Advanced Placement English Literature & Composition

Summer Assignment

This summer assignment has been designed with purpose by both your teacher and the class of seniors before you to reflect the most

rigorous and analytical concepts of the class. These skills are absolutely mandatory for you to master in order to be successful in this course. As

suggested by the peers before you, please take each element of the assignment seriously and be thorough, as this is certainly not the last time

you will need it! The entire assignment consists of two parts, both of which are included in this document. They are the 1) Literary Device Chart

and 2) Jaws Assignment activities. To help you with each assignment, you will need the themes list provided here. YOU WILL BE TESTED ON

LITERARY DEVICES IN THE FIRST WEEK!

This themes list will be your “bread and butter” when analyzing any work we read this year! You will use it immediately in these

activities and a number of times throughout the class. HANG ON TO THIS PIECE OF PAPER!

- Alienation - Ambition - Appearance vs. reality - Betrayal - Bureaucracy - Chance/fate/luck - Children - Courage/cowardice - Cruelty/violence - Custom/reality - Defeat/failure - Despair/discontentment/disillusio

nment - Domination/suppression - Dreams/fantasies - Duty - Education/school - Escape - Exile - Faith/loss of faith - Falsity/pretence - Family/parenthood - Free will/will power - Game/contests/sports

- Greed - Guilt - Heart vs. reason - Heaven/paradise/utopia - Home - Illusion/innocence - Initiation - Instinct - Journey/psychological journey - Law/justice - Loneliness/aloneness - Loyalty - Materialism - Memory/the past - Mob psychology - Music, dance - Mysterious stranger - Patriotism - Persistence/perseverance - Poverty - Prejudice - Prophecy - Repentance - Resistance/rebellion

- Revenge/retribution - Ritual/ceremony - Scapegoat/victim - Search for identity - Social status - Supernatural - Time/eternity - War - Women/feminism

1) Literary Device Chart

Device Definition Provide an Example (you can create

one or find one in literature)

Allegory

Alliteration

Allusion

Anachronism

Anecdote

Anthropomorphism

Antihero

Apostrophe

Aside

Assonance

Ballad

Bathos, Pathos

Black humor

Cadence

Canto

Catharsis

Chorus

Colloquialism

Conceit, Controlling

Image

Connotation

Denotation

Consonance

Couplet

Diction

Syntax

Irony (and types)

Elegy

Enjambment

Epic

Epitaph

Farce

Foil

Free verse

Gothic, Gothic novel

Hubris

Hyperbole

Implicit

In medias res

Irony

Metaphor

Simile

Metaphysical conceit

Metonymy

Objectivity

Subjectivity

Omniscient narrator

Oxymoron

Parable

Paradox

Parallelism

Parody

Personification

Point of view (and types)

Protagonist/Antagonist

Pun

Rhetorical question

Satire

Soliloquy

Stock characters

Stream of consciousness

Subjunctive mood

Suspension of disbelief

Theme

Tragic flaw

Utopia/Dystopia

2) Jaws Assignment

Story-creators (writers/authors, directors, etc.) create their own worlds and their own rules. Justice and Fairness exist and are typically rewarding. Usually, the

good guys win; contrastingly, “bad guys” and rule-breakers get punished (which is not always the case in reality). They try to make it clear from the very beginning of

the story who the reader/audience is supposed to like and dislike, and they leave hints about the finale all the way until the end. Your job as the reader/audience is to

try to uncover those hints to figure out the end before it happens. This is the case in all forms of media (books, plays, movies, tv shows, poems, songs, etc.). STOP AND

RE-READ THIS PARAGRAPH AT LEAST ONCE BEFORE MOVING ON!

Watch Jaws (1975). You MUST watch the whole thing; otherwise, your analysis of how the writer foreshadowed the finale won’t make sense. Complete the

chart for each scene (listed at the top).

(I’m using the chapter titles from the DVD—look up on YouTube):

EXAMPLE:

Scene/Chapter: “Chrissie’s Last Swim”

Character Adjectives to describe character in this scene (4):

How is the audience supposed to

feel about her?

Themes dealt with (3):

Explanation of how character deals with theme

(explain EACH):

Therefore, what are his/her chances of success/survival

(regardless of ending)?

Chrissie

Don’t give me synonyms. Pay attention to connotation: positive or negative? Impulsive Idiotic Naïve Irresponsible Ignorant Foolhardy Reckless

If the adjectives you chose are primarily positive, we’re probably supposed to LIKE this character; if the adjectives are mostly negative, we’re probably going to DISLIKE this character. Briefly explain why. We’re not supposed to like her initially: she’s breaking the rules AND being irresponsible about it! She’s acting like an idiot. I don’t like her.

You should notice that these start to connect! Don’t limit yourself to the definition of the theme! Think of anything related (refer to Themes List above) Rebellion Coming of age/ youth Freedom Duty/ responsibility Naivete Fear/lack thereof

No plot summary—I’ve seen the movie. Explain to me what you think ABOUT the themes you listed. She’s breaking the rules of social norms and expectations for her gender and age. She’s free because of her youth and lack of duty/responsibility. This drives her to behave impulsively. She should have more fear of

We should be able to assume the outcome of each character even when we’re first introduced to him/her, so focus on the very first time we meet the character. Don’t tell me what WILL or DOES happen; tell me what you think might. IT’S OKAY TO BE WRONG! JUST MAKE A HYPOTHESIS/TAKE A RISK! Something bad will happen at the least. Probably she’ll die. She’s being reckless hanging out in the ocean when she shouldn’t be. Plus, she’s smoking, drinking, and skinny-dipping, which is typically seen as “bad behavior.”

the ocean—it’s not her territory or home and presents a real threat. Her lack of fear demonstrates stupidity.

Scene/Chapter: “A Feast for the Crabs”

Character Adjectives to describe character in this scene (4):

How is the audience

supposed to feel about her?

Themes dealt with (3):

Explanation of how character deals with

theme (explain EACH):

Therefore, what are his chances of success/survival?

Brody

Scene/Chapter: “The Town Meeting”

Character Adjectives to describe character in this scene (4):

How is the audience

supposed to feel about her?

Themes dealt with (3):

Explanation of how character deals with

theme (explain EACH):

Therefore, what are his chances of success/survival?

Brody

Quint

Scene/Chapter: “The Shark Hunters”

Character Adjectives to describe character in this scene (4):

How is the audience

supposed to feel about her?

Themes dealt with (3):

Explanation of how character deals with

theme (explain EACH):

Therefore, what are his chances of success/survival?

Brody

Quint

Mr. Hooper

Scene/Chapter: “Face to Face”

Character Adjectives to describe character in this scene (4):

How is the audience

supposed to feel about her?

Themes dealt with (3):

Explanation of how character deals with

theme (explain EACH):

Therefore, what are his chances of success/survival?

Brody

Quint

Mr. Hooper

Scene/Chapter: “Scars”

Character Adjectives to describe character in this scene (4):

How is the audience

supposed to feel about her?

Themes dealt with (3):

Explanation of how character deals with

theme (explain EACH):

Therefore, what are his chances of success/survival?

Brody

Quint

Mr. Hooper

Scene/Chapter: “Quint’s Last Stand”

Character Adjectives to describe character in this scene (4):

How is the audience

supposed to feel about her?

Themes dealt with (3):

Explanation of how character deals with

theme (explain EACH):

Therefore, what are his chances of success/survival?

Brody

Quint

Mr. Hooper