English Department – AP English Literature & Composition
Literary Terms & Concepts

Standard(s):   2.A.4a       2.A.4b       2.A.4c       2.B.4b      3.B.4a

Stage 1: Desired Results

Understandings

Students will apply their knowledge of literary devices to comprehend, analyze, and evaluate literature of various genres and cultures with greater fluency, synthesis, and organization.

(Semesters one and two)  Students will apply skills of comprehension, analysis, aevaluation, and synthesis of selected literature of various periods.

Essential Questions

Knowledge & Skill

(Semester one)  How does the use of literary devices add to a piece of literature in terms of character, style, tone, and theme?

(Semester two)  How will the knowledge of definitions and applications of literary terms affect a student's understanding of a piece of literature?

(Semester one) Continuation of study from previous AP/Honors classes with refinement of: Literary terms - tone, structure, diction, syntax, imagery, genre / Figures of speech - allusion, apostrophe, hyperbole, litotes, metaphor, personification, simile, symbol, synecdoche / Style elements - connotation, denotation, inversion, irony, mood, paradox, pun, satire, voice / Dramatic terms - antagonist, aside, catharsis, climax, comic relief, conflict, crises, denouement, deus ex machina, epilogue, exposition, falling action, farce, foil, hamartia, hubris, monologue, prologue, protagonist, rising action, soliloquy, tragedy tragic flaw, villain

(Semester two) Continued development from semester one.  In addition, poetic terms - cacaphony, caesura, conceit, consonance, controlling image, dissonance, dramatic monolgue, elegy, end-stopped line, enjambment, epic, foot, free verse, lyric, octave, persona, quatrain, refrain, repeptition, scansion, sestet, English and Italian sonnet, stress. / Form elements - allegory, anecdote, diary, frame, discourse, novella, parable, prose, verse.

Stage 2: Assessment Evidence

reading passages from both class texts and AP practices, unit tests (both objective and essay), timed writings, collaborative projects, subsearching texts, formal discussions

Student achievement on AP/Literature test in the spring. 

Performance Task Summary

Rubric Titles

   

Self-Assessments

Other Evidence, Summarized

     

 

Stage 3: Learning Activities

(See sample pacing guide for Frankenstein.)


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Last updated: January 24, 2008