A.P. Literature and Composition

Key Concepts and Skills You will learn…

By the summation of the course you should be able to…

Approach a poem, prose work or a play and-proceed beyond visceral and emotional reactions- respond to it analytically and critically, both orally and in writing.

Literary terminology that will give you a strong literary based vernacular

Key concepts to illuminate insight rather than familiarity

Understanding that form follows function

And that how authors write is inextricably linked to what they are writing about.

The emphasis of A.P. is to.. “read deliberately and thoroughly,

taking time to understand a work’s complexity, to absorb its richness of meaning, and to analyze how that meaning is embodied in literary form.”