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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| 52008489 | Louise Erdrich | "Dear John Wayne". | |
| 52008490 | Sepulveda vs. De Las Casas | . -Juan Gines de Sepulveda= against Indians -Bartolome de Las Casas= pro Indian | |
| 52008491 | Sherman Alexie | "This Is What It Means To Say Pheonix, Arizona". *Symbols/motifs: -fathers and sons -fire, ashes, rebirth -last image= salmon swimming upstream | |
| 52008492 | Columbus | "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) | |
| 52008494 | William Shakespeare | Othello. | |
| 52008495 | Lawrence Wright | "Letter from Jerusalem: Forcing the End". | |
| 52008496 | John Winthrop | "A Model of Christian Charity" (City on a Hill). | |
| 52008497 | Johnathan Edwards | "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God". | |
| 52008498 | Edward Taylor | "Huswifery". -extended metaphor of process of saving your own soul | |
| 52008499 | Anne 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 | |
| 52008500 | Michael Wigglesworth | "The Day of Doom" & "God's Controversy with New England". | |
| 52008501 | William Bradford | "On Plymouth Plantations". | |
| 52008502 | Washington Irving | "The Devil and Tom Walker". -faust story (sells his soul to the devil) | |
| 52008503 | Edgar 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) | |
| 52008504 | Herman 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." | |
| 52008505 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Scarlet Letter. *Motifs: -civilization vs. the wilderness -night vs. day *Symbols: -scarlet letter -the meteor -Pearl -rosebush next to the prison door | |
| 52008506 | Kate Chopin | "The Story of an Hour". *Themes: repression of women in a male-dominated society *Symbols: -springtime -patches of blue sky | |
| 52008507 | Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain | "Cannibalism in the Cars". | |
| 52008508 | Charles Chesnutt | "The Sheriff's Children". *Themes: -racism -identity -moral and responsibility | |
| 52008509 | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | "The Yellow Wallpaper". |