Aligns to Common Core State Standards

Your students are introduced to key literary concepts using excerpts from eight popular novels that your students may or may not have read this year. Students will use the activities in this book to focus on these concepts and gain a better understanding of their uses in literature.  Once students learn how to identify the concepts, they will see them everywhere! 

• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne – Symbolism, Archetypes
• Moby-Dick by Herman Melville – Characters as Foils
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte – Central Theme
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse – Irony, Characterization
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley – Point of View
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte – Central Theme
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald – Imagery
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain – Realism, Vernacular, Moral Dilemma 

Includes answer key.

©2014, English. High school. Reproducible. 146 pages.

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