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Lit Review Part I
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Writing Review
100
What does Poignant mean?
What is causing a strong feeling of sadness
100
Myrtle
What is the name of Tom's Mistress in The Great Gatsby?
100
Kate Chopin
Who wrote The Awakening?
100
40 minutes
How long do you have to write each essay?
100
Concrete portion are your tasks- the things that are not open to interpretation and Do not have multiple meanings
What does the concrete portion of the BAC mean?
200
A word that means "a feeling that someone/something is not worthy of respect"
What is the word Scorn?
200
Mark Twain
Who wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
200
Jim and Tom Sawyer
Who are the 2 characters Huck Finn becomes the closest to on his journey?
200
55%
What is the percentage of the writing portion of the exam?
300
A word that means very beautiful & good; causing feelings of wonder
What is Sublime?
300
Cult of Domesticity
What is the name of the value system that expressed the ideals of true womanhood during the late 1800s?
300
Buckley
What is the name of the State's Attorney prosecuting Bigger in Native Son?
300
The literal meaning first then the figurative meaning
When analyzing poetry, you have to find 2 meanings. What are they?
300
Question 3 (Open Ended Essay)
Which essay asks for the meaning of the work?
400
Having more than one possible meaning
What is ambiguous?
400
-It has magical properties because it was made by an Egyptian witch -As long as Othello's mother kept it, it guaranteed Othello's father's love -If it gets lost, the husband would start to hate her
What is significant about Othello's handkerchief?
400
-Wants to teach him a lesson about the real world/racism -Feels like he will never go far because Cory's black -Needs Cory to understand that he makes the rules for the family
What is Troy's reasoning for not allowing Cory to play football?
400
Couplet
What are the last two lines of a poem called?
400
In the (title of the work), (author) presents the idea that (claim about abstract idea) when (generalized reference to the text)
Tell me what the thematic statement template is comprised of.
500
Something not acceptable to talk about or do
What is taboo?
500
-Othello kills Desdemona -Iago kills Emilia -Othello kills himself
Explain the last scene of Othello by detailing the deaths that occur.
500
-Jazz Age (Roaring 1920s) -Women have let go of their confinements and are fighting for rights -Increase in wealth leads to searching for the American Dream -Prohibition led to bootlegging which led to more violence
Explain how the time and place of The Great Gatsby impact the plot.
500
-14 lines -Rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
What are the 2 ways to identify a Shakespearean sonnet?
500
-analyze the literary devices of the poem/passage
What is the concrete section of Q1 & Q2 telling you to do?