Part A- Sight Passage:

- 10 MCQs
- Don't have any type of essay
- Tone (formal/informal)
- The attitude the author takes on the subject
- No literary or sound devices
- No pathos, ethos, or logos
Part B- Poetry Analysis
- 15-20 lines of a poem
- 5 short answers
Part C- Kite Runner Symbols
- 5 symbols (3 marks each)
- Short answers
- Characterization
- Theme
- (PACTS- Atmosphere, Conflict, Setting, Plot)
Part D: Macbeth Passage Analysis (20 Thinking)
- Suggested Time: 20 minutes
- PAACT analysis
- One Literary device
- How the passage relates to the idea of a tragic hero
Part E- Creative writing: Life of Pi
Persuasive, Narrative (use details, anecdotes-evidence)
Possible Themes:
1. Faith/Religion vs Reason/Atheism
 - Pi is religion: Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, meaning-order to his life (YES-God
exists)
- Reason/Athiesm-dad, Mr.Kumar the atheist
- Agnosticism- Haven't made a commitment, “leap of faith”- commit
- Faith gave him hope to live while reason gave him the tools to survive
- Both go hand in hand
2. Search for Meaning - Objective, Subjective, Both
- Part 1: Meaning- India, childhood
- Part 2: Meaning/Purpose-Survival Story
- Part 3: Current, grown-up Pi, now living in Toronto
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3. The Importance of Storytelling + Reality vs Illusion/Imagination, Truth vs Myth
- Part of human nature
- Give us hope, meaning, inspiration
- Fiction vs Fact
- Part 1: What do stories give him meaning
- Part 2: his won survival story
- Part 3: Conclusion
4. Syncretism- Persuasive tone
- Religious syncretism- Pi combines all 3 and becomes a believer, how is this
possible? How will Pi demonstrate this to the audience?
- Challenges he had of believing and practicing all 3
- Message to teens and audience
5. Survival
6. Confinement vs Freedom
- Rules, order, like a “zoo”- isn't a bad thing
- Religion- this is a good thing, “do whenever, whatever” is bad since it leads to
animalistic behavior
Rhetorical Devices:
Polysyndeton: using a lot of conjunction and rapid succession
Asyndeton: Do not use any conjunctions
Periodic: main idea or conclusion comes at the end
Reversal/Chiasmus: repeats words/phrases in a different order
Interrupted movement: uses dashes to show an interruption in thought
Climactic: words are placed in an order to suggest something increasing
Anaphora: repetition, repeating the same phrase at the start

