Literature 10
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Literary Terms |
Common Themes in Literature |
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2A. Themes
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2B. Themes 2 |
3A. Platinum Level |
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Julius
Caesar
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"We
all stand up to the spirit of Caesar,
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Antigone by Sophocles |
"This
girl is guilty of a double insolence,
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Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory |
"'Ah Sir Launcelot,' said King Arthur, 'this day have I sore missed thee: alas, that ever I was against thee, for now have I my death.'"
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The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas |
"Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss." |
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A Separate Peace by John Knowles |
"All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way -- if ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy." |
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The Awakening by Kate Chopin |
"It sometimes entered Mr. Pontellier's mind to wonder if his wife were not growing a little unbalanced mentally. He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world." |
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Night by Elie Wiesel |
"Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. . . . Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever . . . Never." |
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The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway |
"A man can be destroyed but not defeated."
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The Pearl by John Steinbeck |
"If this story is a parable, perhaps everyone takes his own meaning from it and reads his own life into it." |
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Silas Marner by George Eliot |
"The Power in which he had vainly trusted among the streets and in the prayer-meetings, was very far away from this land in which he had taken refuge, where men lived in careless abundance, knowing and needing nothing of that trust, which, for him, had been turned to bitterness." (no longer read in 10A) |
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder |
"If our secret lives were sufficiently examined and known, we would not seem better or worse than first thought; only more complex and mysterious." |
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The Giver by Lois Lowry |
"How could someone not fit in? The community was so meticulously ordered, the choices so carefully made."
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The Turn of the Screw by Henry James |
"They may show off to us there to their fill; but even while they pretend to be lost in their fairytale they're steeped in their vision of the dead restored . . . I go on, I know, as if I were crazy; and it's a wonder I'm not. What I've seen would have made you so; but it has only made me more lucid, made me get hold of still other things." | 10A | ||
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The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd |
"I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, bowbreat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it." |
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Summer Reading 2008 |
"Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discord of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness." -- Helen Keller | 10A | ||
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Short Stories |
"Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart." -- Salman Rushdie
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Poetry |
"A poet is somebody who feels, and who expresses his feelings through words. This may sound easy. It isn't." -- e. e. cummings |
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