Crash Course AP Literature
MODIFIES: Modifies means to add meaning to, such as adjectives modifying nouns (blue dress) or adverbs modifying verbs (walked s ...
YOUR OWN RHETORICAL STRATEGIES Develop your paragraphs using a variety of rhetorical strategies. Use what seems appropriate for ...
ANTECEDENT: Antecedent means that which comes before. Pronouns have antecedents. “Laura found her hat on the top shelf.” Laura i ...
TWO TEXTS: A COMPARE/CONTRAST GUIDE There is a good chance that you will be asked to write an essay comparing the elements of tw ...
Chapter 9 Mastering Difficult Vocabulary “Too many students do not possess the vocabulary and do not understand the various nuan ...
COMPARE/CONTRAST: TRANSITIONAL WORDS AND PHRASES: ...
In This Chapter Overview Vocabulary List My Own Vocabulary List ...
To compare In the same way Likewise Similarly Also Like ...
OVERVIEW The following words were chosen from AP Lit released exams because they are generally difficult, may be archaic in mean ...
To contrast Conversely However Rather On the contrary On the other hand ...
VOCABULARY LIST 1. adamantine (adj): (from the noun adamant, which is a hard, crystallized carbon) firm in attitude or opinion, ...
THE INTRODUCTION Mention both texts and be sure that your thesis suggests the main ways the two texts are similar. Do not say “J ...
naivete (noun)/naïve (adj): innocence, inexperience nascent (adj): emerging, newly born or created ordain (verb): to appoint to ...
THE BODY Here are three popular methods you can use to organize the body of the essay: 1. With the “Whole to Whole” method you d ...
MY OWN VOCABULARY LIST In Chapter 10, Engaged and Active Reading, you are encouraged to annotate texts as you read and circle wo ...
ETTHOS AND LOGOS: “TOOLS” TWO IMPORTANT ARGUMENT “TOOLS” Aristotle defined qualities of argument centuries ago. Two terms of con ...
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SAMPLE ESSAY The following prompt was on the 1994 AP Lit exam. Read the following passage, from “A White Heron” by Sarah Orne Je ...
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While the initial observations of Sylvia’s character come through third person omniscient point of view, an interesting shift^8 ...
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