Senior midterm 1

Paragraph Writing Warm-up:In a well-written paragraph, connect the lit. element to a specific moment in one of the works we read this semester. Follow the

format/look at the example on your review handout:

(1)Controlling idea (2) specific text evidence (3) commentary.

To receive full credit for each question, answers must be at least four sentences and follow the format reviewed in class.

SYMBOL

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CatcherID/Explain the quote

Mouth Art?

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Name thatCuckoo’s character

Lit. Termz

A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things

Metaphor

Something that represents itself and something beyond itself

symbol

Scene that interrupts the

ongoing action in a story to show an

event that happened earlier

flashback

Passing reference to historical or fictional place,

event, character, or other work

allusion

Recurring object, concept or

structure that has symbolic

significance

motif

Holden nostalgically

reminisces about how this girl used to play checkers

Jane Gallagher

What or who is the “catcher in the

rye”?

Holden’s dream of preserving innocence

Holden’s younger, dead brother

Allie Caufield

Describe the symbolism:

-Holden’s individuality/ his desire to stand out

-At the same time, his desire to retreat and hide

= Holden’s conflict of isolation vs. companionship

Also RED = Allie and Phoebe’s hair color = preserving innocence?

The reclusive author of Catcher

JD Salinger

This is the Combine chief

agent on the ward, according to the

narrator

Nurse Ratched

This person transferred to the

Ward from Pendleton Work

Farm

Randle McMurphy

This acute is seemingly educated

and eloquent

Harding

This acute stutters

Billy Bibbit

This person consistently

complains of fatigue

Pete Bancini

“Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.”

“Yes, sir. I know it is. I know it.”

Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it’s a

game, all right—I’ll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren’t any hot-shots, then what’s a game about it? Nothing.

No game.

-Holden’s conversation with Mr. Spenser before leaving Pencey Prep

-After Spenser read his failing test aloud to him, Spenser tells Holden he needs to

“play by the rules”

-Holden = on the “other side” of the game = disadvantage

I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy

telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really

happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth

even if it didn’t happen.

-Chief Bromden

-Introducing the story of McMurphy, the Ward, etc.

-His intro/request for reader to keep an open mind re: reliability of his narrative, which is

heavily influenced by EST/medication/hallucinations

. . . I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch

everybody if they start to go over the cliff—I mean if they’re running and they

don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch

them. That’s all I’d do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all.

-Holden, speaking to Phoebe about what he wants to do with his life

-reveals fantasy of idealistic childhood, Holden as protector/preserver of innocence

-Phoebe rejection of idea = reveals Holden’s disconnection with reality/the real world

The flock gets sight of a spot of blood on some chicken and they all go to peckin’ at it, see, till they rip the chicken to shreds, blood and bones and feathers. But usually a couple of the flock gets spotted in the fracas, then it’s their turn. And a few more gets spots and gets pecked to death, and more and more. Oh, a peckin’ party can wipe out the whole

flock in a matter of a few hours, buddy, I seen it

McMurphy speaking to Harding and other patients about first Group (therapy) Meeting

-After entire group was tearing into Harding about his inability to please his wife, his

insecurities, etc.

-McMurphy shocked by behavior of patients and staff; he says Ratched maintains power by

“divide and conquer” strategy (pinning patients against one another)

-Meetings = Ratched’s power/manipulation

“I have a feeling that you’re riding for some kind of terrible, terrible fall. . . . The whole

arrangement’s designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were

looking for something their own environment couldn’t supply them with. . . .

So they gave up looking.”

-Mr. Antolini speaking to Holden (after Holden leaves parents’ apartment)

-Holden thinks he can trust/confide in Antolini, and that Antolini will tell him

what Holden wants to hear/relate to Holden

-Instead, Antolini tells Holden he’s in the midst of a “fall”– an apathetic one in which

he gives up on world around him

In a well-spoken paragraph, connect the lit. element to a specific moment in one of the works we read this semester. Follow the

format we went over during review: (1)Controlling idea (2) specific text evidence (3) commentary.

To receive full credit for each question, answers must be at least four sentences and follow the format reviewed in class.

SYMBOLISM

Question 1e

In a well-spoken paragraph, connect the lit. element to a specific moment in one of the works we read this semester.

Follow the format we went over during review: (1)Controlling idea (2) specific text evidence (3)

commentary.

To receive full credit for each question, answers must be at least four sentences and follow the format reviewed in class.

Unreliable Narrator

Question 2e

In a well-spoken paragraph, connect the lit. element to a specific moment in one of the works we read this semester.

Follow the format we went over during review: (1)Controlling idea (2) specific text evidence (3)

commentary.

To receive full credit for each question, answers must be at least four sentences and follow the format reviewed in class.

THEME

Question 3e

In a well-spoken paragraph, connect the lit. element to a specific moment in one of the works we read this semester.

Follow the format we went over during review: (1)Controlling idea (2) specific text evidence (3)

commentary.

To receive full credit for each question, answers must be at least four sentences and follow the format reviewed in class.

RECURRING MOTIF

Question 4e

In a well-spoken paragraph, connect the lit. element to a specific moment in one of the works we read this semester.

Follow the format we went over during review: (1)Controlling idea (2) specific text evidence (3) commentary.

To receive full credit for each question, answers must be at least four sentences and follow the format reviewed in class.

STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Question 5e

Make your wager

This is the author of “Comin’ Thro the Rye,” whose poem lends its name to

Salinger’s novel The Catcher in the Rye

Robert Burns