Crash Course AP Literature
METER Meter is the regular pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in a poem. There are generally very few questions on the ...
In This Chapter Overview About the Essays Typical Problems General Qualities of a Good Essay Elements of A Good Introduction Mor ...
TYPES OF METER Type Adjective Form Syllable pattern iamb iambic U / trochee trochaic / U anapest anapestic U U / dactyl dactylic ...
OVERVIEW You will not be required to write the most brilliant essays you’ve ever written to do well on the AP Lit exam. But you ...
MEASURES OF METER monometer One foot dimeter Two feet trimeter Three feet ...
ABOUT THE ESSAYS You will be writing three essays in two hours, which gives you approximately 40 minutes for each essay. In this ...
STANZA TYPES couplet two-line stanza tercet three-line stanza quatrain four-line stanza quintain five-line stanza sestet six-lin ...
TYPICAL PROBLEMS If you were to ask an AP reader to list some typical mistakes students make in writing their essays, he or she ...
COMMON FIXED FORM POEMS Haiku: Haiku is a traditional Japanese fixed-form poem. It is structured in three lines, with five sylla ...
GENERAL QUALITIES OF A GOOD ESSAY A relatively short essay with a defensible thesis and a few insightful claims supported with t ...
OTHER TYPES OF POEMS 1. Ballad: a short poem in song format (sometimes with refrains) that tells a story 2. Elegy: a poem, the s ...
ELEMENTS OF A GOOD INTRODUCTION The task given in the prompt must be acknowledged in your introduction. The writer’s name and th ...
TWENTY “MUST READ” POEMS There are thousands of great poems and hundreds of great poets. This list is meant only to acquaint you ...
MORE ON THESIS STATEMENTS A thesis statement is the sentence where you state your purpose or what you intend to prove in your es ...
Chapter 8 Basic Elements of Language ...
DEVELOPING THE BODY OF THE ESSAY The body of your essay is where you argue your thesis. You will need to make several points or ...
In This Chapter Overview What Is Rhetoric? Key Terms Basic Rhetorical Strategies The Verbs of Rhetoric A Question of Grammar ...
MORE ON EXPLAINING YOUR REASONING Sometimes, you will think that your ideas are clearly stated, when they’re actually only impli ...
OVERVIEW This chapter has two main purposes. The first is to fill in the gaps in terminology between fiction/drama and poetry. T ...
WRITING A CONCLUSION THAT INSPIRES: QUALITIES OF A GOOD CONCLUSION Avoid generic summary conclusions that simply restate the the ...
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