Fragment: incomplete sentence

Inverted: subject comes after the verb
Tricolon: comes in a series of threes

Poetry Terms:
1. Verse- a single line of poetry
2. Stanza- a group of verses forming a section
3. Free verse- does not have a specific rhyme or rhythm
4. Lyric- Fairly short, express an emotion, often 1st person
5. Persona- the speaker
6. Tone- an attitude of the poet
Poetry Analysis:
1. Poet, Time Period- historical context, might be personal about the author
2. Subject and Audience- what is it about? To whom is it written?
3. Purpose- Why the author is writing this
4. Theme- main idea/lesson
5. Persona- identity or the way poet presents themselves
6. Tone- an attitude of the poet
7. Identify Sound Devices (alliteration, rhyme, repetition, etc). / Structure
8. Identify Literary Devices?
9. Imagery? Visual, Auditory, Touch, Gustatory, Smell
Literary Devices:
1. Allusion: a reference to another story or historical event.
2. Foil: a character who contrasts with the protagonist.
3. Foreshadowing: a hint or indication of what will happen in the future.
4. Irony: verbal irony is when someone says the opposite of what they mean (sarcasm).
Situational irony is when you expect one thing, but the opposite occurs. Dramatic irony
is when the reader knows more than the characters.
5. Hyperbole: a Greek word that means “excess”, or too much. In literature, it means an
extreme exaggeration.
6. Imagery: descriptive language directed towards one or more of your five senses (sight,
hearing, smell, taste, touch).
7. Metaphor: a direct comparison, or saying one thing IS something else.
8. Simile: like a metaphor, but using “like” or “as” to compare two things.
9. Assonance: similar vowel sounds used in close proximity.
10. Symbol: When an object, creature, person, action or situation comes to represent an
abstract idea or concept.
11. Oxymoron: a figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an
effect.
 12. Paradox: a contradiction or illogical idea that contains some kind of truth.
13. Personification: attributing or giving human characteristics to an object, animal or idea.
14. Alletrition: when the same letter or sound is used at the beginning of several words in a
row.
15. Flashback: a jump back into the past to give an explanation of something the reader
needs to know in order to understand the story.
16. Pathetic Fallacy: when nature reflects or sympathizes with the emotions of the
characters
17. Pathos: emotion
18. Ethos: your own credibility
19. Logos: facts, logic
PART C: The Kite Runner – SYMBOLISM
Khaled Hosseini, like other authors, uses imagery and symbols (motifs) to convey
meanings connected to the text. Below is a list of some of the symbols present in the
novel:
⮚ Orphanages:
Characterization: Sohrab (Hassan’s Son) becomes an orphan, Baba- built an orphanage in
Afghanistan
Theme: Baba’s guilt, redemption, innocence/loss of innocence
PACTS: In the beginning chapters, baba decides to build an orphanage that he funds for himself.
Later, in the book, we learn that after Hassan's death, Sohrab was sent to an orphanage where
he was taken advantage of. Amir goes to the orphanage and saves Sohrab showing a sign of
redemption and him seeking forgiveness for his old sins and the quilt he feels.
⮚ Cleft (Scarred) Lip:
Characterization: Hassan’s cleft lip is the feature that Amir refers to most in describing him.
Theme: It acts as a mark of Hassan’s status in society; signifying poverty/class division.
PACTS: When Hassan was first born, his mother saw the cleft lip and started taunting him, five
days later she left. Later on, we see that baba hires a plastic surgeon to fix Hassan's cleft lip, this
can be seen as an act of redemption. Hassan's cleft lip shows that theme of status in poverty.
Hassan was a Hazara and his family didn't have enough money to fix it as a kid, this was one
other thing that separated him from Amir.
⮚ Kites: The kite serves as a symbol of Amir’s happiness as well as his guilt. Flying
kites is what he enjoys most as a child and it is the only way he fully connects with
Baba.
⮚ Kite Fighting
Characterization: Cultural part of Afghanistan, Hassan and Amir used to fly kites as kids, at the
ending, amir can be seen flying kites with Hassan’s son Sohrab, story comes in a full circle and
shows Amir’s redemption
Theme: guilt, redemption, betrayal,
PACTS:
- Amir participates in kite fighting to impress baba
- During this tournament, hassan showed loyalty and sacrifice himself inform of assef to
get amirs kite
- In return amir did nothing but ran like a coward
- This brought a huge starin in their freinsip and caused amir to drive hassan away from
him
- This inceident kept on haunting Amir and he faced a lot of guilt
- Amir redeemed himself but rescuing Hassan’s son Sohrab and adopting him
- At the end, Amir can be seen running a kite for Sohran and shows the loyalty and
frindship coming in a full circulr between these childhood friends
Characterization: The kites acted in a way that allowed Hassan to win baba’s pride. It also
played a big role in Hassan getting sexually abused as Hassan ran to get the blue kite for Hassan
and when Asseef asked for it, Hassan refused. At the end of the novel when Amir decides to fly
a kite with Sohrab, it was the first time in months that Sohrab smiled
Theme: friendship, loyalty, redemption
PACT:
- Amir won the kite competition and made Baba proud (Plot)
- Whenever baba would buy Amir an expensive he would do the same for Hassan (Theme
of jealousy)
- Represt simpler times when Amir was a kid and would fly kited with his best friend
before he was consumed with guilt (Theme of friendship)(Plot)
- Hassan refused to give the kite he ran for Amir to Aseef and got sexually abused
(Loyalty)
- Amir decided to run the kite for sohrab at the end of the novel (Redemption)
⮚ Lamb: In Islam, as in Christianity, the lamb signifies the sacrifice of an innocent.
Characterization: Amir describes both Hassan and Sohrab as looking like “lambs waiting to be
slaughtered.”
Theme: loss of innocence
PACTS:
- The first time Amir referred to Hassan was when he was getting sexually abused by
Aseef, it showed how Hassan's face represented an innocent lamb being slaughtered
(Innocence)
- Amir feels guilty for not protecting Hassan(guilt)
- Used as a religious symbol in Islam as a sacrifice, and thats what Hassan always did for
Amir
⮚ Pomegranate Tree: Symbolizes the friendship between Amir and Hassan. It
represents the spirit of Afghanistan, representing both unification and division.
Characterization: Hassan and Amir carved their names on the Pomegranate tree, Amir took his
frustration out on Hassan and hit him with pomegranates.
Theme: Friendship, guilt
PACCT:
- Hassan and Amir carved their names on the Pomegranate tree(theme of friendship)
- They would sit under that tree reading(innocence)
- Amir felt guilty and annoyed by Hassan’s loyalty and decided to hit him with
pomegranates to provoke a reaction out of him but Hassan never hit him back (quilt and
loyalty)

