AP English Literature and Composition Scoring Rubrics
1.Thesis (0-1 points) 2.Evidence AND Commentary (0-4 points) 3.Sophistication (0-1 points)
What are the categories of the AP English Literature and Composition rubric?
This is a arguable claim that clearly and specifically states the topic and purpose of your research work.
What is a thesis?
These are the facts included or omitted in a text.
What are Details?
“ A pilot having a fear of heights”
What is irony?
A grouped set of lines within a poem.
What is a stanza?
1.Students need to have a defensible thesis. People who are reading your essay should be able to agree or disagree with your claim.
What is needed in order to earn the thesis point?
This is what you use to prove your thesis.
What is evidence?
This is the action of presenting concepts, animals, and any inanimate object with human characteristics.
What is Personification?
“I'm so hungry I could eat a horse”.
What is hyperbole?
A lyrical poem of 14 lines with a specific rhyme and rhythm scheme and an identifiable shift. First section= problem. End of poem= solution.
What is a sonnet?
This should be throughout the entire essay to develop a complex literary argument.
What is sophistication?
This is what you write to show how your evidence supports your thesis.
What is analysis?
This is the repetition of the same or similar final consonant sounds in accented syllables or in important words.
What is Consonance?
“A boiled egg every morning is hard to beat”.
What is a Pun?
Two lines of a complete thought usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme.
What is a couplet?
We use these to be vivid and persuasive in our essays.
What are S/D/B verbs?
You use this to help organize your essay.
What are paragraphs?
Presenting something in a text with double meanings.
What is Ambiguity?
“Setting foot on the moon may be a small step for a man but a giant step for mankind.”
What is Antithesis?
An identifiable shift in the poem.
What is a volta?
When a character or a situation demonstrates contrasting qualities for example passion and logic. This is clear through juxtaposition, irony, oxymoron, and paradox.
What is complexity and what is it clear through?(4)
You use this to allow the writer to convey a deeper meaning that goes beyond what's on the page.
What are literary elements?
This is addressing a dead person, an absent person or a non-human object in a text
What is Apostrophe?
“Ask for her hand”
HINT: refers to asking a woman to marry
What is Synecdoche?
The repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of each line.
What is anaphora?