senior midterm 1
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Paragraph Writing Warm-up:In a well-written paragraph, connect the lit. element to a specific moment in one of the works we read this semester. Follow the
format/look at the example on your review handout:
(1)Controlling idea (2) specific text evidence (3) commentary.
To receive full credit for each question, answers must be at least four sentences and follow the format reviewed in class.
SYMBOL
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CatcherID/Explain the quote
Mouth Art?
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Name thatCuckoo’s character
Lit. Termz
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things
Metaphor
Something that represents itself and something beyond itself
symbol
Scene that interrupts the
ongoing action in a story to show an
event that happened earlier
flashback
Passing reference to historical or fictional place,
event, character, or other work
allusion
Recurring object, concept or
structure that has symbolic
significance
motif
Holden nostalgically
reminisces about how this girl used to play checkers
Jane Gallagher
What or who is the “catcher in the
rye”?
Holden’s dream of preserving innocence
Holden’s younger, dead brother
Allie Caufield
Describe the symbolism:
-Holden’s individuality/ his desire to stand out
-At the same time, his desire to retreat and hide
= Holden’s conflict of isolation vs. companionship
Also RED = Allie and Phoebe’s hair color = preserving innocence?
The reclusive author of Catcher
JD Salinger
This is the Combine chief
agent on the ward, according to the
narrator
Nurse Ratched
This person transferred to the
Ward from Pendleton Work
Farm
Randle McMurphy
This acute is seemingly educated
and eloquent
Harding
This acute stutters
Billy Bibbit
This person consistently
complains of fatigue
Pete Bancini
“Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.”
“Yes, sir. I know it is. I know it.”
Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it’s a
game, all right—I’ll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren’t any hot-shots, then what’s a game about it? Nothing.
No game.
-Holden’s conversation with Mr. Spenser before leaving Pencey Prep
-After Spenser read his failing test aloud to him, Spenser tells Holden he needs to
“play by the rules”
-Holden = on the “other side” of the game = disadvantage
I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy
telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really
happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth
even if it didn’t happen.
-Chief Bromden
-Introducing the story of McMurphy, the Ward, etc.
-His intro/request for reader to keep an open mind re: reliability of his narrative, which is
heavily influenced by EST/medication/hallucinations
. . . I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch
everybody if they start to go over the cliff—I mean if they’re running and they
don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch
them. That’s all I’d do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all.
-Holden, speaking to Phoebe about what he wants to do with his life
-reveals fantasy of idealistic childhood, Holden as protector/preserver of innocence
-Phoebe rejection of idea = reveals Holden’s disconnection with reality/the real world
The flock gets sight of a spot of blood on some chicken and they all go to peckin’ at it, see, till they rip the chicken to shreds, blood and bones and feathers. But usually a couple of the flock gets spotted in the fracas, then it’s their turn. And a few more gets spots and gets pecked to death, and more and more. Oh, a peckin’ party can wipe out the whole
flock in a matter of a few hours, buddy, I seen it
McMurphy speaking to Harding and other patients about first Group (therapy) Meeting
-After entire group was tearing into Harding about his inability to please his wife, his
insecurities, etc.
-McMurphy shocked by behavior of patients and staff; he says Ratched maintains power by
“divide and conquer” strategy (pinning patients against one another)
-Meetings = Ratched’s power/manipulation
“I have a feeling that you’re riding for some kind of terrible, terrible fall. . . . The whole
arrangement’s designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were
looking for something their own environment couldn’t supply them with. . . .
So they gave up looking.”
-Mr. Antolini speaking to Holden (after Holden leaves parents’ apartment)
-Holden thinks he can trust/confide in Antolini, and that Antolini will tell him
what Holden wants to hear/relate to Holden
-Instead, Antolini tells Holden he’s in the midst of a “fall”– an apathetic one in which
he gives up on world around him
In a well-spoken paragraph, connect the lit. element to a specific moment in one of the works we read this semester. Follow the
format we went over during review: (1)Controlling idea (2) specific text evidence (3) commentary.
To receive full credit for each question, answers must be at least four sentences and follow the format reviewed in class.
SYMBOLISM
Question 1e
In a well-spoken paragraph, connect the lit. element to a specific moment in one of the works we read this semester.
Follow the format we went over during review: (1)Controlling idea (2) specific text evidence (3)
commentary.
To receive full credit for each question, answers must be at least four sentences and follow the format reviewed in class.
Unreliable Narrator
Question 2e
In a well-spoken paragraph, connect the lit. element to a specific moment in one of the works we read this semester.
Follow the format we went over during review: (1)Controlling idea (2) specific text evidence (3)
commentary.
To receive full credit for each question, answers must be at least four sentences and follow the format reviewed in class.
THEME
Question 3e
In a well-spoken paragraph, connect the lit. element to a specific moment in one of the works we read this semester.
Follow the format we went over during review: (1)Controlling idea (2) specific text evidence (3)
commentary.
To receive full credit for each question, answers must be at least four sentences and follow the format reviewed in class.
RECURRING MOTIF
Question 4e
In a well-spoken paragraph, connect the lit. element to a specific moment in one of the works we read this semester.
Follow the format we went over during review: (1)Controlling idea (2) specific text evidence (3) commentary.
To receive full credit for each question, answers must be at least four sentences and follow the format reviewed in class.
STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Question 5e
Make your wager
This is the author of “Comin’ Thro the Rye,” whose poem lends its name to
Salinger’s novel The Catcher in the Rye
Robert Burns