Crash Course AP Literature

A MATTER OF TIME You may have heard the saying, “What’s worth doing, is worth doing well.” This is also true for your preparatio ...

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

SUGGESTED STRATEGIES FOR USING THIS BOOK 1. Read the entire book, noting which topics or chapters will require the most study ti ...

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. ...

MORE TIPS Penmanship counts: not everyone has good penmanship, but in preparation for the exam, you should do as much as you can ...

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

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

PART II: ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE AND MORE ...

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

Chapter 3 Summary of Literary Periods, Concepts, and Authors ...

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

In This Chapter Overview A Few Major Concepts or “Isms” Literary Timeline Featured Authors on Released Exams ...

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

OVERVIEW Literature might be thought of as the creative measure of history. Great writers, poets, and playwrights mold their sen ...

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

A FEW MAJOR CONCEPTS OR “ISMS” The following list is given in chronological order. Romanticism (mid-19th century) Valued feeling ...

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

aimless and without foundation Many of the lost were disillusioned by traditional American values and became expatriots, who cho ...

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