Ms. Bridges' AP English

Notes on Multiple Choice Questions on “To His Coy Mistress” Anaphora: the repetition of a word at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences. Example: “I had never seen a zebra crossing before, never seen a tram, never seen an unsliced loaf of bread, never seen anyone wearing a beret who expected to be taken seriously, never seen people go into different shops to buy separate courses for their dinner....” from Bill Bryson’s NEITHER HERE NOR THERE. The use of the anaphora heightens emotional impact, increases the importance, emphasizes the emotion or builds tension. It drives home the point of the writer. Sedentary: not active; spending most of one’s time sitting Confound: to destroy Synethesia: the mixing up of the senses: to see music, to hear color, etc. Used in literature to suggest an intense heightened artistic/aesthetic sensibility and/or pathology. Libidinous: sexual desire. The libido is sexual energy; libidinous is the adjective describing someone as having...

CLIFFNOTES; pages 185 - 187 Meditation by John Donne Multiple Choice Questions Vocabulary: Firmament: the skies Vicissitudinary: (noun) the ups and downs of life Equinoctial: (adjective) having to do with the equinox; of equal division. Malignant: evil; of evil intent; cancerous Pestilential: (adjective) having to do with a virulent, dangerous epidemic Intestine: internal What is John Donne’s thesis? What is his theme? Are happiness and misery meted out in equal measure? Why is it not necessarily a good thing the disease has declared itself so that the doctor may more clearly see it now? Rack: a medieval form of torture which literally pulled a person’s joints apart. Cordial: a sweet alcoholic drink Scarce: rare, hardly, running out Encumbrances: burdensome, something that inhibits movement Allay: combination of metals; alloy He drinks misery, and he tastes happiness. For  homework: answer the questions on pages 186 - 187.

December 3, 2012 – December 7 th Weekly Agenda for A.P. English Literature Monday, December 3 rd : Please bring your packet to class today. We will go over “Meditation 17”   by John Donne and “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell. Please bring your yellow and black book, CLIFFNOTES.   We will do the multiple choice questions over John Donne’s essay “Medition”, page 185. Tuesday, December 4 th : Homework assignment on adjective clauses.   Briefly go over.   The assignment on adjective clauses will be due on Wednesday, December 5 th . The packet on Elizabethan sonnets by Shakespeare will be passed out and assigned today.   For homework, please read all the sonnets   and answer the questions. We will pair up, choose one of the sonnets to analyze and present to the class. Wednesday, December 5 th : Sonnet presentations Thursday, December 6 th : Read prompts and released student essays. Discuss. Friday, December 7 ...

November 26, 2012 - November 30, 2012 Weekly Agenda for A.P. English Literature Monday, November 26th: In class timed essay: Analysis of a foil in HAMLET which serves to highlight a character or advance the theme of HAMLET. Tuesday, November 27th: Please bring your CLIFFNOTES paperback book (yellow and black book) to class today every day this week: Poetry Selection; multiple choice questions For homework; due Wednesday: Read "Carpe Diem"; biography of Christopher Marlowe and Sir Walter Raleigh Poems: "The Passionate Shepard to His Love by Marlowe and "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepard" Wednesday, November 28th: Poetry Selection; multiple choice questions For homework, due Thursday, November 29th: in your Cavalier Poets' Packet, please read the following: page 269: Ben Jonson; page 270: “Still to Be Neat”, “Song to Celia” and “On My First Son” page 271; “Comment: Ben Jonson’s Vision of His Son” Please answer: page 272: “Sti...