Crash Course AP Literature

(subordinate) clause Grammatical sentence purposes Declarative sentence: makes a statement. Imperative sentence: makes a comman ...

WHAT IS “SO WHAT?” To write a good essay for the AP Lit exam, you must discover the thematic truth in the poem and prose text th ...

MORE ASPECTS OF SYNTAX 1. Climax: the main idea or most important point in a sentence. The position of the climax may be varied ...

SO WHAT? A VISUAL GUIDE^1 ...

The 3 P’s of Syntax Prominence: Prominence refers to the importance given an idea in a sentence. Prominence is achieved both by ...

COMMON LITERARY THEMES ...

POINT OF VIEW Point of view is one of the most important elements of literature that you need to understand for the AP Lit exam. ...

THEMATIC STATEMENTS: All life is connected. Each life, no matter how small, matters. Life is too brief. Youth (innocence) and be ...

MAIN POINTS OF VIEW First person: the narrator tells his/her own story using first person pronouns (I, me, we, us). This point o ...

THEMATIC QUESTIONS: What is truth? What is beauty? What is real? What is justice? What is honor? What is love? What does it mean ...

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE The last element of style is figurative language, or language not meant to be taken literally. If we were to ...

Chapter 13 Point of View: From Whose Perspective? “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point ...

HOW TO RECOGNIZE FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE Learn the patterns of types of figurative language so that when you encounter them, you rec ...

In This Chapter Overview Your Own Point of View Consciously and Purposefully Add to What You Know of Life Become an Empathetic R ...

SPECIFIC TYPES OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE (See also Chapters 6 and 7.) Allegory: a type of symbolism. An allegory is a description o ...

OVERVIEW There are two main ways to consider point of view: the point of view in the passage that you are to identify and your o ...

Being able to recognize irony and its effect is an excellent skill to cultivate. There are always several questions on the AP Li ...

YOUR OWN POINT OF VIEW An inherent disadvantage to youth is that it comes with a limited world view. Most high school students h ...

Symbol: a thing, person, or idea that stands for something else. Some symbols become iconic, that is, so well known that they’re ...

CONSCIOUSLY AND PURPOSEFULLY ADD TO WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT LIFE One of the best ways to understand literature and its themes is to ...