AP LIT MIDTERM 2024

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Across
  1. 1. painted The Starry Night
  2. 3. according to Judith Butler, gender is not what one is but what one…
  3. 4. symbol of freedom, death/rebirth, voyage, protection, isolation throughout literature
  4. 6. the color of the central symbol in “Rappaccini’s Daughter”
  5. 7. Roman god who sees simultaneously forwards and backwards
  6. 9. the shaping of a text’s meaning by another text
  7. 14. this type of humor is present in Kafka’s writing
  8. 15. major symbol in The Birth of Venus
  9. 18. verb meaning to arise, originate, wake up, rouse from sleep, become aware of something
  10. 19. Ancient Greek lyric poet on island of Lesbos
  11. 20. love interest in “Rappaccini’s Daughter” named after Dante’s spiritual muse
  12. 24. introduced the notion of intertextuality
  13. 25. painted American Gothic
  14. 26. sculpted The Thinker
  15. 28. character that changes and is protean
  16. 30. a short, musical flourish for brass and percussion
  17. 33. story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities
  18. 34. the goddess of the underworld, also represented in the brooch worn by the woman in American Gothic
  19. 35. the hero returns to the ordinary world at the end of their journey with the
  20. 36. person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself and that also stands for something more than itself
Down
  1. 1. Edna’s departure into the water is seen as a reversal of the creation story of ___ coming to the shore
  2. 2. a figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration or overstatement
  3. 5. according to Freud, this part of our psyche mediates between the ID and EGO
  4. 6. Nighthawks was completed weeks after this famous historical event in American history
  5. 8. character or object that signifies something is about to change for hero
  6. 10. painting that depicts a quiet NYC restaurant at night
  7. 11. experience of being isolated from group/activity you once belonged to
  8. 12. “Fair is foul, and foul is fair” is an example of
  9. 13. a symbol like the scarlet letter is said to be many meaning, or…
  10. 16. character who assists the hero by offering advice, assistance, or gifts
  11. 17. number that becomes important to our interpretation of Kafka’s book
  12. 21. ___ OF CONSCIOUSNESS; style of writing that portrays the inner (often chaotic) workings of a character’s mind
  13. 22. mythological river whose waters caused forgetfulness
  14. 23. a ballroom, folk dance
  15. 27. used to describe unnecessarily complicated and frustrating experiences that may turn absurd
  16. 29. inexpensive paintings by self-taught Mexican artists that depict personal thanks to saints
  17. 31. famous lyre player whose wife died
  18. 32. literary time period from 1900s-1940s that rebelled against expectations