Crash Course AP Literature

STYLE DESCRIPTORS The descriptors in the following lists come from questions about tone, style, attitude, and mood from released ...

BECOME AN EMPATHETIC READER Empathy is the ability to put ourselves in someone else’s place, to see things as he or she sees the ...

Tone candid cynical detached laconic melancholy nostalgic sanctimonious sardonic sinister speculative trite ...

THE IMPORTANCE OF IRONY AND TONE Many AP readers say that students have difficulty recognizing irony in passages on the exam. Qu ...

Style candid cynical detached sardonic scornful sinister smug ...

TONE Tone is the writer’s attitude toward the writing itself; toward the subject; toward the people, places, time and events in ...

Attitude arrogant ambivalent anxious contemptuous eloquent disdainful fanciful flippant indifferent pretentious remorseful satir ...

REVIEWING MAIN POINTS OF VIEW First person: the narrator tells his/her own story using first person pronouns. This point of view ...

Mood apprehensive elegiac quizzical rapturous reproachful satiric solemn suspenseful ...

SHIFTS IN POINT OF VIEW A shift in point of view is something to pay close attention to. It is often a critical marker in unders ...

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Style accusatory acerbic ambivalent apathetic bitter conciliatory condescending callous contemplative critical choleric churlish ...

Literary present tense Characters in a novel live in the present time in the novel. To write about them, we use what is called t ...

Tone caustic colloquial didactic effusive erudite fanciful formal forthright matter-of-fact informal intimate lyrical objective ...

Authoritative third person A literary analysis essay like the ones you write for the AP Lit exam are best written in third perso ...

Chapter 6 Basic Elements of Fiction and Drama On the AP Lit exam it won’t be enough for you to simply identify literary elements ...

Universal first person In general we use third person in literary analysis essays. However, there are times when first person se ...

In This Chapter Overview Key Terms Basic Elements of Classical Tragedy Ten Common Novel Types ...

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