FINISH TWAIN SATIRE (Monday) and MAKE A LIST (Tuesday)!

Many of you have already finished the two Twain satire pieces. If you haven’t, don’t panic–it’s not due until midnight tonight. You have time.

On Tuesday I’ll assign another AP Prompt Essay, this one not as annoying to read as the Hawthorne piece. In fact, I rather enjoy this one and plan to read the book that it comes from this summer.

But before we get to that, I found another excellent bit of advice from an AP Lit teacher/reader, and we’re going to do this assignment for tomorrow.

HOMEWORK:

“In years past, the prompt would occasionally give you a list of three literary elements to consider. Now, it’s standard that the prompt will say, ‘how the author uses various literary techniques to…’ It won’t tell you which ones to look for, you have to determine which ones are important on your own. I have [actually the AP Lit teacher/reader whom I stole this from] compiled a list below of common literary techniques found in prose prompts.

You should recognize these terms below that the AP Reader compiled–you were quizzed on most of them, and we’ve discussed them in class. (Sadly, we didn’t get to discuss all of these to the extent I was planning to by now, but this is what we’re stuck with.)

For Tuesday, I want you to create a “cheat sheet”. We’ve been told that for the AP Exam on May 13th you can use notes. This list below will be the best notes you can have!

Yes, you could just copy the lit terms from the booklet you all helped compile, but if you write definitions yourself, and examples yourself, you will remember and internalize these terms FAR better. Then, when you take the exam, you can have this sheet next to you so you can quickly remember which literary device is which, and identify which one(s) seem to be appearing in the passage you read.

Your assignment is to create a Google doc where you explain what each of these terms mean IN YOUR OWN WORDS. You can provide examples if you want. These don’t need to be more than a line or two.

1. characterization
2. tone
3. selection of detail
4. dialogue
5. point of view
6. narrative pace
7. conflict
8. setting
9. diction
10. imagery
11. symbolism
12. irony
13. paradox
14. juxtaposition
15. syntax

This is due TUESDAY before midnight. Share with me on a Google Doc.