AP Lit Rubric
The points for a passing grade on the AP Lit essays.
What are 4, 5, and 6?
The ironic minimalizing of a fact.
What is an understatement?
To stress the importance of something.
What is emphasize?
The purposeful use of words that contains denotative or connotative meaning.
What is diction?
Four Athenians find themselves in a magical chaotic mess dealing with love potions.
What is A Midsummer Night’s Dream?
The three types of essays that you need to write for the AP Lit exam.
What are Poetry Analysis, Prose Fiction Argument, and Literary argument?
When an object is used to represent something to which it is closely related.
What is metonymy?
To make a statement that helps visualize, and define information about people, places, and things.
What is describe?
The narrative voice used to tell a story.
What is point of view?
A collection of vignettes on a young girl’s life.
What is The House on Mango Street?
You must do this in addition to providing specific evidence for all claims in your essay.
What is consistently explain how your evidence supports your claim(s)?
When a part represents the whole, such as hands = person.
What is synecdoche?
To use details that include and evoke the 5 senses to draw a mental picture of what is going on.
What is illustrate?
An attitude of a speaker or writer towards the subject or audience.
What is tone?
A story in which an angel falls into a couple’s home.
What is "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"?
One way you earn the sophistication point.
What is...
- Identifying and exploring complexities or tensions within the passage.
- Illuminating the student’s interpretation by situating it within a broader context.
- Accounting for alternative interpretations of the passage.
- Employing a style that is consistently vivid and persuasive.
The direct contrast of structurally parallel word groupings.
What is antithesis?
To make something feel more present by digging deeper and going down to the roots of something to evoke an emotion.
What is deepen?
The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot.
What is foreshadowing?
A poem in which a mother tells her daughter how she should behave and act.
What is "Girl"?
Key differences between the score 0 and a 6 on the AP Lit essays.
What is simply restates the thesis (if present), repeats provided information, or offers information irrelevant to the prompt?
A comparison between two things typically for the purpose of explanation and clarification.
What is an analogy?
To back up and further elaborate the point that is trying to be proven by using details.
What is support?
Contrasting elements placed side by side in order to emphasize their differences.
What is juxtaposition?
The author discusses her expectations and explains the process of making an argument by using metaphors related to fishing.
What is "How to Write a Paper for this Class"?