Who likes notecards?

With some sympathy, I hereby remind you to write up notecards for two primary novels and one secondary novel (or novella or play) for Thursday, April 29, including the following information:
Title
Author

Major characters
Minor characters
Point of view
Major conflict(s)
Major plotline
Subplots (just a couple)
Specifics of a couple of tricky relationships--romantic or otherwise
Tone
Denouement

Also be up to snuff on Arnold, Hardy, and Browning, and of course, expect a quiz.

On Monday, Mrs. Delaplane will sub for those of you not in A.P. Calculus, while the rest of you will take a practice Calculus test.
We (as in the nurses' vernacular "we"-- which really means "you") will take--and if time permits--review one last, complete, practice A.P. Lit. test on Tuesday, the 5th.

Our A.P. test itself is on Thursday, May 7th.

Don't worry about the final exam: I assure you that it'll seem like child's play after four hours with the College Board. Remember that your memory work from "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" will be due at the same time.

I hope to play you John Cleese's rendering of some of The Screwtape Letters on...on...

Unit 5 Test: The Romantics

WCA AP ENGLISH 2009

UNIT 5 TEST: THE ROMANTICS

Write a short essay response to two of the following following three
questions. Each of your answers should be about 250 words (i.e., the
equivalent of one printed double-spaced page).

1. As you will recall, in the "Preface" to Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth says poetry is "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity." This is the prototypical Romantic definition, illustrated again and again not only in Wordsworth's poetry but in the poetry of other Romantics as well. Illustrate the aptness of the definition by discussing three poems, each by a different Romantic poet -- Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, or Wordsworth himself. In your discussion of each poem, cite a specific passage in which Wordsworth's definition is particularly well-exemplified.

2. In the "Preface" to Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth's answer to the question "What is a poet?" is: "He is a man speaking to men: a man . . . endued with more . . . enthusiasm and enderness . . . than are supposed to be common among mankind." Illustrate the aptness of this definition by discussing three poems, each by a different Romantic poet -- Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, or Wordsworth himself. State as clearly as possible how each poem represents a
particularly effective application of Wordsworth's definition.

3. At the end of the passage from "Tintern Abbey" which you are memorizing, Wordsworth indicates that the effect of the poetic imagination on poets and readers is that "we see into the life of things." What does he mean? Illustrate what you think he means by discussing three poems, each by a different Romantic poet -- Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, or Wordsworth himself. In your discussion of each poem, cite a specific passage in which the concept of "seeing into the life of things" is especially prominent.

This exam should be printed out and handed in by 8:00 on Monday morning, April 27. Or, if you prefer, you may submit it by e-mail to: jdmevans@uga.edu or lynngate1@yahoo.com by 10:00 p.m. on Sunday April 26.

Also, remember the reading assignment for Monday is: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Break, Break, Break," "Crossing the Bar," and "Ulysses."