All the Pretty Horses
He is the author of All the Pretty Horses
Who is Cormac McCarthy?
She is the author of Pride and Prejudice.
Who is Jane Austen?
She is the author of Circe.
Who is Madeline Miller?
This is how you spell the last name of the author of Macbeth.
What is S-H-A-K-E-S-P-E-A-R-E?
These are the three essay types that will appear on the AP Lit. test.
What are prose, poetry, and literary argument (or "open essay")?
What are the names of the three young men who cross the river into Mexico together in All the Pretty Horses?
Who John Grady Cole, Lacey Rawlins, and Blevins.
These are the five Bennet sisters.
Who are Jane, Elizabeth, Lydia, Kitty, and Mary?
They are Circe's siblings.
Who are Aeetes and Pasiphae?
He is Macbeth's friend and companion, whom Macbeth later has killed.
Who is Banquo?
This is what you should do in the "hook" of your essay.
What is "make a philosophical statement about life, the human condition, psychology, or society"?
Who are the two characters in ATPH who espouse a worldview that is incompatible with John Grady's?
Who are Dona Alfonsa and Perez.
This literary element is deeply embedded in the text, including in the tone of the narrator, the dialogue, and the events of the plot.
What is irony?
What is a "first-person point of view"?
Who is Malcolm?
True or False: It is acceptable to praise the brilliance or genius of an author or literary work in your test essays.
What is "false"?
What is cauterizing a bullet wound with the red-hot barrel of a gun?
The persistent tension between the selflessness and self-centeredness of the main characters, even after their apparent "awakenings," is evidence of this element. (hint: it's worth a single point on the AP essays)
What is complexity?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! Please jot down your wager.
Macbeth, All the Pretty Horses, and Ocean all deal with one of the same elements of the human condition. It is one of the primary concerns of literature.
Only Pride and Prejudice does not address the issue in any way.
What is it?
He is Macbeth's primary antagonist and is revealed to be the one person who is "not of woman born."
Who is Macduff?
This is how you know you're looking at a floating quotation.
What is: "There are quotation marks around the entire quoted passage, but no introductory phrase on the part of the writer"?
This is one genre into which the novel would fit. It has to do with the particular type of character arc that John Grady follows.
What is a coming-of-age tale or bildungsroman?
This literary terms applies to the humorous way in which the author exposes the stupidity and ridiculousness of her characters and the society they live in.
What is satire?
Circe culminates in the opposite of this literary terms, which means "elevating someone to the level of a god."
What is "apotheosis"?
This is the major question that we argued in our "trial of Macbeth."
What is: "Who is responsible?"
What are: irony, paradox, tension, ambiguity, or contradiction?