Ms. Bridges' AP English

Prompt: Read the prompt carefully. The write a well-developed essay in which you analyze HOW Eliot PORTRAYS these two characters and their COMPLEX RELATIONSHIP as HUSBAND and WIFE. You may wish to consider such literary devices as NARRATIVE PERSPECTIVE and SELECTION of DETAIL. 1. Find at least three quotations from the prompt which show character. It can be: Diction: “odious tradesmen” (line 68) Dialogue which reveals attitude: “Your friends would not wish us to be without money, and certainly these odious tradesmen might be made to understand that…” (lines 67 – 68) “You can send the men away….” (line 56) “Shall we go without spoons and forks then?” (line 84) “I insist upon it that your father shall not know unless I choose to tell him,” added Lydgate with a more peremptory emphasis. (lines 10 – 13) “It is I who have been at fault….you are so clever that you turn your mind to managing you will school me into carefulness. I have been a thoughtless rasca...

How to Approach the A.P. prompt for MIDDLEMARCH How does Eliot portray characters? How does she portray complex relationship between husband and wife? Literary devices: Narrative perspective (Pov) and selection of detail. Middlemarch: underline novels!!!!! Rosamond’s personality: She was not given to weeping and disliked it. Lines 14 – 16: Rosamond thinks….. Go through the entire prompt and find examples of pov (narrative perspective) of Rosamond. Find at least three examples. Lines 77 – 79: “The thought in her mind was if she had known what he was going to be like she would never have married him.” Lines 87 - 90: “She was determined to make no further resistance or utterance.” Lines 23 – 26: This sudden trial was to a creature who had known nothing but indulgence. 52 – 53: His self blame gave her some hope that he would attend to her opinion. Tertius: Lines 48 – 50: Lydgate was bowing his neck like a creature……” Lines 34 – 35: That she had ...

AP ESSAY FORMAT You must address the prompt in its entirety. If the prompt asks for analysis of imagery, metaphor, tone and irony in the author’s development of the theme and you only address three of the devices but ignore the fourth, the reader of your paper will count off for that. It has been suggested that you try to answer the entire prompt in the first paragraph as a safe guard against running out of time. The format for the A.P. essay can vary; however, if you are exhausted or not excited about the prompt, or for whatever reason you are not feeling inspired, then you can fall back on an essay structure that will get you through and quite possibly with a passing grade. ALWAYS ADDRESS THE PROMPT. The format is as follows: Mini-topic sentence: Example: In Elsinore, the view of women is as dark and cold as the weather (“Tis bitter cold.”) as evidenced by the scolding tone of Polonius towards his daughter, Ophelia, and Hamlet’s brutal argument with his “a...

HAMLET Essay To be given after the Third Act: Your assignment is to choose a theme from Hamlet, and write an essay using the rhetorical devices and/or literary devices employed by Shakespeare to explore and develop the theme. Some possible examples of themes you might want to address would be: the theme of spying; the role of women in the play HAMLET; the theme of revenge; the theme of fortune; the theme of young versus old; the theme of the ubermensch; the theme of existential despair; and any other possible theme you might want to address. This assignment will be due at the end of class. You may use the book and your notes to write this essay.

September 15, 2010 The prompt is a question one must answer regarding the literary excerpt one is analyzing. A.P. stands for "answer the prompt"!!!!!! Read the title!!!!! Prompt for THE HANDMAID’S TALE: Analyze how Margaret Atwood uses figurative language to show the theme of dominance and powerlessness in the excerpt from THE HANDMAID’S TALE. Figurative language: Metaphor Simile Imagery Personification Tone Symbolism Create a grid or a “t-graph” for dominance and powerlessness. Structure: First paragraph: (Intro) Suggestion: Use an excerpt from the piece that you are analyzing in the first paragraph. You must include in the first paragraph: The topic sentence. You must include the name of the author and the title of the book. You must include the prompt in the first paragraph. Through the use of such figurative language as metaphor, symbolism, imagery and tone Margaret Atwood establishes the theme of control and dominance in THE HANDMAID’S TALE. O...

MARY BARTON By Elizabeth Gaskells Set in the mid 19th Century town of Manchester, England. The excerpt follows the lives of the working class. The servants are not slaves. The language they speak is lower class or working class English. The writer uses third person pronouns: he, she, etc. The excerpt is written from the 3rd person limited point of view. We know what Wilson is thinking (“…but then he thought it would be disrespectful…”) and perhaps the servants in the kitchen. Wilson is NOT the narrator, but it is told from his point of view. We see what he sees and we are allowed to hear what he is thinking, but he is not telling the story. The writer is using this device to better see the social stratification in this society. In the dialogue, the speakers use “I” or “me” or “my” but that doesn’t mean there is a shift in point of view. You need to begin commenting from the very beginning on what is going on in the excerpt. Wilson is walking early in the mo...