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HRLP Chapter 21

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In literature scars and imperfections usually mirror moral, emotional, or psychological scars or imperfections. List three characters that have scars or imperfections.

List three pieces of literature where characters make a pack with the devil.

Option Three (minimum of 100 words):

Figure out Harry Potter’s scar. If you aren’t familiar with Harry Potter, select another character with a physical imperfection and analyze its implications for characterization.

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HRLP Chapter 20

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Option Two:

In literature the meaning of spring (three min.).

In literature, define the meaning of winter (three min.).

In The Wasteland, which month is called the cruelest?

Option Three (minimum of 100 words):

Find a poem that mentions a specific season. Then discuss how the poet uses the season in a meaningful, traditional, or unusual way. (Submit a copy of the poem with your analysis.)

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HRLP Chapter 19

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When characters go south, what does that generally mean?

What does the flatland usually symbolize?

Option Three (minimum of 100 words):

Discuss at least four different aspects of a specific literary work that Foster would classify under “geography.”

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HRLP Chapter 18

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1. Generally, what three things does baptism (submersion in water) represent in literature?

Option Three (minimum of 100 words):

Think of a “baptism scene” from a significant literary work. How was the character different after the experience? Discuss.

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HRLP Chapter 17

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What is it called when a writer writes about sex and means strickly sex?

List three literary meanings often represented by sex.

Option Three (minimum of 100 words):

Choose a novel or movie in which sex is suggested, but not described, and discuss how the relationship is suggested and how this implication affects the theme or develops characterization.

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HRLP Chapter 16

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Option Two:

Blame it on _____________________.

List three female sexual symbols in literature.

Which short story by Lawrence does Foster contend may have Oedipal elements?

Option Three (minimum of 100 words):

In today’s society sex sells. In literature sex is more veiled, but still present. Discuss a piece of modern film or writing that actually hurt itself by making sex the star instead of the story line or characterizations. Suggest ways in which a more subdued approach would have improved the work.

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HRLP Chapter 15

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1. If a person is suspended in air, even briefly, it has meaning. List three possible meanings.

2. Flight is _______________________.

Option Three (minimum of 100 words):

Select a literary work in which flight signifies escape or freedom. Explain in detail.

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HRLP Chapter 14

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1. List three features that might make a character a Christ figure.

2. Which Hemingway character is seen as a Christ figure?

Option Three (minimum of 100 words):

Apply the criteria on page 119 to a major character in a significant literary work. Try to choose a character that will have many matches. This is a particularly apt tool for analyzing film — for example, Star Wars, Cool Hand Luke, Excalibur, Malcolm X, Braveheart, Spartacus, Gladiator and Ben-Hur.

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HRLP Chapter 13

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1. What is the name of the British social thinker who felt that helping the poor was a bad idea?

2. What mixture does Foster call Ezra Pound’s politics?

3. Which stratum of society does Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher deal with?

4. In Mrs. Dalloway (1925) two political guests are invited to lunch. What is her purpose?

Option Three (minimum of 100 words):

Assume that Foster is right and “it is all political.” Use his criteria to show that one of the works you have read in high school is political.

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HRLP Chapter 12

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1. Symbols have one definite meaning in what type of writing?

2. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn the river is a road and the raft trip a quest. What is gained by Huck?

3. What other than objects and images can be symbolic?

Option Three (minimum of 100 words):

Use the process described on page 106 and investigate the symbolism of the fence in “Araby.” (Mangan’s sister stands behind it.)

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HRLP Chapter 11

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1. Explain the two categories that violence falls into in literature.

2. They’re __________________________ only on the inside of the novel–on the outside they’re planned, plotted, and executed by somebody, with malice aforethought.

Option Three (minimum of 100 words):

Present examples of the two kinds of violence found in literature. Show how the effects are different.

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HRLP Chapter 10

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1. Which Victorian novelist is credited with the line, “It was a dark and stormy night”?

2. If you have a character walk through the rain to get somewhere, what are you most likely

tying to symbolically portray?

