Crash Course AP Literature

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, published 1813 Genre: novel Setting: Hertfordshire, England, turn of the century Main charac ...

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Main Plot/Idea/Concept: The story is narrated by the governess who fears the children in her care are being tormented by ghosts. ...

Chapter 11 Understanding Literary Analysis “... memorizing the name of a technique or being able to identify a technique is only ...

REMEMBERING MAJOR WORKS Use this sheet to review a major work you have read that you might use for question three on the AP Lit ...

In This Chapter Overview It Is Possible... Controlling Your Biases Typical Problems Generating Your Analysis CSE: A Formula to R ...

Main conflict: (think in terms of what the protagonist wants/desires and what is keeping him/her from getting it). Brief plot su ...

OVERVIEW Analysis means to take apart and examine component parts of a whole in order to gain a greater understanding of the who ...

Chapter 5 Six Elements of Style: Diction, Imagery, Tone, Syntax, Point of View, and Figurative Language ...

IT IS POSSIBLE... 1. to misread the passage 2. to be arguing the wrong thing 3. to write about nothing 4. to choose the exact wr ...

In This Chapter Overview Diction Connotation Denotation Style Some typical style descriptors Imagery Types of imagery Effects of ...

CONTROLLING YOUR BIASES One of the main impediments to improving your skills is to think that you already know everything you ne ...

Style descriptors More style and tone words ...

poem comes from the wisdom of your experience. However, the proof of your thesis must come from the text and not your experience ...

OVERVIEW Every AP Lit exam will have questions about six main elements of style. It is important to know them for the multiple-c ...

TYPICAL PROBLEMS This list of literary analysis problems comes from comments made by AP Lit readers about lower- scored essays. ...

DICTION Diction is often defined as the author’s choice of words. There are two ways to think of diction: 1) Specific effect of ...

A: I READ AND UNDERSTOOD THE TEXT. WHY DID I GET A LOW SCORE? Even if you have read the passage correctly and you’ve accurately ...

CONNOTATION In analyzing word choice, you are looking at the connotation of a specific word choice and the effect of that associ ...

etc.) them. See Chapter 15 for more help with this. Does not explain why or show how his/her claim is true. Stating a claim and ...