MAJOR WORK DATA SHEET Page 4 ----------------------- Setting (place and time): Significance of the opening scene: The narration opens in present The action of Nelly’s story begins in the 1770s; tense with Mr. Lockwood describing his first personal encounter with Mr. Lockwood leaves Yorkshire in 1802. Heathcliff. At first‚ he is fond of him and called him a “capital fellow” All the action of Wuthering Heights takes place who “warmed” his heart. Lockwood also describes the atmosphere
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AP English: Literature and Composition Name: Larissa Maggard Major Works Data Sheet Major Works Data Sheet Page 2 Major Works Data Sheet Page 3 Characters Name Role in the story Significance Adjectives Marlow Kurtz general manager Kurtz’s Intended Marlow’s aunt Russian trader African mistress of Kurtz protagonist‚ narrator of interior story
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Gabriella McLaughlin Period 2 Pre-AICE English Language MAJOR WORKS DATA SHEET The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway HISTORICAL FACTS President Truman ordered the construction of a hydrogen bomb in 1950. Polaroid cameras were invented in 1947. Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected President in 1953. In 1948‚ Gandhi was assassinated. China became a communist state in 1949. Soviet Union possessed an atomic bomb in 1949. MAIN CHARACTERS Santiago - He is a protagonist and an old man who
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Major Works Data Sheet Advanced Placement Literature and Composition | |Biographical Information about the Author: | |Title: Ethan Frome | | | |Edith Wharton
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Review Sheet for Wuthering Heights 1. What techniques are used in the characterization of Heathcliff? Effects? Heathcliff is associated with evil and darkness from the beginning of the novel. "I felt his black eyes withdraw so suspiciously under their brows." (1) When Lockwood sees Heathcliff’s garden (perhaps a symbol for Heathcliff) "the earth was hard with a black frost the air made me shiver through every limb." (6) When we see Heathcliff when he is first brought into the Earnshaw household
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AP English: Literature and Composition Name: ALEXIS BARNES Major Works Data Sheet Major Works Data Sheet Page 2 Major Works Data Sheet Page 3 Characters| Name|Role in the story|Significance|Adjectives| MarlowKurtzAccountantCannibalsGeneral ManagerBrickmaker|European sailor‚ narrates the story‚ goes to Africa to pilot a riverboat for a Belgian ivory trading company‚ duty to seek out Kurtz‚ another riverboat captain‚ and bring him back to the trading companies central.Most successful
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Major Works Data Sheet In this column‚ choose five quotations from the text‚ one focusing on each of the following literary elements: In this column‚ analyze the significance of your quotations. Allow the following questions to guide your responses: Why is this important? What does this reveal? Why does the author say it this way? What is the tone/mood of this passage? Theme "Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition." -Victor Frankenstein This is part of the theme of the book
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Major Works Data Sheet: “The Things They Carried” Title: “The Things They Carried” | Author: “Tim O’Brien” | Genre: Fiction | Date Published: 1990 | Plot summary: First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross is in love with a junior in college named Martha while he is in the middle of a war in Vietnam. While he travels around‚ he and Martha write letters to each other‚ in which he writes with love and she just writes back as a friend. Throughout the story‚ O’Brien lists all of the supplies they all carry
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Title of Work: Frankenstein Author: Mary Shelley Date of Publication: January 1‚ 1818 Genre: Gothic Biographical information about the author: Born as Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin to William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft on August 30‚ 1789‚ Mary was the only child of her father and mother. Hardly more than a week after having Mary‚ Wollstonecraft died‚ leaving William to raise Mary and her half-sister‚ Fanny‚ whom William chose to adopt. When Mary was four‚ her father remarried but resentment
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Major Works Data Sheet by Yerim Jee‚ Shaleen Singha‚ Judith Suzuki (Band 8) Title: Lord of the Flies Author: William Golding Date of Publication: 1954 Genre: Adventure; allegory; social criticism Historical information about the period of publications: When this novel was published in 1954‚ it was about 9 years after World War II had ended. Therefore‚ during this period of time‚ Americans were getting used to the times after the war‚ which had increases in industries and population. When
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