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7 Lies Every English Lit Student Will Tell...

7 Lies Every English Lit Student Will Tell...
Eugene Smith
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You probably had Great Expectations for how taking English Lit would turn out, but then realised that the subject is making you read for One Hundred Years, In Solitude.

As a result of this pressure to ingest more words than food, you inevitably end up being tempted into dishonesty...

7 Lies All English Lit Students Tell
"Yeah, I read the book."(01 of06)
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No you didn't, you got to page 14, didn't like it, and spent half an hour on Amazon looking for a film adaptation. Which was in black and white, so you didn't bother. (credit:Angela Cameron via Getty Images)
"I actually write my own stuff too."(02 of06)
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You wrote a poem about rain in Year 8 and are currently stuck on page four and a half of a novel. (credit:Cevdet Gokhan Palas via Getty Images)
"I think this represents the protagonist's antidisestablishmentarianism and his supercalifragilisticexpialidocious-ness. And also how he suffers pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. And how he lives in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-ll(03 of06)
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The unwritten rule of essay-writing is that you sound cleverer if you sacrifice sensible argument in favour of using whatever words contain the most syllables - regardless of whether the words actually exist.This rule is unwritten because I just made it up. (credit:GranniesKitchen/Flickr)
"Well, I guess that's a valid interpretation of the book..."(04 of06)
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Translation: "No, that's ridiculous. The Very Hungry Caterpillar is not a post-colonial cautionary tale against the dangers of Marxism." (credit:HitToon via Getty Images)
"I totally understand all Shakespearean language."(05 of06)
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Hmm. What lie from yonder window breaks? (credit:Flannymagic via Getty Images)
"Lennie kills George."(06 of06)
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The unintentional lie that would decimate your English Lit GCSE exam. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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