⮚ Slingshot: The slingshot represents loyalty in the hands of those who use it to
defend the innocent from injustice.
Characterization: Hassan defended Amir from Aseef by hitting him with a slingshot, and Sohrab
did the same for Amir when Aseef was hitting him
Themes: Loyalty
PACTS:
- Represent two generations of loyal people (Plot)
- Hassan and Amir would play with a slingshot as kids and whenever Amir forced Hassan
to aim it at the neighbor's dog, they would get in trouble but Hassna never ratted Amir
out and took the blame (Theme of innocence and loyalty)
- Both Hassan and Sohrab use a slingshot to stop Assef, although Hassan only has to
threaten to use his, and Sohrab actually inflict pain (Loyalty)
⮚ The Alley – “I’ve been peaking into that deserted alley for the last 26 years.
Characterization: Amir saw Hassan getting raped in the alley and took no action
Theme: Betrayal, Guilt
PACTS:
- Amir saw Hassan get raped and decided to take no action and this quilt has always stuck
with ruining the bond between both friends
⮚ Dreams-
Characterization: Hassan dreams of himelf and amir at Ghargha Lake, but there’s a monster in
the lake. Amir dreams of Baba fighting a bear.
Themes: Relization
PACCTS:
- Hassan's dream provides comfort for Amir before the kite fight, but is also a warning
that there is danger lurking under the surface. After Assef attacks Hassan, Amir realizes
that he is the one who is hurting Hassan the most
Part D- Macbeth:
Tragic Hero: Macbeth is born to nobility, and he has good character. But his fatal flaw, his
ambition, leads to his death at the end of the play. It also pushes him to commit many
atrocities, including murder, as he falls deeper and deeper into darkness.

Act 1
MACBETH
Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more:
By Sinel’s death I know I am thane of Glamis;
But how of Cawdor? the thane of Cawdor lives,
A prosperous gentleman; and to be king
Stands not within the prospect of belief,
No more than to be Cawdor. Say from whence
You owe this strange intelligence? or why
Upon this blasted heath you stop our way
With such prophetic greeting? Speak, I charge you. (1.3. 70-80).

LADY MACBETH
Give him tending;
He brings great news.
Exit Messenger
The raven himself is hoarse
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
Under my battlements. Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood;
Stop up the access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
The effect and it! Come to my woman’s breasts,
And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers,
Wherever in your sightless substances
You wait on nature’s mischief! Come, thick night,
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,
That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,
Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,
To cry ‘Hold, hold’

ANALYSIS:
- Macbeth just got the news from the 3 witches that he will become the Thane of Cawdor
and later the king (PLOT)
- Lady macbeth heard this news and wants all her feminine featheues and gone along
with the feeling of experincing remorse (PLOT)
- This scene shows the evil nature of Lady Macbeth and how far she can go to gain power
(CHARACTERS)
- Its a very tense and power hungry atmosphere
- Literary Devices: Personification (The raven himself is hoarse)
How is Macbeth a tragic hero?
This scence shows how the witches trapped macbeth into greed and showed him all the power
he could have. If the witches never appeared infront of Macbeth and shows him the future,
Macbeth wouldnt have gone through the path of evil. This shows how wrong circumstances
along with decision ruined Macbeth’s life.

Act 2
MACBETH
I’ll go no more:
I am afraid to think what I have done;
Look on’t again I dare not.
LADY MACBETH
Infirm of purpose!
Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead
Are but as pictures: ‘tis the eye of childhood
That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed,
I’ll gild the faces of the grooms withal;
For it must seem their guilt.
Exit. Knocking within
MACBETH
Whence is that knocking?
How is’t with me, when every noise appals me?
What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes.
Will all great Neptun’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas in incarnadine,
Making the green one red. (2.1.68-81)

ANALYSIS:
- Macbeth feels guilty after killing Duncan and is afraid to do anything further
- Lady Macbteh asking him to giver her the dagger so she cab dispose it off
- Macbteh shows cowardness and hallucination
- Shows the theme of remorse by Macbeth
- Literary Device: Personification: Neptun’s ocean wash this blood

How is Macbeth a tragic hero?

When lady macbeth firts told her husband the plan he was hesitant and dint agree but due to
her peer pressure, he summoned he went along with the plan. This shows how lady macbeth
negative inf,uence also led to his downfall