Reading Literary Texts: Unit Review

Title, Paraphrase, Connotation, Attitude (tone), Shifts, Title again, Theme.

Nothing remains of the works; the boast now warns that even the mighty end in ruin.

Read steadily, circling unknown words, then make a reading-log entry: 3-line summary, one quotation, one question.

Stated: free, free, free! Implied: the open window and spring trees aquiver with the new spring life.

The doctors think she died of joy at seeing Brently; the reader knows she died of the loss of her freedom.

Brently was kind and she had loved him—sometimes; the evidence points to marriage itself as the problem.

Third person omniscient.

It reveals ten years of sacrifice were for a fake, showing that pride and the wish to appear wealthy can cost more than they're worth.

Third-person narration that slips into a character's own thoughts and words.

Any two: repetition that builds, hyperbole, deadpan first person, escalation, anticlimax.

Christie's reasoning is the logical one; Charlie's is prejudiced and contradictory.

Example: Both are 1890s women whose identities are tied to marriage, but Christie claims her dignity publicly and links it to respect for her mother's people, while Louise's freedom exists only privately.

Octave (8 lines, ABBAABBA) and sestet (6 lines), with a volta usually at line 9.

He likely had his wife killed for smiling freely: possessive, proud, dangerous.

Season word: frog (spring). Cutting word: ya.

The pause makes us wait for the Duke's judgment, showing his false politeness before the insult.

A sentence that holds its main clause until the end: seven Where clauses, then let my country awake.

The I represents a whole people across history, from the Euphrates to the Mississippi.

Heavy, stressed, plump-sounding words (swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells) make the lines feel full.

He led the Department of Indian Affairs (1913 to 1932), so his representation was tied to real power and policy.

The "vanishing Indian" myth; Indigenous populations in Canada are in fact growing.

As nations with rights to the land: By right, by birth we Indians own these lands.

A man performing with wealth and effort (gold hat, bounce high) to win a woman.

A first-person participant-observer telling the story retrospectively.

East Egg: old money. West Egg: new money.

From a distant dream Gatsby reaches for to again a green light on a dock once he's with Daisy: the dream shrinks when reached.

The ugly cost of wealth: waste and the poor people left behind.

Gatsby's real self: a poor farm boy from North Dakota who reinvented himself at 17.

We strive forward but are pushed back; no one can escape or recapture the past.

Tom's racism is criticized, but Nick's narration uses stereotypes and no Black character speaks.

Any two: keeps the themes; handles the narrator; makes the symbols work; adapts the style suitably.

Wherefore = why; protest = vow.

Claudius poisoned him; take revenge, but leave Gertrude to heaven, and remember me.

Sun / son: Hamlet resents being called Claudius's son.

To catch the conscience of the king: to test whether the Ghost told the truth.

Hamlet spares Claudius thinking he's praying successfully; the audience knows Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Mostly feigned (I am but mad north-north-west), but it covers real turmoil that breaks through (Ophelia, Polonius).

He avenges his father instantly, without thought, and is manipulated by Claudius into dishonour.

Poison in Old Hamlet's ear (1.5) → the Mousetrap (3.2) → poisoned cup and blade (5.2).

He has come to accept providence: being prepared matters more than controlling events.

Needs proof: May be a devil (2.2). Thinks too much: the pale cast of thought (3.1). (Also: feelings about his mother; revenge is morally wrong.)

Men tell her what to think (I do not know, my lord, what I should think); she speaks freely only in madness.

It gives a clear focus but oversimplifies Hamlet, ignoring the moments he acts and the play's political side.