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AP English Literature and Composition
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Topic 1
Unit 1: Short Fiction I
AP English Literature reads texts in three genres across nine units — short fiction, poetry, and longer fiction or drama — each visited three times at…
6:10
Topic 2
Unit 2: Poetry I
Unit 2 is the course's first poetry unit, and it adds two things to Unit 1's toolkit: structure as an object of analysis, and figurative language handled…
8:35
Topic 3
Unit 3: Longer Fiction or Drama I
Unit 3 is the first longer-fiction-or-drama unit, and the thing to notice is that the length changes what is analysable. Three things become available that a…
10:46
Topic 4
Unit 4: Short Fiction II
Unit 4 returns to short fiction with a much larger toolkit, and its two most valuable additions are narrative distance and the idea that choices reveal values.…
9:03
Topic 5
Unit 5: Poetry II
Unit 5 is the second poetry unit, and it does two things: it names the forms a poem can take, and it completes the figurative toolkit. Closed forms include…
9:35
Topic 6
Unit 6: Longer Fiction or Drama II
Unit 6 is the second longer-fiction-or-drama unit, and it adds the two most sophisticated tools in the course: narrator reliability and the symbol. It opens…
9:01
Topic 7
Unit 7: Short Fiction III
Unit 7 is the last short-fiction unit, and it sharpens two things: how change happens in a character, and pacing as a deliberate manipulation of time. Take…
8:40
Topic 8
Unit 8: Poetry III
Unit 8 is the last poetry unit and it handles the hardest material in the course: the family of devices built on contradiction. But it opens with the most…
7:56
Topic 9
Unit 9: Longer Fiction or Drama III
Unit 9 is the final unit, and its subject is how texts end — and what an ending lets a reader conclude about the whole work. It opens with the interpretive…