AP English Literature and Composition Scoring Rubrics
What are the categories of the AP English Literature and Composition rubric? How much is each category worth?
1.Thesis (0-1 points)
2.Evidence AND Commentary (0-4 points)
3.Sophistication (0-1 points)
These are the facts included or omitted in a text
What are Details?
This is used to start off your essay
What is thesis?
“A pilot having a fear of heights”
What is irony?
“A paragraph in a poem”
What is a stanza?
What is needed in order to earn the thesis point in your own words? What should people reading your essay be able to do?
Students need to have a defensible thesis. People who are reading your essay should be able to agree or disagree with your claim
This is the action of presenting concepts, animals, and any inanimate object with human characteristics
What is Personification?
This is what you use to prove your thesis
What is evidence?
“I'm so hungry I could eat a horse”
What is hyperbole?
“An identifiable shift in the poem”
What is volta?
Where should sophistication be located in your essay?
It should be throughout the entire essay
This is the repetition of the same or similar final consonant sounds in accented syllables or in important words
What is Consonance?
This is what you write to show how your evidence supports your thesis
What is analysis?
“A boiled egg every morning is hard to beat”.
What is a Pun?
“A fourteen-line poem”
What is a sonnet?
How do we make sure that we are vivid and pervasive in our essays?
We use the S/D/B verbs to be vivid and persuasive
Presenting something in a text with double meanings
What is Ambiguity?
You use this to help organize your essay
What is paragraphs?
“Setting foot on the moon may be a small step for a man but a giant step for mankind.”
What is Antithesis?
“Two lines of a complete thought, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme”
What is a couplet?
What is complexity? What is it clear through?
Complexity is when a character or a situation demonstrates contrasting qualities for example passion and logic. Complexity is clear through juxtaposition, irony, oxymoron, and paradox. If a character is complex, that means that they have contrasting qualities, ie. they can be both mean and generous
This is addressing a dead person, an absent person, or a non-human object in a text
What is Apostrophe?
You use this to help make your essay better and show more analysis
What is literary elements?
“Ask for her hand”
HINT: refers to asking a woman to marry
What is Synecdoche?
“The repetition of words or phrases in a group of sentences, clauses, or poetic lines”.
What is anaphora?