If there’s one thing you need to know to earn a high score on the AP English Literature Exam, it’s literary term analysis. This is because literary term analysis is part of all sections of the Exam—especially the Free Response Essays.
If there’s one thing you need to know to earn a high score on the AP English Literature Exam, it’s literary term analysis. This is because literary term analysis is part of all sections of the Exam—especially the Free Response Essays.
This course features the Four-Step Framework, a concrete, four-step process that—when used—gets students a 4 or 5 on the AP Exam. Taught by a former AP English teacher who attended Wesleyan University, the University of Chicago and Oxford University, this course features literary terms commonly seen on the AP Exam and shows how to stop writing plot summary and how to start writing high-quality analysis.
In addition to the short, high-impact lectures, this course includes:
Comprehensive supplemental resources for the literary time periods most used in the AP Exam (downloadable in the Lecture 1 "Resources" folder)
Strategies on how to read poems resourcefully so you can answer poetry-related questions and essay prompts easily
Two Reading Roadmaps for the top novels used on the Free Response Open-Ended Essay (downloadable in the Lecture 1 "Resources" folder)
A complete list of 100+ literary terms, along with their definitions (downloadable in the Lecture 1 "Resources" folder)
In-depth literary analysis examples for the most commonly used literary terms in the AP Exam
After this lecture, you will:
Know what literary term analysis is
Understand why literary term analysis is central to the AP English Literature exam
See how literary term analysis is connected to the multiple choice section of the exam
See how literary term analysis is connected to the free-response essay section of the exam
See how literary term analysis is connected to the rubric AP graders use to score your exam
NOTE: Supplemental materials, such as the two Reading Roadmaps and time period handouts, are downloadable in this lecture under the "Resources" folder
After this lecture, you will:
Have a clear framework to use when analyzing any work of fiction, drama or poetry to help you write high-scoring literary term analysis from the ground up
See a complete example of literary term analysis using the four-step framework
After this lecture, you will:
Know the strategies to easily identify a literary term in the context of a novel, play or poem
Learn what literary term can be used for analysis on any of the AP essay prompts
Learn why writing notes, or a "gloss," about a literary term in the book itself is key for doing well on the AP exam
After this lecture, you will:
Understand how to prioritize the best literary term when you have multiple to choose from using a real-life Renaissance poetry example
After this lecture, you will:
Have a concrete way to go beyond providing dictionary definitions for literary terms and have what you need to write a successful first sentence of literary term analysis
After this lecture, you will:
Have guiding questions to help you go beyond plot summary so you can write high-quality literary term analysis for any novel, play or poem
After this lecture, you will:
Have guiding questions to help you go beyond plot summary so you can write high-quality literary term analysis especially for a play or poem
After this lecture, you will:
Understand how to turn answers from the guiding questions into literary analysis using a real-life Renaissance poetry example
After this lecture, you will:
Know how to take your analysis to the next level to fully answer AP free-response prompts by connecting your analysis to the text as a whole
After this lecture, you will:
Understand how to connect your literary term analysis to the text as a whole using a real-life Renaissance poetry example
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