Literary Elements
AP Rubric
Writing Method
Complexity
Vocabulary
100

The literary device that compares things using like or as. 

What is simile?

100

The thesis, evidence and commentary, sophistication are...

What is the three components of the AP Lit essay rubric?

100

A method that is used to explain the complexity within the text.

What is the S/D/B method?

100

Literary elements that can be used for complexity.

What is juxtaposition, irony, oxymoron, and paradox?

100

A direct comparison between two unlike things.

What is metaphor?

200

This can be used to make real-world connections and represent deeper meanings.

What is symbols?

200

Three different types of essays on the AP LIT rubric.

What is poetry analysis, prose fiction argument, and literary argument?

200

These are important to use to support this method.

What is literary elements?

200

Female character that was complex in Midsummer Night’s Dream.

What is Helena?

200

An educated guess based on a fact.

What is inference?

300

She could feel the grass between her toes...... This is an example of _________________________.

What is imagery?

300

Your explanation has to have a connection with a broader context.

What is needed to earn a sophistication point?

300

Literary elements are present within these parts of the method.This section of analysis will require the use of adjectives, and your determinations of purpose will help, however now all purpose must be specific to the context.

What is all the parts of the S/D/D method?

300

If a character is complex, that means that they have….

What is contrasting qualities?

300

Something known to exist or to have happened.

What is fact?

400

An indirect reference made to another literary work, event, famous person, religion, art, or place.

What is allusion?

400

When there is a good defensible thesis, and your evidence and commentary are invalid.

What is thesis and evidence and commentary having no connection?

400

This section of analysis will require the use of adjectives, and your determinations of purpose will help, however now all purpose must be specific.

What is the “because” part?

400

Helena wants to be loved but once love is handed to her, she rejects it.

What is the traits that make Helena a complex character?

400

Double meanings.

What is ambiguity?

500

Many poets use this structural element that allows the reader to convey the tone of the passage and understand a significant idea.

What is consonance?

500

A word being able to give alternative interpretations of the text.

What is illuminating?

500

You have to make sure to include it all throughout your writing.

What is a real world connection?

500

The villagers despised the Man with Enormous Wings but also wanted to use him for their own good.

What is the villagers and the Man with Enormous Wings’ complex relationship?

500

A part represents the whole.

What is synecdoche?