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Area of Study of 'Discovery': Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' (1611) Analysis Revision
Area of Study of 'Discovery': Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' (1611) Analysis Revision
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What technique characteristic to plays does Shakespeare dramatically employ in the Harpy scene?
A catapault
A quaint device
A trapdoor beneath or above the stage
A mast and rigging
2
Explain consequences of Prospero's discovery: "the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance"
He will subsequently treat others with gentleness
He will promote Caliban to 'king of the isle'
He will punish his brother, Antonio, for unfaithfulness.
He will reclaim his position of authority in Milan
3
What discovery does, 'And my trust, Like a good parent, did beget of him A falsehood' reveal?
Human mortality
Self discovery of gullibility
Discovery of sexuality
Human depravity
4
Sebastian: "A living drollery. Now I will believe That there are unicorns;
Not hyperbole
Not oxymoron
Not allusion
Not plosives
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Caliban: "These be fine things... That’s a brave god, and bears celestial liquor"
Reasonable conclusion drawn from anecdote
False discovery due to lack of perspective
Confident insight due to a wealth of experience
Accurate discovery caused by careful examination
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Prospero: "I pray thee, mark me" "Dost thou attend me?"
Not imperatives
Not didactic tone
Not high modality
Not metonymy
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Prospero: "I pray thee, mark me" "Dost thou attend me?"
Not discovery which promotes paternal reverence
Not discovery which yields an increase in empathy
Not discovery which reveals new insights about one's origins
Not discovery as guided closely by a catalytic figure
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Identify the technique: "if you now beheld them, your affections Would become tender."
High modality
Rhetorical question
Hypothetical scenario
Personification
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Identify the technique in Prospero's quote: "the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance"
Alliteration
Aphorism
Hyperbole
Parison
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Gonzalo: "methinks he hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is perfect gallows"
Refusal to discover based on empirical evidence
Resistance to discovery due to an over-reliance on faith
Passion for investigating the original catalysts of events
Fascination with discovering processes of the Great Chain
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'O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is!'
Epiphora
Exclamation
Apostrophe
Anastrophe
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"I’ll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth'
Calloused transformation following realisation of own guilt
Sympathetic reformation following a discovery of empathy
Conservative decision following a discovery of self-shame
Legalistic reformation following a discovery of depravity
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Gonzalo: "methinks he hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is perfect gallows"
Metaphor
Lexical field
Anadiplosis
Polyptoton
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Caliban: "Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears"
Onomatopoeia
High modality
Hyperbaton
Low modality
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What discovery and technique in 'What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?'
Discovery of enlightened human condition; metaphor
Discovery aided through memory; rhetorical question
Discovery aided by memory; parataxis
Discovery of depraved human condition; metaphor
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Prospero: "Our revels now are ended. These our actors...Are melted into air, into thin air"
Ineffectual discovery due to subjective error
Unexpected discovery due to racial prejudices
Arresting discovery based on hypothetical speculation
Unreliable discovery due to magical interference
17
What is the meaning of Boatswain's phrase: "What cares these roarers for the name of king?"
He demonstrates the rise of Elizabethan individualism
He enjoys the position he holds in the Great Chain of Being
He is indifferent to the royal status of Alonso
He deeply respects Gonzalo's authority as adviser
18
What does NOT significantly affect Miranda's discovery that she was abandoned on the island?
The potentially unreliable narration of Prospero
Her memory in "the dark backward and abysm of time."
The didactic catalyst of her father
The testimony of Antonio regarding the past
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What technique is in the following: "What cares these roarers for the name of king?"
Bestial imagery
Rhetorical question
Anaphora
Soliloquy
20
What technique & effect are evident in Miranda's line: "the dark backward and abysm of time"
Hyperbole, the way sympathy is required for realisation
Gloomy imagery, unreliable self understanding
Gloomy imagery, the way individuals are catalysts for truth
Hyperbole, the power of memory to uncover meaning
21
What sort of discovery is generated through the stage device in the Harpy sequence?
Intense, moral discovery
Powerful, cultural discovery
Arresting and supernatural self-discovery
Intense physical discovery
22
Caliban: "Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears"
Discovery of political theory via formal education
Rational discovery based on the empirical method
Profound discovery through introspection
Unreliable discovery of the supernatural via spectacle
23
What character and discovery are evident in, 'Mine would, sir, were I human."?
Ariel; empathetic discovery
Ariel; catalytic individual
Caliban; human depravity
Caliban; empathetic discovery
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Caliban: "These be fine things... That’s a brave god, and bears celestial liquor"
Not divine lexical field
Not cumulative listing
Not anaphora
Not consonance
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"More to know Did never meddle with my thoughts"
Personification: 'curiosity' characterised as interloper
High modality: Miranda disclosing her struggle to discover
Low modality: Miranda confessing her prior indifference
Personification: 'inquisition' displayed as a helpful agent
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Prospero: "Our revels now are ended. These our actors...Are melted into air, into thin air"
Not epiphora
Not inclusive pronouns
Not superlative
Not metaphor
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Miranda: "More to know Did never meddle with my thoughts"
Overinflation of passion to do with knowledge
Lack of curiosity regarding personal history
Lack of guilt regarding self enlightenment
Overinflation of restraint regarding inquiry
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What provokes the Boatswain's discovery that he can attain to a higher position in the Chain?
The liminal situation of the tempest itself
The barren plains of the isle
The chaotic milieu of the marooning
His lack of hubris
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'Abhorred slave, Which any print of goodness wilt not take'
Parataxis
Vituperation
Rhetorical question
Superlative
30
What technique is evident in the quote 'O brave new world, That has such people in’t!'?
Expletive
Exclamation
Apostrophe
Simile
31
'And my trust, Like a good parent, did beget of him A falsehood in its contrary'
Anaphora
Simile
Low modality
Juxtaposition
32
What quote reflects Caliban's resistance to acquiring new knowledge?
'Disgusting slave, Which any show of virtue wilt not take'
'Abhorred slave, Which any print of goodness wilt not take'
'Miscreant, Which any print of honour wilt not endure'
'Abhorred villain, Which any sign of goodness wilt not take'
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Ariel, explaining how feelings would become empathetic: "Mine would, sir, were I human."
Prospero's realisation that is capable of goodwill
Prospero learns that his daughter has inner passions
Prospero's discovery of the importance of clemency (mercy)
Prospero senses that Alonso, his brother, will repent
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"I’ll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth'
Jargon
Hyperbole
Anaphora
Epizeuxis
