Literary Classics

The Great Gatsby Notes

The Great Gatsby Notes

The Great Gatsby Notes.Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald.Style, Setting, and Themes.imagistic and poetic prose.motifs and symbols used throughout novel serve to develop theme (geography = social stratification, weather = human conditions, etc.)

To Kill a Mockingbird s2

To Kill a Mockingbird.The Trial of Boo Radley.Writing Situation: At the end of Chapter 28, Bob Ewell is found dead with a knife through his chest. As we find out in Chapter 30, Boo Radley stabbed him while saving Jem and Scout. Sheriff Heck Tate said

The Taming of the Shrew - Study Questions

The Taming of the Shrew - Study Questions.Answer the following questions in complete sentences; be specific and use quotes from the play to support your work where possible.1. What trick is played upon Christopher Sly? Why? 2. Why is The Taming of the Shrew considered a play within a play? ACT I

To Kill a Mockingbird Final Exam Review Sheet

To Kill a Mockingbird Final Exam Review Sheet.I. Part One Multiple Choice (20 questions; 40 points total). Know the following.Focus on the events and characters in Chapters 22-31. Review the chapter questions and answers

Lord of the Flies Vocabulary, Chapters 1-12

Lord of the Flies Vocabulary, Chapters 1-12.First Unit Chapters 1-6 Second Unit Chapters 7-12.Sound of the Shell.1. motif: single or repeated design; a recurring subject, theme, idea, etc. S.Here the beach was interrupted abruptly by the square motif of the landscape

Walker Percy and Southern Literature

Walker Percy and Southern Literature.Veronica Makowsky.I DON'T LIKE TO BE DESCRIBED as a Southern writer, declared Walker Percy in a 1989 interview. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern writer, you might be thought of as someone who writes

The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde

The Importance of being Earnest Oscar Wilde.Character List.John (Jack/Ernest) Worthing, J.P. - The play s protagonist and the play's most sympathetic character. Jack Worthing is a seemingly responsible and respectable young man who leads a double life

The Project Gutenberg Etext of the Intrusion of Jimmy, by P

The Project Gutenberg Etext of the Intrusion of Jimmy, by P

The Project Gutenberg Etext of The Intrusion of Jimmy, by P.G. Wodehouse.THE INTRUSION OF JIMMY.I. JIMMY MAKES A BET.II. PYRAMUS AND THISBE.III. MR. MCEACHERN.V. A THIEF IN THE NIGHT.VI. AN EXHIBITION PERFORMANCE.VII. GETTING ACQUAINTED.VIII. AT DREEVER.IX. FRIENDS, NEW AND OLD

Importance of Being Earnest - Suggested Essay Topics

Importance of Being Earnest - Suggested Essay Topics.1. What is the overall effect of the play s references to death? How is death, as a theme, dealt with in the play?.2. Is Cecily a more realistic character than Gwendolen? Why or why not?

Chapter Study Questions for Dr

Chapter Study Questions for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.Story of the Door (chpt. 1); Search for Mr. Hyde (chpt. 2).1. Fully describe Mr. Utterson and Mr. Enfield.2. While Mr. Utterson and Mr. Enfield were walking, what did they see that reminded Mr. Enfield of an odd story?

Study Questions for the Scarlet Letter Through Chapter 15

Study Questions for The Scarlet Letter through Chapter 15.1. Look closely at the opening chapter. What images appear? How is Hawthorne already introducing symbolic patterns? Why does he mention Anne Hutchinson? What connection does she have to Hester Prynne?

English 1 Summer Reading Requirements

To Kill a Mockingbird Pre-Reading Anticipation Guide.Complete the following questions prior to reading Harper Lee s novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The questions touch on issues found in the novel. Answer them in preparation for reading To Kill a Mockingbird Complete sentences are expected

GENERALS DIE in BED Charles Yale Harrison

GENERALS DIE IN BED Charles Yale Harrison.JR s TEACHER NOTES.Explain and speculate what the title of the novel is inferring about the Generals.The title is a pun or is having a go at the generals.Generals die in bed while the soldiers die on the front lines

Questions for Chapter 11: Calamitous 14Th Century

Questions for Chapter 11: Calamitous 14Th Century

Questions for Chapter 11: Calamitous 14th Century.1) What was the Black Death? What were the preexisting conditions in Europe that allows it to be so devastating?.2) What are the short and long term effects on European religion and society? (i.e. What

Ordering Shakespeare Around: Syntax and Word Order

Ordering Shakespeare Around: Syntax and Word Order.The order of Subject, then Verb, then Object dominates Standard English today. However, the farther back you go in the history of English, the more accepting English speakers/readers were of moving the

The Birds by Daphne Du Maurier the Short Story

The Birds by Daphne Du Maurier The Short Story.The story is taken from a collection now called The Birds and other Stories , but the anthology was originally called The Apple Tree and was published by Gollancz in 1952. Your comments on Nat Hocken should

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