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Mastery Concepts for AP

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Concepts you need to master in order to do well on the AP Lit exam:

 

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  • denotation and connotation
  • metaphor
  • tone and diction
  • irony and paradox
  • character formation through internal conflict
  • microcosm and macrocosm 
 

Concepts you need to master in order to do well on the AP Comp exam:

  • denotation and connotation
  • tone and diction
  • kairos: audience and situation
  • the speaker's rhetorical purpose
  • appeals to pathos, logos, or ethos
  • rhetorical devices: repetition, analogy, definition, comparison
  • Toulmin's model of argument analysis: claim, data, warrant

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