Literary Terms
A type of comparison between two unlike things without using like or as: He's an ox.
What is a metaphor?
The Outsiders would most likely be analyzed from this literary lens.
What is Marxism?
This is the preferred tense for the FRQs.
What is present tense?
This is the author of Frankenstein.
Who is Mary Shelley?
This is the relationship between Jane and Mrs. Reed.
What is her aunt?
A poetic stanza consisting of four lines, often having alternate rhymes.
What is a quatrain?
The Hunger Games is best analyzed through this lens.
What is Marxism?
The FRQs will cover prose, literary argumentation, and this last genre.
What is poetry?
Due to his kindness, optimism, and love for literature, Henry Clerval serves as this type of character to Victor Frankenstein.
What is a foil?
"Burnt the fire of thine eyes" is an example of this poetic device.
What is a metaphor?
A figure of speech in which two contradictory terms or ideas are intentionally paired: "jumbo shrimp" or "wireless cable"
What is an oxymoron?
What is feminism?
This is the date for the AP exam in English Literature & Composition. In 2026, it will be ONE DAY after Mexico's annual celebration of their victory over France in the 1862 Battle of Puebla.
What is May 6th?
The novel is told through this type of narrative as we read about the Creature through Robert Walton's letter to his sister, which was relayed to him by Victor.
What is a frame narrative?
The name Lowood symbolizes not only the "low" period that Jane experiences, but it also represents this about the girls who attend the school.
What is their low social status/class?
The repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong (two vowels) in nonrhyming stressed syllables followed by consonant sounds: He claps his hands and stamps his feet."
What is assonance?
Disney's short "Bao" in which a mother gets a second chance at motherhood when one of her dumplings comes to life.
What is Psychoanalysis?
The multiple-choice portion of the AP English Literature and Composition exam is this long.
What is one hour?
Frankenstein is considered a work of this literary movement, which emphasizes individualism, nature, and intuition while also blending in elements of the Gothicism.
What is Romanticism?
Charlotte Bronte was the author of this novel. What pseudonym did she write under?
What is Currer Bell?
The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line or stanza: "April is the cruelest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing"
What is enjambment?
Alice Walker's "The Flowers", a short story about a little girl's innocent summer day that turns dark when she discovers a lynched man's skeleton, could be analyze through these 3 lenses (all must be correct).
What is psychoanalytic, Marxism, and post-colonial?
Typically the pass rates for the AP English Literature & Composition exam typically hovers between these TWO multiples of 10.
What is 70% to 80%?
Victor Frankenstein retreats to build a female companion on this island. Its isolation and harsh weather parallels with his grim task and highlights the themes of separation and forbidden creation.
What are the Orkney Islands?
Charlotte Bronte had two sisters who also wrote novels. This sister wrote Wuthering Heights, which is one of the novels Mrs. Powell is teaching.
Who is Emily Bronte?