AP English Literature and Composition, one topic at a time

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1. Unit 1

   Short Fiction I

   Characterization: What Details Reveal · Character Perspective · Setting: Time and Place · Plot and Dramatic Situation · Exposition and the Sequence of Events · Narrators and Speakers · Point of View · Claim and Evidence Paragraphs

2. Unit 2

   Poetry I

   Perspective in Poems · Lines, Stanzas, and Structure · Contrasts and Shifts · Antecedents, Repetition, and Alliteration · Simile · Metaphor · Claim and Evidence in Poetry Analysis

3. Unit 3

   Longer Fiction or Drama I

   Character Expectations and Motives · Dynamic and Static Characters · Social, Cultural, and Historical Setting · Significant Events · Conflict · Literary Thesis Statements · Line of Reasoning and Commentary · Relevant and Sufficient Evidence · Grammar and Mechanics for Clarity

4. Unit 4

   Short Fiction II

   Character Choices and Significance · Protagonists, Antagonists, and Contrasting Characters · Character Relationships and Conflict · Setting, Mood, and Atmosphere · Characters and Their Environment · Common Dramatic Situations and Contrasts · Narrative Distance and Stream of Consciousness · Diction and the Narrator’s Attitude · Body Paragraphs and Coherence

5. Unit 5

   Poetry II

   Closed and Open Forms · Literal and Figurative Meaning · Descriptive Words, Hyperbole, and Understatement · Images and Imagery · Extended Metaphor · Personification · Allusion · Transitions in a Poetry Essay

6. Unit 6

   Longer Fiction or Drama II

   Multiple Perspectives and Foils · Inconsistency and Competing Values in Characters · Nonlinear Narrative Structure · Contrasts as Contradictions · Tone, Syntax, and the Narrator’s Perspective · Narrator Bias and Reliability · Symbols · Sentences, Word Choice, and Punctuation in Arguments

7. Unit 7

   Short Fiction III

   Character Change and Epiphany · Groups, Forces, and Relationships · Changing and Contrasting Settings · How Characters Interact with Setting · Pacing · What a Narrator Can and Cannot Tell · Symbolic Settings and Motifs · Similes and Personification Revisited · Sophisticated Arguments and Revising Interpretations

8. Unit 8

   Poetry III

   Lines, Punctuation, and Broken Patterns · Juxtaposition, Irony, and Paradox · Ambiguity · Symbols in Poetry · Conceits and Multiple Comparisons · Allusion and Shared Knowledge · Significance and Attribution in Literary Arguments

9. Unit 9

   Longer Fiction or Drama III

   Minor Characters and Interpreting Change · Responses to the Resolution · Significant Events, Competing Values, and Climax · Resolutions, Unseen Elements, and Unresolved Endings · Multiple and Changing Perspectives · The Complete Literary Argument

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