PAPER 2 PRACTICE

THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WRITE LEGIBLY

SUPER CHALLENGING TRIVIA: #IBEXAMREVIEW FOR EACH NOVEL—TURN AND TALK: Pride and Prejudice To The Lighthouse The Guide Never Let Me Go Correctly spell the first and last names of each author. What year was each novel published? Where was each novel published?

SUPER CHALLENGING TRIVIA: #IBEXAMREVIEW KEY Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen – 1813 – England To The Lighthouse – Virginia Stephens Woolf (no e at the end) – 1927 – England – The Guide 1958 R.K. Narayan India – Composed in English Never Let Me Go – 2005 – Kazuo Ishiguro – England Japanese-born British author, written in English

GENERAL COMMENTS “Novel,” not “Book” Be specific about WHEN things happen in the novels (you don’t need to know the exact chapter, but you should know fairly precisely) Introduce characters the first time you mention them Don’t forget context. “Drive the plot” = vague. Be specific.

GENERAL COMMENTS Critically read the prompt. Mark it up. Underline key terms. –See “Unpacking the Prompt” link online Underline titles of novels EVERY time New novel, new paragraph (even on the same point) Fully developed and detailed examples supporting each claim are the most important thing: show what you know! Detail!

TOPIC VS. THEME Marriage is a topic, not a theme A theme is expressed by a phrase: “the importance of marriage for love,” for example; or “the restricting nature of marriage”

APOSTROPHE? NO APOSTROPHE? Plurals don’t need an apostrophe. They are simply formed by adding an “s”: –The Ramsays went to the beach –When the cats are away the mice will play Possessives DO need apostrophes. –Mrs. Ramsay’s shawl symbolizes fertility. (The shawl belongs to Mrs. Ramsay) –The Ramsays’ beach house is falling apart. (The beach house belongs to the Ramsays.) –The cats’ whiskers twitched when they smelled the mice. (The whiskers belong to the cats)

HYPHENS AND POINT OF VIEW First-person point of view Second-person perspective Third-person omniscient narrator

EVALUATION Don’t forget it. You can’t reach a 4 or 5 on criterion B without it no matter how well you respond to the question and compare and contrast.

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE Don’t forget the entailment and it’s importance to the plot. Explain it if you use it. Be able to clearly and correctly explain point of view Pride and Prejudice is NOT a Victorian novel. It is written and takes place before the Victorian era, in Regency England.

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE CONT. Irony of all types is a convention regularly used by Austen: dramatic, situational and verbal. Don’t forget about it. Be able to clearly and correctly explain free indirect speech. Find a good example of free indirect speech and memorize it in case you want to talk about Austen’s use of the technique…for example: –…at that moment she felt that to be mistress of Pemberley might be something! –Context: She and the Gardiners have just driven up to a viewpoint where they can see the house of Pemberley.

TO THE LIGHTHOUSE Memorize and use the names of the 3 sections If you discuss the “angel in the house,” explain it Be able to clearly explain point of view in the novel. If you talk about stream-of-consciousness, explain it.

MORE GENERAL COMMENTS Remember to compare AND contrast You should be writing a minimum of 4 pages. If you choose a prompt that asks you to write about the beginning or the ending (or the beginning and the ending), don’t get stuck ONLY discussing the beginning/ending Don’t quote unless you can do it accurately

TERMINOLOGY Use your terms correctly. Have and be using the Glossary of Terms I gave you for the novel. Be sure you can correctly explain the conventions.

PROMPT #7 “close narrator” is not a thing. The prompt talks about the narrator’s closeness to or distance from the action ALL novels are narrated. A narrator is a convention of the novel. The choice the author makes is the TYPE of narrator. Some of you were claiming that a similarity of the novels was they both had narrators. Internal monologue did not exist in Austen’s time, so it is not a technique you can claim she used. (See P and P Vol. 2 Ch. 13)

PROMPT #8 Many of you did not fully address the prompt. You must address both parts. Define epiphany in the intro (unpack the prompt) Darcy and Elizabeth are both in the same class (gentry). It’s wealth that differentiates them (and her “connections,” because some of her relations are in trade) Darcy’s letter doesn’t cause Elizabeth to fall in love with him. Her epiphany involves her realizing that her vanity blinded her to the truth about his and Wickham’s characters The novel is narrated by a third person omniscient narrator. Although Elizabeth is the protagonist the novel is not told from her point of view.

PROMPT #9 Required you to clearly define your understanding of “beauty” in a work of literature Doesn’t specify a convention, but you need to be sure to talk about conventions (how)

What did I do well in this essay? What are my goals (specific and attainable) as I look towards the Paper 2 exam in May? (Choose 2)