Character
In Frankenstein, this character’s isolation directly contributes to his moral decline.
Who is Victor Frankenstein?
This is the time and place in which a story occurs, often influencing the mood, events, and characters’ actions.
What is setting?
This is the voice that tells the story or presents the poem, shaping how readers perceive events, characters, and ideas.
What is the narrator or speaker?
This poetic device makes a direct comparison between unlike things without using "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
This is the one element every AP Literature FRQ must include.
What is a defensible thesis?
A character’s changes in behavior, attitude, or understanding can indicate either progress or decline, showing how they grow or deteriorate over the course of a story.
What is character development?
This element of a story can represent ideas, emotions, or themes beyond its literal location, adding deeper meaning to the narrative.
What can setting symbolize?
This is how point of view affects a reader’s understanding of motivation.
What is by limiting or granting access to a character’s thoughts?
This term describes the speaker’s attitude toward the subject or audience of a poem.
What is tone?
In a text, this literary device functions to emphasize an idea or association through the repeated use of a sound, word, or phrase.
What is repetition?
These textual details reveal a character’s motivation more effectively than plot summary because they show why the character acts.
What are a character’s thoughts, choices, dialogue, and reactions to conflict?
This is how setting can reflect a character’s internal state.
What is through weather, landscape, or environment mirroring emotion?
This narrative trait requires readers to read critically and question the truth of events.
What is an unreliable narrator?
This sound device involves the repetition of initial consonant sounds and can create emphasis or mood.
What is alliteration?
Readers consider this to determine why an author wrote a passage and what they want the audience to understand or take away.
What is the primary purpose of the passage?
A character’s feelings, tone, or perspective in a story can reveal this.
What could a character’s attitude suggest about their motivations, beliefs, or how they may change throughout the narrative?
In Frankenstein, these natural settings often symbolize emotional refuge or momentary peace.
What are mountains, lakes, and remote landscapes?
This is one advantage of third-person narration over first-person narration.
What is increased objectivity or broader perspective?
This is how imagery most often functions in poetry.
What is creating sensory experience that reinforces tone and theme?
In Frankenstein, light imagery most often represents this idea.
What is knowledge or discovery?
This is how characters can function as foils to one another.
What is by highlighting contrasting values, choices, or responses to conflict?
This is why authors often choose specific historical or cultural settings.
What is to comment on social norms, power structures, or historical tensions?
In Frankenstein, this narrator frames Victor’s story and influences our initial judgment of him.
Who is Robert Walton?
These associations of words shape tone and meaning beyond literal definition.
What are connotations?
This is what makes a literary claim defensible in an AP-style argument.
What is that it requires a thematic interpretation/ a claim that can be supported with evidence?