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Xavier College Preparatory High School Summer Reading 2020 XAVIER COLLEGE PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL SUMMER READING 2020 Dear Incoming AP Literature Senior, We hope that this letter finds you well and anticipating the end of a rewarding year. We hope that you will have many good experiences and make many good decisions before we see you again in August. One of those decisions we would like to help you with is the decision to remain engaged in some kind of academic activity this summer. It is our belief that encouraging students to read year-round is a key element in the development of lifelong learners. While the summer is certainly time to be away from school, we hope that it is not a time to stop reading, thinking, and growing. Required Books: ● How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster (2014 Revised Edition) ​ ● The Awakening by Kate Chopin ​ You will have two (2) assignments this summer: Assignment #1: You will read two books this summer (see below). These required works will be part of ​ ​ the overall theme of the year, Literature Through a Critical Theory Lens, where we will focus on the ​ ​ introduction to contemporary critical theory, by applying common approaches to literary analysis - psychoanalytic/Freudian; feminist/gender criticism; new historicism; Marxism; mythological/archetypal; critical race theory; and post-colonial criticism - to various works of literature. 1) How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster (2014 Revised Edition) - In order ​ to start our journey of looking at literature through a critical theory lens, we will read through Foster’s classic guide to help us discover hidden truths by looking with the eyes - and the literary codes - of the ultimate professional reader - the college professor. What does it mean when a literary hero walks down a dusty road? When he hands a drink to his companion? When he’s drenched in a sudden rain shower? Ranging from major themes to literary models, narrative devices, and form, Foster will provide us with a broad overview of literature that we will use as a literary companion text throughout our reading journey this year. Summer assignment link (due the first day of class): As you read along with the book, you will be ​ expected to complete the attached reading/questions packet: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iBZ-Vh9ITbX2QH7hCEA9T7U2T482-Na6zE8xJiFF6GU/edit 2) The Awakening by Kate Chopin - As you read this classic novel, you will create a “What/How ​ ​ Chart” (pdf attached) - As literary analysts, every time we analyze we are attempting to answer ​ two essential questions: 1. What is the author trying to say or accomplish through the text (theme/overall meaning)? 2. How is the author trying to get that message across (narrative style, form, literary devices, characterization, etc.)? To help us practice this basis for literary analysis, I ​ want you to create the following chart for Kate Chopin’s classic novel, The Awakening. ​ ​ Summer Assignment link (due the first day of class): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UCtpHz7vVo1si9ePk-CZf_qQeL8csUh2FdQAyAL9grE/edit 34-200 Cook Street, Palm Desert, CA 92211 (760) 601-3900 . FAX (760) 601--3901 . www.xavierprep.org Assignment #2: You will also complete a note card assignment. As you did last year with ​ ​ rhetorical terms, you will do the same with literary/poetic terms/dramatic conventions. Rules: the key terms will be on one side of the card, while the definitions and examples will be on the other side. ​ These note cards will be turned in the first day of class and you have an exam to verify knowledge of this content in August. These terms will be used throughout the year. These cards will be due the first day of class, graded, and then returned to you so that you are able to use them throughout the year in preparation for the AP Literature and Composition Exam. The format should be as follows: ​ 1) Side one of the card must have the number of the term in the top left corner, and the term itself in ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ the middle of the card. ​ 2) Side two of the card must have the definition of the term, then a space, then at least one ​ ​ ​ example of the term used in actual text. You may acquire examples from any book or other resource, but please make sure that you understand the meaning of the term based on the example(s) you provide. 3) Be sure to study each of the 111 Literary terms, backwards and forwards. You will have a test on them, ​ ​ ​ where you will identify the terms, in the context of a chosen poem, the first week of class. If you have any ​ questions, please email Mrs. Eldridge: [email protected] ​ AP Literature & Composition Literary/Poetic Terms/Dramatic Conventions 1. Allegory - a story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for ​ abstract ideas or qualities. 