AP English Literature and Composition

Character types, characterization methods, setting as context, and the relationship between character and environment

First-person, third-person limited and omniscient, unreliable narrator, and narrative distance

Stanza, meter, rhyme scheme, sonnets, free verse, enjambment, and caesura

Simile, metaphor, personification, symbolism, imagery, and sensory language

Plot structure, types of conflict, theme vs subject, motif, and how authors develop thematic ideas

Dialogue, monologue, soliloquy, staging, tragedy, comedy, and dramatic irony

Shifting perspectives, frame narratives, multiple narrators, and narrative reliability

Symbolism in prose, recurring motifs, textual ambiguity, and interpretive complexity

Diction, tone, mood, speaker vs poet, shifts, and irony types

Alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, syntax, and the effects of sound on meaning

Multiple perspectives, ambiguity, subtext, allegory, and literary movements

How authors use fiction and drama to critique society, explore power dynamics, and address injustice

Analyzing an author's style choices: syntax, diction, pacing, sentence variety, and their cumulative effects

Synthesizing multiple poetic elements, comparing poems, and developing sophisticated interpretations

Poetry analysis, prose analysis, and literary argument essays: thesis, evidence, commentary, and structure

Formalism, feminist criticism, Marxist criticism, postcolonial criticism, and reader-response theory