QUIZ on next 15 Literary Terms

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Go over major themes, characters, literary devices, symbols, and create a summary. (Continue tomorrow, if necessary.)

HOMEWORK: 15 Lines and 3 Essay Prompts

This assignment is in two parts.

1) Choose 15 direct quotes (5 from each of the 3 acts) that are meaningful sentences or phrases that support any of the following comedic themes within the play:

• The nature of marriage
• The constraints of morality
• The quest for truth and beauty
• Hypocrisy

Type each quote and add a sentence of why you chose that quote: what appealed to you about it? Did you find it accurate? How? Funny? Why? Insightful? In what way?

2) Free Response Prompt

The three prompts below have appeared in past AP exams, and Earnest could be used to answer each of these. Choose ONE of the prompts that appeals to you the most, and write an essay.

2a) Create a clear, defensible claim and list three supports for the claim. SUBMIT this to Mrs. Mercer FIRST before writing the essay, before WEDNESDAY at MIDNIGHT.

2b) Once I have approved your claim (or given suggestions for revision), WRITE THE FULL ESSAY. This essay will be completed on Google docs, double-spaced, and be a minimum of 350 words.

1. Many works of literature contain a character who intentionally deceives others. The character’s dishonesty many be intended either to help or to hurt. Such a character, for example, may choose to mislead others for personal safety or to spare someone’s feelings, or to even carry out a crime. Choose a novel or a play in which a character deceives others. Then, analyze the motives for that character’s deception and discuss how the deception contributes to the meaning of the work as a whole.
2. Some novels and plays seem to advocate changes in social or political attitudes, or in traditions. Choose such a novel or play and note briefly the particular attitudes or traditions that the author apparently wishes to modify. Analyze the techniques the author uses to influence the reader’s or the audience’s views.
3. Many plays and novels use contrasting places (for example, two countries, two cities or towns, two houses, or the land and the sea) to represent opposed forces or ideas that are central to the meaning of the work. Choose a novel or a play that contrasts two such places. Write an essay on how the places differ, what each place represents, and how their contrast contributes to the meaning of the work.

This essay and the 15 lines will be due FRIDAY before midnight.

QUIZ on Tuesday over the next 15 Literary Terms.

WATCH The Importance of Being Earnest. (First part)

HOMEWORK: Turn in your Claim and Supports to me for approval before midnight!