rex story and, in your summary, ensure you include Jocasta and the Sphinx. How does this relate to
Antigone?
*Which conflict, with Oedipus’s sons, occurs before the play, Antigone, begins? In your answer, discuss Argos’s and Zeus’s
roles. How does that also involve Antigone? How does that involve the play’s major conflict?
*What are The Furies and nemesis? How do they relate to Antigone? What is anagnorisis and perepeteia? How do they relate to
Antigone?
*Who is Creon? Does he undergo anagnorisis or perepeteia? What about Antigone? Support your answers through discussing a
specific incident from the play, for each character. What does their outcome communicate about the play’s theme?
*What are the functions of a Chorus in Greek drama? The Chorus in Antigone has what flaw? Support your answers to both
questions through discussing an example from the play.
*Describe 2-3 differences between male and female slaves in America during pre-civil war time. For each difference, support
your claim using an example from Incidents or broadsides we should have examined in class.
*What is the difference between severe and clandestine oppression, as holders used it on slaves? What is one example of severe
oppression and a different example of clandestine oppression from Incidents? For each example, explain why it qualifies as
severe and clandestine oppression.
*What is reappropriation? Discuss two examples from Incidents and throughout pre-Civil War, American slavery, that prove this
definition.
*What event qualifies as the climax in Hamlet? Explain why you consider it a climax. Do the same for denouement.
*Discuss one psychological term from Hamlet. Use examples from the play to support your definition of the term.