LL1 Semester 1 Exam
Jason's Stammer
Antagonist in Hangman
Self, Family, Peers
Antagonist in Solarium
Young Poet
Antagonist of Letter One
The nuns/society
Antagonist of St. Lucy's
Edgar Allen Poe
Author of "The Tell-Tale Heart"
David Mitchell
Author of Hangman and Solarium
Emily Dickinson
Author of I felt a funeral in my brain
Ranier Maria Rilke
Author of Letter One
Karen Russell
Author of St. Lucy's
Identity Beauty is everywhere Beauty cannot be created Beauty is truth Beauty cannot be defined
Central Idea: Hangman and Solarium
Madness
Central Idea: I felt a funeral in my brain
Criticism (is useless) Meaning of Beauty: Beauty lies within Meaning of Beauty: Beauty is everywhere
Central Idea: Letter One
Individual identity vs. group identification
Central Idea: St. Lucy's
Obsession Madness Guilt
Central Idea: Tell Tale Heart
Stage 5 Summary
Claudette returns home to visit her family. They are terrified of her at first, not recognizing the human girl before them. Eventually, she tells them that she's home, although she realizes that is not true. She is too human for the wolves, and too wolf for the humans.
Man Vs. Self, Man Vs. Society, Man vs. Man
Conflict Types in St. Lucy's and Hangman
Jason has to publically speak at school and he doesn't want everyone to know about his stammer, but he does not have a choice.
Conflict for Jason in Hangman
Man vs. Self
Conflict type in I felt a funeral in my brain
Man vs. Man, Man vs. Self
Conflict types in Letter One and the Tell Tale Heart
Man vs. Self, Man vs. Society
Conflict types in Solarium
It slows the pacing and creates suspense.
Effect repetition has on the story (TTH)
Fiction
F or NF: All texts except for the letter are this
nonficiton
F or NF: Letter One
The five stages of Lycanthropic Culture Shock and epigraphs
How Russell organizes the story
Extended metaphor of the funeral, linear plot
How does Dickinson set up the events in the poem?
The setting of the solarium is a reflection of Madame Crommelynck. They both reflect wealth, status, and older in age.
How does the setting develop this person's character? What do we learn about him/her?
Five stanzas/four lines each=20 lines total.
How many stanzas are in this poem? How many lines are there in each stanza?
Stage 4, when Mirabella attacks Claudette to save her
In which stage does the climax, or high point of the action take place?
Eliot Bolivar
Jason's pseudonym
Beauty cannot be created or defined. Beauty is truth.
Madame Crommelynck believes three things in regards to beauty. What are those three things?
" a woman with coat hangers instead of bones" (25).
Metaphor in Hangman
the old man/eye
antagonist in the tell tale heart
Suppositions (N)
assumptions or hypotheses
Tangible (Adj)
capable of being precisely identified
Endures (V)
continue to exist; lasts
Complied (V)
did what had been asked or ordered
Personification
figure of speech that gives an inanimate object, abstract idea, or animal human qualities or characteristics.
Stage 1 Summary
girls arrive at St. Lucy's. They are given free rein and cause destruction and chaos. Girls are given new names and feel threatened. The begin to panic and Mirabella tries to escape.
Day time action (TTH)
is short and quickly paced highlighting that it's not significant.
Transitory (Adj)
lasting only for a short time
Hearken (V)
listen; give heed to what is said
Night Time Action (TTH)
lower pacing and takes significantly more time to explain
Shucking (V)
peeling off
The narrator
protagonist in the tell tale heart
Ferocity (N)
savage fierceness
Sagacity (N)
the ability to make good judgments or to plan ahead
Criticism (N)
the activity of making careful judgments about the good and bad qualities of books, movies, etc.
Construction (N)
the arrangement and connection of words or groups of words in a sentence
Point of View (N)
the narrator or who is telling the story; 3 kinds of this
Outfox (V)
to defeat or trick (someone) by being more intelligent or clever
Paraphrase (V)
to rephrase or restate the text in one's own words without changing the meaning of the text
Rudimentary (Adj)
very imperfectly developed
The struggle to adapt
what Claudette represents
Identity (N)
who someone is; the characteristics, beliefs, etc., that make a particular person or group unique
Simile
A comparison using "like" or "as"
Metaphor
A comparison without using like or as
He feels a sense of accomplishment for finally killing the old man and being rid of the evil eye.
After the events take place, how does the narrator feel? (TTH)
To rid the world of the eye by murdering the old man because it is evil and terrifies him.
Narrator's Goal in the Tell Tale Heart
Hangman (N)
One who kills criminals by hanging them; a public executioner
description of hangman (26).
