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AP Lit Text ID Final
Question | Answer |
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Mrs. Dalloway | A: Virginia Woolf P: 1925 The perception of time and how a person's decisions can change how they interact with others and society and how happiness is measured. |
The Mayor of Casterbridge | A: Thomas Hardy P: 1886 Shows how actions can have reactions bad or good even if the person who committed the action does not want those reactions. |
How Do I Love Thee? (sonnet 43) | A: Elizabeth Barrett Browning P: 1845–1846 Counting all the ways that the speaker loves someone and the amount of love that a person can have for another individual. |
Sonnet 18 | A: William Shakespeare P: 1564-1616 How the speaker will compare their love to the beauty and amazement of a summer day, and how with this sonnet the speaker's love will always live on. |
Story of an Hour | A: Kate Chopin P: 1894 The importance of women having their own voice in the world and being able to make their own decisions. |
Hamlet | A: William Shakespeare P: 1599-1601 Hamlet discussed how decisions are made and how waiting for something to occur could result in a bad outcome however it has to occur this way in order for it to be a tragedy. |
Hamlet's Soliloquy (Act 1, Scene 2) | A: William Shakespeare Hamlet talks about his cowardice and also his disdain for his mother marrying his uncle only two months after the death of his father. |
Hamlet's Soliloquy (To be or not to be) | A: William Shakespeare Why people choose to live rather than die. |
The Namesake | A: Jhumpa Lahiri Having something different about you is good and it is a special gift that not everyone should get, and you should appreciate it, especially when everyone else goes. |
The Paper Menagerie | A: Ken Liu P: 2011 Discusses how someone can struggle between their old identity and a new and the new identity is only their in order to assimilate to a different culture, and others realization of assimilating to that culture. |
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | A: T.S. Elliot P: 1915 Shows the struggles a person feels towards ideals that they do not easily get, and the feelings that come with the inability to perform a task or get something. (ugly man tries to get a girl) |
Introduction to Poetry | A: Billy Colins P: 1988 Billy Collins is trying to show how others (mostly those who do not write poetry) should appreciate poetry and those who write it. |
Hills like White Elephants | A: Ernest Hemmingway P: 1927 Hills like white elephants is a man trying to convince a woman to have an abortion, because like a white elephant you want to get rid of it. |
Batter my Heart | A: John Donne P: 1633 The speaker wants to be broken in his mortal life so that he will be able to have endless salvation with god. |
Death be Not Proud | A: John Donne P: 1949 Examines death and how others may view death as something to avoid or feel tragedy over, he wishes to take it as a good thing. |
Thou Blinds Man Mark | A: Philip Sidney P: 1598 Phillip Sidney talks about the poison of desire and how it ruins peoples lives however he discusses at the very end that desire could be a good thing. |
Rozencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead | A: Tom Stoppard |