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English 10: World Literature Final Exam Review

English 10: World Literature Final Exam Review

English 10: World Literature Final Exam 2014 -2015 Final Exam Review

English 10: World Literature Final Exam 2014 -2015 Final Exam Review

Part I: Vocabulary Part II: Literary Terms Part II: Passage Analysis Part III: ESSAY

Part I: Vocabulary Part II: Literary Terms Part II: Passage Analysis Part III: ESSAY ____ /60 _____/40 ____ /75 ____ /25 TOTAL SCORE: ____/200

1. “That was a long time ago, but it’s wrong what they say about

1. “That was a long time ago, but it’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years. ” Source: The Kite Runner Author: Khaled Hosseini

2. “If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination

2. “If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams. ” Source: Life of Pi Author: Yann Martel

Tita • 3. “____ knew through her own flesh how fire transforms the elements,

Tita • 3. “____ knew through her own flesh how fire transforms the elements, how a lump of corn flour is changed into a tortilla, how a soul that hasn't been warmed by the fire of love is lifeless, like a useless ball of corn flour. ” Source: Like Water for Chocolate Author: Laura Esquivel

4. I could be well moved if I were as you. If I could

4. I could be well moved if I were as you. If I could pray to move, prayers would move me. But I am constant as the Northern Star, Of whose true fixed and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament. The skies are painted with unnumbered sparks; They are all fire, and every one doth shine; But there’s but one in all doth hold his place.

5. “They carried the soldier’s greatest fear, which was the fear of blushing. Men

5. “They carried the soldier’s greatest fear, which was the fear of blushing. Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to. It was what had brought them to the war in the first place, nothing positive, no dreams of glory or honor, just to avoid the blush of dishonor. They died so as not to die of embarrassment. ” Source: The Things They Carried Author: Tim O’Brien

 6. “We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and

6. “We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. ” Source: Dead Poets Society Speaker: John Keating

7. “People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the famous riddle

7. “People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the famous riddle with his brilliance, he rose to power, a man beyond all power. Who could behold his greatness without envy? Now what a black sea of terror has overwhelmed him. Now as we keep our watch and wait the final day, count no man happy till he dies, free of pain at last. ” Source: Oedipus Rex Author: Sophocles

8. “I can well imagine an atheist’s last words: “White, white! L-L-Love! My God!”—and

8. “I can well imagine an atheist’s last words: “White, white! L-L-Love! My God!”—and the deathbed leap of faith. Whereas the agnostic, if he stays true to his reasonable self, if he stays beholden to dry, yeastless factuality, might try to explain the warm light bathing him by saying, “Possibly a f-f-failing oxygenation of the b-bbrain, ” and, to the very end, lack imagination and miss the better story. ” Source: Life of Pi Author: Yann Martel

9. He was my friend, faithful and just to me. Brutus But ________says he

9. He was my friend, faithful and just to me. Brutus But ________says he was ambitious, Brutus And ________ is an honourable man. Caesar …. . When that the poor have cried, ________ hath wept. Brutus …. . Yet _________ says he was ambitious, Brutus And __________ is an honourable man. …. I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Brutus Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition? Yet _________says he was ambitious, And sure he is an honourable man. Source: The Tragedy of Julius Caesar Author: William Shakespeare

10. “In every message she spoke of birds, of flight, of the world away.

10. “In every message she spoke of birds, of flight, of the world away. Even back then, she flew against what was presented to her. I wanted to cling to her wings and soar, no matter how intimidated I was. ” Source: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Author: Lisa See

 • 11. “That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took

• 11. “That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife’s slain body in his arms. ” Source: The Kite Runner Author: Khaled Hosseini

12. “He was a slim, dead, almost dainty young man of about twenty. He

12. “He was a slim, dead, almost dainty young man of about twenty. He lay with one leg bent beneath him, his jaw in his throat, his face neither expressive nor inexpressive. One eye was shut. The other was a star-shaped hole. ” Source: The Things They Carried Author: Tim O’Brien

13. “You must take care to light the matches one at a time. If

13. “You must take care to light the matches one at a time. If a powerful emotion should ignite them all at once, they would produce a splendor so dazzling that it would illuminate far beyond what we can normally see; and then a brilliant tunnel would appear before our eyes, revealing the path we forgot the moment we were born, and summoning us to regain the divine origins we had lost. The soul ever longs to return to the place from which it came, leaving the body lifeless. ” Source: Like Water for Chocolate Author: Laura Esquivel

14. “I know zoos are no longer in people’s good graces. Religion faces the

14. “I know zoos are no longer in people’s good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both. ” Source: Life of Pi Author: Yann Martel

15. “I actually aspired to cowardice, because the alternative, the real reason I was

15. “I actually aspired to cowardice, because the alternative, the real reason I was running, was that Assef was right: Nothing was free in this world. Maybe Hassan was the price I had to pay, the lamb I had to slay, to win Baba. ” Source: The Kite Runner Author: Khaled Hosseini

16. “By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself.

16. “By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others. You start sometimes with an incident that truly happened, like the night in the shit field, and you carry it forward by inventing incidents that did not in fact occur but that nonetheless help to clarify and explain. ” Source: The Things They Carried Author: Tim O’Brien

17. “With that meal it seemed they had Tita discovered a new system of

17. “With that meal it seemed they had Tita discovered a new system of communication, Pedro in which _______ was the transmitter, ____ the receiver, and poor Gertrudis the medium, the conducting body through which the singular sexual message was Source: Like Water for Chocolate passed. ” Author: Laura Esquivel

18. “Fear? What should a man fear? It’s all chance, chance rules our lives.

18. “Fear? What should a man fear? It’s all chance, chance rules our lives. Not a man on earth can see a day ahead, groping through the dark. Better to live at random, best we can. And as for this marriage with your mother—have no fear. Many a man before you, in his dreams, has shared his Oedipus mother’s bed. Take such things for shadows, nothing at all— Live, _______, as if there’s no tomorrow!” Source: Oedipus Rex Author: Sophocles

19. “We at the height are ready to decline. There is a tide in

19. “We at the height are ready to decline. There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures. ” Source: The Tragedy of Julius Caesar Author: William Shakespeare

 • 20. “Sometimes I can even see Timmy skating with Linda under the

• 20. “Sometimes I can even see Timmy skating with Linda under the yellow floodlights. I’m young and happy. I’ll never die. I’m skimming across the surface of my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, doing loops and spins, and when I take a high leap into the dark and come down thirty years later, I realize it is as Tim trying to save Timmy’s life with a story. ” Source: The Things They Carried Author: Tim O’Brien