AP Literature Open-ended Prompts (1970
... 1982 Bulletin #1. “The struggle to achieve dominance over others frequently appears in fiction.” Choose a novel in which such a struggle for dominance occurs, and write an essay showing for what purposes the author uses the struggle. Do not merely retell the story. 1982 Bulletin #2. “In many plays ...
... 1982 Bulletin #1. “The struggle to achieve dominance over others frequently appears in fiction.” Choose a novel in which such a struggle for dominance occurs, and write an essay showing for what purposes the author uses the struggle. Do not merely retell the story. 1982 Bulletin #2. “In many plays ...
Ardagh12 (2/28/99)
... 1970. Choose a character from a novel or play or recognized literary merit and write an essay in which you (a) briefly describe the standards of the fictional society in which the character exists and (b) show how the character is affected by and responds to those standards. In your essay do not mer ...
... 1970. Choose a character from a novel or play or recognized literary merit and write an essay in which you (a) briefly describe the standards of the fictional society in which the character exists and (b) show how the character is affected by and responds to those standards. In your essay do not mer ...
AP Literature Open Response Questions 1970
... 2012. “And, after all, our surroundings influence our lives and characters as much as fate, destiny or any supernatural agency.” Pauline Hopkins, Contending Forces Choose a novel or play in which cultural, physical, or geographical surroundings shape psychological or moral traits in a character. The ...
... 2012. “And, after all, our surroundings influence our lives and characters as much as fate, destiny or any supernatural agency.” Pauline Hopkins, Contending Forces Choose a novel or play in which cultural, physical, or geographical surroundings shape psychological or moral traits in a character. The ...
List of AP prompts - Holy Spirit Catholic School
... relative of the hero or heroine, whose role is to be present when the hero or heroine needs a sympathetic listener to confide in. Frequently the result is, as Henry James remarked, that the confidant or confidante can be as much "the reader's friend as the protagonist's." However, the author sometim ...
... relative of the hero or heroine, whose role is to be present when the hero or heroine needs a sympathetic listener to confide in. Frequently the result is, as Henry James remarked, that the confidant or confidante can be as much "the reader's friend as the protagonist's." However, the author sometim ...
Gothic Novels: Background and Origin
... abandoned direct statement in favour of frequent double negatives, and complex descriptive imagery. Single paragraphs began to run for page after page, in which an initial noun would be succeeded by pronouns surrounded by clouds of adjectives and prepositional clauses, far from their original refer ...
... abandoned direct statement in favour of frequent double negatives, and complex descriptive imagery. Single paragraphs began to run for page after page, in which an initial noun would be succeeded by pronouns surrounded by clouds of adjectives and prepositional clauses, far from their original refer ...
Literary Terms and Definitions GOTHIC: The word Gothic originally
... The term Gothic originally was applied to a tribe of Germanic barbarians during the dark ages and their now-extinct language, but eventually historians used it to refer to the gloomy and impressive style of medieval architecture common in Europe, hence "Gothic Castle" or "Gothic Architecture." The t ...
... The term Gothic originally was applied to a tribe of Germanic barbarians during the dark ages and their now-extinct language, but eventually historians used it to refer to the gloomy and impressive style of medieval architecture common in Europe, hence "Gothic Castle" or "Gothic Architecture." The t ...
Mrs. Dalloway
... philosophical, and economic norms that arose in the modern period: a growing emphasis on individualism, for example; the rise of participatory democracy and capitalism. ...
... philosophical, and economic norms that arose in the modern period: a growing emphasis on individualism, for example; the rise of participatory democracy and capitalism. ...
British Literature II Mrs. Cumberland Extra Credit Novel List The
... Here is one of the masterpieces of modern fiction. This semi-autobiographical Irish novel focuses on Stephen Dedalus, a sensitive and creative young man who rebels against his family, his education, and his country by committing himself to the artistic life. ...
... Here is one of the masterpieces of modern fiction. This semi-autobiographical Irish novel focuses on Stephen Dedalus, a sensitive and creative young man who rebels against his family, his education, and his country by committing himself to the artistic life. ...
Thesis Statements for a Literary Research Paper
... analyze the roles black women were permitted in early twentieth-century American society to demonstrate that no role fully allowed black women an acceptable identity. Jonathan Safran Foer, Lynn Sharon Schwartz, and Rebecca Goldstein all address the traditional themes of immigration and assimilation ...
... analyze the roles black women were permitted in early twentieth-century American society to demonstrate that no role fully allowed black women an acceptable identity. Jonathan Safran Foer, Lynn Sharon Schwartz, and Rebecca Goldstein all address the traditional themes of immigration and assimilation ...
the File
... Genre – a French term for a type, species, or class of composition such as novel, poem, short story, and such sub-categories as sonnet, science fiction or mystery. Gothic – a type of novel characterized by mystery, horror, and the supernatural, often with haunted castles, secret passageways, grisly ...
... Genre – a French term for a type, species, or class of composition such as novel, poem, short story, and such sub-categories as sonnet, science fiction or mystery. Gothic – a type of novel characterized by mystery, horror, and the supernatural, often with haunted castles, secret passageways, grisly ...
War novel
A war novel (military fiction) is a novel, in which the primary action takes place on a battlefield, or in a civilian setting (or home front), where the characters are, either preoccupied with the preparations for, suffering the effects of, or recovering from war. Many war novels are historical novels.