3. What is the main function of the image of the rainbow?

Option Three (minimum of 100 words):

Discuss the importance of weather in a specific literary work, not in terms of plot.

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HRLP Chapter 9

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In literature, what does myth mean?

2. List three town or team names that come from Greek or Roman myths.

What four struggles of the human being are present in the story of Odysseus’s return

home?

Option Three (minimum of 100 words):

Write a free verse poem derived or inspired by characters or situations from Greek mythology. Be prepared to share your poem with the class. Note that there are extensive links to classical mythology on the Internet.

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HRLP Chapter 8

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1. Name two Slavic folktales that were made into Disney movies.

2. We want____________________ in our stories, but we want ___________________________, too.

Option Three (minimum of 100 words):

Think of a work of literature that reflects a fairy tale. Discuss the parallels. Does it create irony or deepen appreciation?

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HRLP Chapter 7

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In Toni Morrison’s Beloved, what are the four white men on horseback compared to Biblically?

2. What Biblical personage is Grendal a descendent of?

Option Three (minimum of 100 words):

Read “Araby” (available online). Discuss Biblical allusions that Foster does not mention. Look at the example of the “two great jars.” Be creative and imaginative in these connections.

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HRLP Chapter 6

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What is the title of the musical based on Romeo and Juliet?

2. Quote three lines by Shakespeare.

3. What two books did pioneer families usually have?

Option Three (minimum of 100 words):

Discuss a work that you are familiar with that alludes to or reflects Shakespeare. Show how the author uses this connection thematically. Read pages 44-46 carefully. In these pages, Foster shows how Fugard reflects Shakespeare through both plot and theme. In your discussion, focus on theme.

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HRLP Chapter 5

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When O’Brien has his character fall through the road, which piece of literature is he comparing his story to?

John Gardner reworked the classic Beowulf into what postmodern masterpiece?

In which Shakespearean play does a character let her friends stage her death and funeral

in order to teach her fiancé a lesson?

Option Three (minimum of 100 words):

Define intertextuality. Discuss three examples that have helped you in reading specific works.

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HRLP Chapter 5

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When O’Brien has his character fall through the road, which piece of literature is he comparing his story to?

John Gardner reworked the classic Beowulf into what postmodern masterpiece?

In which Shakespearean play does a character let her friends stage her death and funeral

in order to teach her fiancé a lesson?

Option Three (minimum of 100 words):

Define intertextuality. Discuss three examples that have helped you in reading specific works.

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HRLP Chapter 4

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1. What is the line number and meter structure of a sonnet?

2. What does Foster claim is true of short poems compared to long ones?

Option Three :

Select a sonnet and identify which form it is. Discuss how the content reflects the form.

(Copy the sonnet and mark to show your analysis).

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HRLP Chapter 3

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1. Name three things other than vampirism that vampires represent in literature.

2. In what way does the Henry James’s Daisy Miller employ a figurative vampire?

Option Three (Minimum of 100 words):

What are the essentials of the Vampire story? Apply this to a literary work you have read or viewed.

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HRLP Chapter 2

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In literature, whenever people eat or drink together – what is that called?

2. In Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones (1749) what is the eating scene really about?

3. In which story did the mother’s effort to get her family together for a meal only occur after

her death?

Option Three (Minimum of 100 words):

Choose a meal from a literary work and apply the ideas of Chapter 2 to this literary depiction.

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HRLP Chapter 1

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What is the real reason for a quest?

2. What five elements make up the quest structure?

Option Three (Minimum of 100 words):

List the five aspects of the QUEST and then apply them to something you have read (or viewed0 in the form used on pages 3-5.

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HRLP Introduction

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In Lorraine Hanberry’s A Raisin in the Sun (1959) in what way would Walter Lee be selling his soul by accepting the check offered for his home?

List four conventions of poetry.

What three items separate the professional reader from the rest of the crowd?

Option Three (Minimum of 100 words):

How do memory, symbol, and pattern affect the reading of literature? How does the recognition of patterns make it easier to read complicated literature? Discuss a time when your appreciation of a literary work was enhanced by understanding symbol or pattern.

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