Crash Course AP Literature

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, published 1949 Main characters: Willy Loman, Linda (his wife), Biff and Happy (his two son ...

In This Chapter Improving Reading Habits More Strategies for Improving Your Reading Annotating a Text Suggested Symbols for Anno ...

Dream, but wage slavery and the oppression of capitalism turn their lives into tragedy. Tags: corruption, traditional values, sy ...

IMPROVING READING HABITS In the multiple-choice section of the AP Lit exam, you will have 60 minutes to carefully read five to s ...

Beloved by Toni Morrison, published 1987 Genre: novel (historical fiction) Setting: 1873, with flashbacks to the early 1850s, Ci ...

MORE STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVING YOUR READING Make a conscious effort to understand what you’re doing as you read. As soon as your ...

Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton, published 1948 Main Plot/Idea/Concept: Stephen Kumalo struggles against white oppression ...

ANNOTATING A TEXT ...

Tags: social oppression, marriage Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen, published 1890 Genre: play Setting: Norway, 19th century Main ch ...

WHY ANNOTATE When you read a difficult text, you’re not usually reading for pleasure. You want to understand the text and you wa ...

Tags: dignity and honor, racism, gender roles, cultural assimilation Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard, publ ...

HOW TO ANNOTATE Earlier in this book, you were given a list of key literary elements to know so you would recognize them in pros ...

who has a destructive series of love affairs with other men. Tags: Lost Generation, disillusionment The Tempest by William Shake ...

PRACTICE ANNOTATING Start practicing your annotating skills now, so you can train yourself. At first, practicing this skill may ...

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy, published 1992 (first book of The Border Trilogy; received National Book Award) Main c ...

SUGGESTED SYMBOLS FOR ANNOTATING Whether you use the suggested symbols below or create your own, it is important to keep it simp ...

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, serialized October 1, 1856, and December 15, 1856, tried for obscenity which made it notoriou ...

SAMPLE ANNOTATED TEXTS The prose passage below is from Willa Cather’s novel My Antonia. The poem is John Donne’s The Broken Hear ...

lender, Shylock. The condition of the loan, if it is not repaid, is that Shylock may take a pound of flesh from Antonio. Tags: a ...

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