AP English Literature and Composition Character Name(s) _______________________________________________________________ Score _____ / 30 I. Provide an example of each of these literary terms for character from any of the short stories in this section. Characterization: Antihero: Dynamic: Static: Foil: Flat: Stock: Round: Saving Sourdi by May-Lee Chai (Page 121) 1. How does your response to Nea develop over the course of the story? Is she a dynamic or static character?
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that the Rainhorse is supernatural in his writing. He describes the horse as possibly ‘Clairvoyant’ which is certainly supernatural. Also when thinking to himself about an ordinary horse the man says ‘this horse was nothing like that’ which suggests that the Rainhorse is out of the ordinary‚ therefore out of this world and supernatural. When the horse is around the rain seems to pour much harder and heavier‚ it is almost as if the horse has the power to control the element of rain. It is also describes
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In "Two Kinds‚" Amy Tan writes a coming of age story about a young girl in San Francisco and the cultural differences she has with her Chinese mother. The result is conflict between the two from the girl ’s inability to live up to her mother ’s expectations. The mother left China after losing everything and sees America the place where you can have it all. She attempts to make her daughter into a prodigy against her daughter ’s will. After years of clashing the daughter disappoints her mother
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Mothers have always played an important role in their daughter’s life. They help mold us into the people we will become; they are there for us when we need support and raise us in the best way they know how. In Amy Tan’s "Two Kinds"‚ we see Jing-mei struggle with her mother’s expectations and the disappointment that follows when she doesn’t meet them. She struggles to see her mother’s quiet support and love and instead feels as though she isn’t being seen for who she really is. Like many other mother-daughter
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The Horses Analysis This is a poem by Ted Hughes where he talks about a male observing a horse. The poem starts off with‚ ‘I climbed through woods in the hour-before-dawn dark’. This creates a setting of an early before sunrise‚ when the atmosphere is chilly‚ dark and gloomy. ‘Evil air‚ a frost-making stillness’. The ‘air’ is being personified suggesting that the atmosphere is cruel and unsafe. ‘Not a leaf‚ not a bird. A world cast in frost.’ The word ‘frost’ means the state of coldness sufficient
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The Rocking Horse winner is a short story that shows how the lust for material things can lead to destructive effects. The Rocking Horse Winner is base in the late 1920 right before the great depression. So I can imagine with the hard economically times it would be hard for parents to provide for their children. D.H. Lawrence gave a good prospective on how low a people would go to remain good status among other people. Hester Paul’s mother represents greed and selfishness with her lust for material
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Sea Horse Scientific Name: Hippocampus Kingdom: Animalia Common Name: Sea Horse Seahorses are truly unique‚ and not just because of their unusual equine shape. The seahorse
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Escaping from the reality‚ Margaret Laurence utilizes the short story “Horses of the Night” to establish the struggle Chris had between his imagination and the reality of his own world. The battles he had among himself demonstrates that sometimes life creates an illusion to allow people to explore through the wrong ideas. Vanessa’s perspective of Chris going through his life in Manawaka‚ and living in Shallow Creek had a big differentiality. He remodeled his real life situations into his dreams‚
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Mongol Invasions” as well as the pertinent humanitarian concerns best illustrated by renowned historian Ibn al-Athir‚ criticisms regarding the religious legitimacy and negative humanitarian impacts of the Mongol Invasions are valid assessments. The first controversy surrounding the impact of the Mongol invasions is whether or not their motives were legitimate. Much of historian criticism suggests that the religious and ideological beliefs of the Mongols that compelled them to action were both extremist
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understanding information about the cultural and historical background‚ it helps with interpreting what other literary devices mean as well. Without any background information to explain some reasons for certain events‚ the story would be confusing and the reader might not understand it to its full ability. Also‚ there would not be much personalization with the characters. In All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy the importance of cultural or historical aspects is utilized by conveying that it is rare
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