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AP Lit Works (Midterm)

Brief list of stories, authors, and overviews/motifs we've done that will be tested on the midterm.

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52008489Louise Erdrich"Dear John Wayne".
52008490Sepulveda vs. De Las Casas. -Juan Gines de Sepulveda= against Indians -Bartolome de Las Casas= pro Indian
52008491Sherman Alexie"This Is What It Means To Say Pheonix, Arizona". *Symbols/motifs: -fathers and sons -fire, ashes, rebirth -last image= salmon swimming upstream
52008492Columbus"Landscape and Desire: The European Imagination and the New World". -his idea of paradise -eroticism of nature and the land
52008493???"Song of the Sky Loom". -family/creation -seasonal renewal -weaving conceit (warp/weft)
52008494William ShakespeareOthello.
52008495Lawrence Wright"Letter from Jerusalem: Forcing the End".
52008496John Winthrop"A Model of Christian Charity" (City on a Hill).
52008497Johnathan Edwards"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God".
52008498Edward Taylor"Huswifery". -extended metaphor of process of saving your own soul
52008499Anne Bradstreet"Verses Upon the Burning of Our House, July 18th, 1666". -2 Houses: 1) burns, in this world 2) doesn't burn, eternal salvation/heaven one
52008500Michael Wigglesworth"The Day of Doom" & "God's Controversy with New England".
52008501William Bradford"On Plymouth Plantations".
52008502Washington Irving"The Devil and Tom Walker". -faust story (sells his soul to the devil)
52008503Edgar Allen Poe"The Fall of the House of Usher". *House= 1) buildings 2) minds 3) family *doppelganger (incest [both spiritual and actual], house and its flaw, twin)
52008504Herman Melville"Bartelby the Scrivener". *Themes: -charity -work ethics -middle class boredom *Motifs: -grayness -food *Symbols: -dead letters -Alexandro Aranda's skeleton *Quote: "I prefer not to."
52008505Nathaniel HawthorneThe Scarlet Letter. *Motifs: -civilization vs. the wilderness -night vs. day *Symbols: -scarlet letter -the meteor -Pearl -rosebush next to the prison door
52008506Kate Chopin"The Story of an Hour". *Themes: repression of women in a male-dominated society *Symbols: -springtime -patches of blue sky
52008507Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain"Cannibalism in the Cars".
52008508Charles Chesnutt"The Sheriff's Children". *Themes: -racism -identity -moral and responsibility
52008509Charlotte Perkins Gilman"The Yellow Wallpaper".

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