Always stay close to the text when writing the AP Literature Poetry Essay. Remember that your job is not to paraphrase but to analyze. Keep explicit descriptions of the poem concise, and spend the majority of your time writing strong analysis backed up by textual evidence....
In many places, predators and prey come and go, but it is not as easy for them to do so on an island that is surrounded by water. That’s the case for the wolves and moose of Isle Royale National Park, the subject of THE WOLVES AND MOOSE OF ISLE ROYALE: RESTORING AN ECOSYSTEM. T...
In recent years, researchers have used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and other sophisticated tools to study how the human brain reacts to poetry. They've discovered, among other things, that the brain seems to be wired to recognize the rhymes and rhythms that poets use, and dif...
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To do that, though, you need to have a great plot. But what is plot, and how do you craft one into a great story? In this guide, we're going to talk about plot in literature. I'll share a broad definition of plot, then dive into the approach we use at The Write Practice (ca...
(If you use fiction and poetry, it should be to help students understand how various effects are achieved by writers' linguistic and rhetorical choices.) [Note: you can see a list of possible authors and works in the AP English Language course description.] ...
“Don’t think that a high school class is going to be anything like your LIT 451 class, where all 15 of you sit down with the professor and discuss Frankenstein through a Freudian lens,” explains AP English literature teacher, Jasara Hines.“Don’t think that all your kids are going ...
KB Brookins' poetry collection "Freedom House" is a manifesto and rallying call for Black trans liberation Electric Literature Urgently Needs Your Help For the 15,000 people who visit our site every day, reading Electric Literature costs nothing. And yet Electric Lit is not free.We need to ra...
Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows. — Joseph Campbell 33 There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough. — William Stafford 29 Very often ...
Challenge yourself and question what you're spending your time doing. Analyze whether you're getting that much out of every extra minute. And have the willpower to shut it off and spend that time doing something you really care about. ...