2. Anagnorisis – This describes a revelation of sorts that happens to a character, often helping the character to ​ make sense of things and better his or her lot. This sort of device is very important in the Existential framework. 3. Alliteration - the repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds at the beginning of words that are close ​ together. 4. Allusion - reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, politics, sports, ​ science, or another branch of culture. 5. Ambiguity - Deliberately suggesting two or more different, and sometimes conflicting, meanings in a work. ​ ​ ​ 6. Anaphora - Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row. ​ 7. Antagonist - Opponent who struggles against or blocks the hero, or protagonist, in a story. ​ 8. Anticlimax - The intentional use of fancy language to describe the trivial or commonplace, or a sudden transition ​ from a significant thought to a trivial one in order to achieve a humorous or satirical effect. 9. Antithesis - a figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas, as in: ​ Man proposes; God disposes. Antithesis is a balancing of one term against another for emphasis or stylistic effectiveness. 10. Anti-hero - Central character who lacks all the qualities traditionally associated with heroes. May ​ lack courage, grace, intelligence, or moral scruples. 34-200 Cook Street, Palm Desert, CA 92211 (760) 601-3900 . FAX (760) 601--3901 . www.xavierprep.org 11. Apostrophe - Calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or a ​ personified abstract idea. 12. Archetype - An idealized model of a person, object, or concept from which similar instances are derived, ​ copied, patterned, or emulated. 13. Aside - A comment made by a stage performer that is intended to be heard by the audience but ​ supposedly not by other characters. 14. Assonance - The repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds especially in words ​ that are together. Example: “Do not go gentle into that good night.” 15. Asyndeton - Commas used without conjunction to separate a series of words, thus emphasizing the ​ parts equally: instead of X, Y, and Z...the writer uses X,Y,Z. 16. Black Humor – By definition, black humor describes a form of comedy that sources from the pathetic ​ absurdity of human suffering and human existence. 17. Blank Verse - Poetry written without rhymes, but which retains a set metrical pattern, usually ​ iambic pentameter. 18. Cacophony - Unpleasant sounds in the jarring juxtaposition of harsh letters or syllables which are grating to the ​ ear, usually inadvertent, but sometimes deliberately used in poetry for effect. 19. Caesura - a pause, usually near the middle of a line of verse, usually indicated by the sense of the line, and ​ often greater than the normal pause. 20. Catharsis - A sudden emotional breakdown or climax that consists of overwhelming feelings of great pity, ​ sorrow, laughter, or any extreme change in emotion. 21. Chiasmus - In poetry, a type of rhetorical balance in which the second part is syntactically balanced against the ​ first, but with the parts reversed. 22. Cliche - A word or phrase, often a figure of speech, that has become lifeless because of overuse. ​ 23. Conceit - an ingenious and fanciful notion or conception, usually expressed through an elaborate analogy, and ​ pointing to a striking parallel between two seemingly dissimilar things. A conceit may be a brief metaphor, but it also may form the framework of an entire poem. 24. Conflict - In any play, conflict between characters and internal conflicts within particular characters drive the ​ plot. 25. Consonance - In poetry, when words appearing at the ends of two or more verses have similar final consonant ​ sounds but have final vowel sounds that differ, as with "stuff" and "off." 26. Couplet - Two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry. ​ 34-200 Cook Street, Palm Desert, CA 92211 (760) 601-3900 . FAX (760) 601--3901 . www.xavierprep.org 27. Denouement – the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together ​ ​ and matters are explained or resolved. 28. Deus ex machina - Any artificial device or coincidence used to bring about a convenient and simple solution to ​ a plot. 29. Devices of Sound - the techniques of deploying the sound of words, especially in poetry. Among devices of ​ sound are rhyme, alliteration, assonance, consonance, and onomatopoeia. The devices are used for many reasons, including to create a general effect of pleasant or of discordant sound, to imitate another sound, or to reflect a meaning 30. Dialect - A way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain social group or of the inhabitants of a certain ​ geographical area. 31. Diction - The choice of words, phrases, sentence structures, and figurative language in a literary work; the ​ manner or mode of verbal expression, particularly with regard to clarity and accuracy.
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