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AP English Literature and Composition
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Free AP English Literature and Composition study notes for AP (Advanced Placement) students. Each chapter below covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take into the thinka app.
Short Fiction (Units 1, 4, 7)
Character: details, perspective and motive
Contrasting characters and character relationships
Setting and the values it conveys
Plot order, sequence and contrast
Narrator, point of view and reliability
Word choice, imagery and symbol in fiction
Poetry (Units 2, 5, 8)
Speaker and poetic perspective
Structure and contrast in a poem
Diction: specific words and phrases
Comparison: simile, metaphor, personification, allusion
Imagery, symbol and extended metaphor
Ambiguity, juxtaposition, irony and paradox
Longer Fiction or Drama (Units 3, 6, 9)
Character change and complexity across a long work
Significant events and conflict
Setting and the world of the work
Structure and contrast across a long work
Narrator reliability and shifting perspective
Interpreting the work as a whole
Literary Argumentation
Claims that require defense
Defensible thesis statements
Building a line of reasoning
Commentary: linking evidence to the thesis
Selecting relevant and sufficient evidence
Control over the elements of composition
Exam Tasks
Section I: multiple-choice passage sets
FRQ 1: Poetry Analysis
FRQ 2: Prose Fiction Analysis
FRQ 3: Literary Argument
Sophistication and complex argument
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