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- According to Shakespeare, "in Antony & Cleopatra, we are presented with a hero and heroine of grand stature who are undone by their transcendent love and devotion to one another." Do you agree or disagree? (This quote is from the USAD packe
- Source: USAD Lang/Lit Packet - 7.1.2
- According to George Bernard Shaw, "Shakespeare's Antony & Cleopatra must be as intolerable to the true Puritan as it is distressing to the ordinary healthy citizen, because, after giving a faithful picture of the soldier broken down by debaucher
- Source: USAD Lang/Lit Packet - 9.1.5
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Compare and contrast the following opinions of Shakespeare's Antony & Cleopatra.
Shakespeare:"We are presented with a hero and heroine of grand stature who are undone by their transcendent love and devotion to one another."
- Source: USAD Lang/Lit Packet - 7.1.2 and 9.1.5
- One of the strongest human drives seems to be a desire for power. Write an essay in which you discuss how a character in Much Ado About Nothing or Antony & Cleopatra struggles to free himself or herself from the power of others or seeks to gain power
- Source: AP English Lit Exam 2005 FRQ, Form B
- Critic Roland Barthes has said, "Literature is a question minus the answer." Choose one of the novels or plays selected this year and, considering Barthes' observation, write an essay in which you analyze a central question the work raises and
- Source: AP English Lit Exam 2004 FRQ, Form A
- The most important themes in literature are sometimes developed in scenes in which a death or deaths take place. Choose a novel or play and write a well-organized essay in which you show how a specific death scene helps to illuminate the meaning of the w
- Source: AP English Lit Exam 2004 FRQ, Form B
- According to critic Northrop Frye, "Tragic heroes are so much the highest points in their human landscape that they seem the inevitable conductors of the power about them, great trees more likely to be struck by lightning than a clump of grass. Cond
- Source: AP English Lit Exam 2003 FRQ, Form A
- Novels and plays often depict characters caught between colliding cultures--national, regional, ethnic, religious, institutional. Such collisions can call a character's sense of identity into question. Select a novel or play in which a character responds
- Source: AP English Lit Exam 2003 FRQ, Form B
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Often in literature a character's success in achieving goals depends on keeping a secret and divulging it only at the right moment, if at all.
Choose a novel or play that requires a character to keep a secret. In a well-organized essay, briefl - Source: AP English Lit Exam 2002 FRQ, From B
- The eighteenth-century British novelist Laurence Sterne wrote, "No body, but he who as felt it, can conceive what a plaguing thing it is to have a man's mind torn asunder by two projects of equal strength, both obstinately pulling in a contrary dire
- Source: AP English Lit Exam 1999 FRQ
- Should Antony & Cleopatra be considered in the same category as the four great tragedies?
- Source: USAD 10.2.7
- It has been suggested that tragedies are for those who feel and comedies are for those who think. Is this true?
- Source: USAD 11.1.3
- George Meredith commented that "the true test of comedy is that it shall awaken thoughtful laughter." In this sense, is Much Ado About Nothing a comedy?
- Source: USAD 11.1.3