Personification in Hangman
The Speaker
Protagonist and Antagonist of I felt a funeral in my brain
Jason
Protagonist in Hangman and Solarium
Rilke
Protagonist in Letter One
Claudette
Protagonist of St. Lucy's
Mentor and Mentee
Relationship between Rilke and the Young Poet and Jason and Madame Crommelynck
Professor Horacek
Secondary Character in Letter One
Mom, Pete Redmarley, Gilbert Swinyard, Pluto Noak, Mrs. de Roo, Lucy Sneads, Angela Bullock, Robin South, Miss Throckmorton, Gary Drake, Neal Brose, Joey Deacon, Dad, Aunt Alice, receptionist, people in the lobby
Secondary Characters in Hangman
police, the old man
Secondary Characters in the tell tale heart
Madame Crommelynck, mom and dad, peers, old man/butler, vicar
Secondary characters in Solarium
Jeanette and Mirabella
Secondary characters of St. Lucy's
"spreading round the school like a poison-gas attack" (27). "they're as different as diarrhea and constipation" (25).
Similes in Hangman
Stage 2 Summary
The girls feel uncomfortable and out of place. They are forced to complete walking drills, become bilingual, and read. The girls wish to go home, but are scared to disappoint their parents. There is also an incident with feeding the ducks.
Stage 3 Summary
The girls interact with other human girls. They play games, although they still demonstrate wolf like behavior. They also ride bicycles for the first time.
Stage 4 Summary
The girls prepare for debutante ball. We see Claudette and Jeanette begin to react selfishly and in their own interests. Claudette panics and reverts to wolf behavior when she cannot perform the Sausalito. Jeanette refuses to help, but Mirabella tackles her to keep her from getting hurt. Claudette then blames Mirabella for ruining the ball, although she really loved her for helping her to pass. Mirabella is expelled from St. Lucy's.
Hearing
The narrator's greastedt sense in both The Tell Tale Heart and I Felt A Funeral In My Brain
Excerpt
Type of Writing: Hangman and Solarium
Poem
Type of Writing: I felt a funeral in my brain
Letter
Type of Writing: Letter One
Short Story
Type of Writing: St Lucy's and the Tell Tale Heart
Not fully; though we see Claudette has come further than Mirabella, we also see that she has not fully adapted in Stage 4. In stage 5, when Claudette goes back to the cave, we understand that she has adapted enough that she is unable to go back: "first human lie...'I'm home'" (246). However, due to her behavior in stage 4 we also realize that some of her wolf behavior may never go away.
Were the girls successfully rehabilitated into human society?
Human Society
What Jeanette represents
Wolf Society
What Mirabella represents
They agree that Beauty can be found everywhere
What do Rilke and Madame Crommelynck from Black Swan Green agree on in regards to where to find beauty?
The young poet wants criticism and help from Rilke. Rilke believes that the young poet should look inside himself to find the answers.
What does the young poet want from Rilke? Where does Rilke believe the young poet should look for answers?
The narrator descends into madness.
What happens through the events of the extended metaphor?
The narrator freezes because he wants to be able to accomplish his plan of killing the old man so he can get rid of his obsession, the eye.
What happens when the old man wakes up?
It is useless and something he does not give out
What is Rilke's opinion about criticism?
A violent, Judgy, and Scary place
What is the school environment like according to Jason?
Humorous tone created by his use of figurative language and his use of made up words. Angry/Bitter tone is created when he describes himself as a "duh- brain" and a "flid" (26).
What is the tone that Jason creates in this excerpt. How does he create this?
old man's heartbeat after his death, but we can infer that he is hearing his own heartbeat out of guilt.
What the narrator (TTH) is hearing that makes him confess to the police
Rilke uses metaphors to help develop the central ideas of the meaning of beauty and beauty is everywhere
What type of figurative language does Rilke use twice? What does this structural choice help to develop?
Five years ago at school while playing a game of hangman. It was during the summer
When Jason develops his stammer
To the varage and the vicar. He believes this because the vicar should live at the vicarage.
Where does Jason deliver his poems and who does he believe is receiving them? Why does he believe this?
In the middle of the action. This creates a mysterious/suspenseful effect because we do not know who is speaking, what has happened, or who he is talking to.
Where in the story's action does Poe start the narrator's tale? What is the purpose/effect of starting it here?
Madame Crommelynck is the one receiving/delivering the poems. She does not receive payment, but gets to read the poems first.
Who actually is receiving and delivering the poems to the vicar? Does he/she receive payment for this?
He believes that they are lying by acting as if they cannot hear the heartbeat.
Why does the narrator say the police have "hypocritical smiles"?
Allusion
a brief reference to a person, place, thing, or idea that has literary, historical, cultural, or political significance.
Compassion (N)
a feeling of wanting to help someone who is sick, hungry, in trouble, etc.
identification (N)
a feeling that you share and understand the problems or experiences of another person or group
