Unit 10: Junior Year Review

Literary Devices

Syntax: the study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language and the study of patterns of formation of sentences and phrases from words.

Imagery: the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things

Diction: style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words

Tone: a particular quality, way of sounding, modulation, or intonation of the voice as expressive of some meaning, feeling, spirit

Point of View: the position of the narrator in relation to the story, as indicated by the narrator's outlook from which the events are depicted and by the attitude toward the characters

Book:   The Scarlet Letter

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Character List: Hester Prynne, Pearl, Roger Chillingworth, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, Governor Bellingham, Mistress Hibbins, Reverend Mr. John Wilson

Themes: Sin, Knowledge, Human Condition, Night vs. Day, Civilization vs. Wilderness, Identity and Society, the Nature of Evil

Book: Beloved

Author: Toni Morrison

Character List: Sethe, Denver, Beloved, Paul D, Baby Suggs, Stamp Paid, School teacher, Halle, Lady Jones, Ella, Mr. and Mrs. Garner, Mr. and Miss Bodwin, Amy Denver, Paul A, Paul F, and Sixo

Themes: Slavery’s Destruction of Identity, The Importance of Community Solidarity, The Powers and Limits of Language, The Supernatural

Book: The Great Gatsby

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Character List: Nick Carraway, Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan, Jordan Baker, Myrtle Wilson, George Wilson, Owl Eyes, Klipspringer

Themes: The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920’s, The Hollowness of the Upperclass

Book: Hamlet

Author: William Shakespeare

Character List: Hamlet, Claudius, Gertrude, Polonius, Horatio, Ophelia, Laertes, Fortinbras, the Ghost, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Osric, Voltimand and Cornelius, Marcellus and Bernardo, Francisco, Reynaldo

Themes: The Impossibility of Certainty, the Complexity of Action, the Mystery of Death, the Nation as a Diseased Body, Incest, Misogyny, Ears and Hearing

Book: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Author: Mark Twain

Character List: Tom Sawyer, Widow Douglas and Miss Watson, Jim, Pap, The Duke and the Dauphin, Judge Tatcher, The Grangerfords, The Wilks Family, Silas and Sally Phelps, Aunt Polly

Themes: Racism and Slavery, Intellectual and Moral Education, the Hypocrisy of “Civilized Society”, Childhood, Lies and Cons, Superstitions and Folk Beliefs, Parodies of Popular Romance Novels

Book: Macbeth

Author: William Shakespeare

Character List: Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, The Three Witches, Banquo, King Duncan, Macduff, Malcolm, Hecate, Fleance, Lennox, Ross, The Murderers, Porter, Lady Macduff, Donalbain

Themes: The Corrupting Power of Unchecked Ambition, the Relationship Between Cruelty and Masculinity, The Difference Between Kingship and Tyranny, Violence, Hallucinations, Prophecy

Book: Romeo and Juliet

Author: William Shakespeare

Character List: Romeo, Juliet, Friar Lawrence, Mercutio, The Nurse, Tybalt, Capulet, Lady Capulet, Montague, Lady Montague, Paris, Benvolio, Prince Escalus, Friar John, Balthasar, Sampson and Gregory, Abram, The Apothecary, Peter, Rosaline, The Chorus.

Themes: The forcefulness of love, Love as a cause of violence, the individual versus society, and the inevitability of Fate.