Mackenzie Greeley's AP Lit Comp Blog

Today in class I was able to air some of the questions I had about the poetry readings especially for Emily Dickinson because her poem was from the most different time period. Specifically I asked about.... "An imitiation of a Light That has so little Oil-" *Which referred to a different time period all together when is was common to use oil lamps, whereas today we might refer to electricity as an imitation light.* "That hurt them early - such a lapse Could give them any Balm" *I was very confused by this sentence but I understood the shift from recovery to the cause, how did it transition though. Michelle explained that the transition came from the healing process of this line. Balm is the scab which allows for recovery.* "Death - is but one - and comes but once - And only nails the eyes" *I thought this refered to the dead whose eyes are closed at burial; however, Michelle pointed out that it may hit right between the eyes as a certain cau...

Scans of the Emily Dickinson poem!!! Yay

TP-CASST  I am analyzing I measure every Grief I meet by Emily Dickinson under the TP-CASST style. Both the poem and the grid have been marked up on paper and will be available through scan tomorrow. The reason I have decided not to post my analysis is because I am not totally confident about it and I really want to check with my group's point of view before publication on my blog. Thanks for understanding! And as a P.S. I chose to use the TP-CASST style because for the AP text we will have a limited amount of time to analyze so I want to use something that I can remember for wholesome analysis for the exam. 

The first reading is slow and without meter. Many times there are words you read over and literary techniques you miss. The second, third, and fourth then are practice for meter and a closer look at the literary techniques used. The fifth and sixth are to be read aloud to yourself as a audible lesson and check on the meter. The seventh should be read by a friend for peer assessment of the passage, ask them what they thought was most noticeable as a reader. I am not sure if this was the purpose of the assignment but I hope that this explains how I felt after reading the poverty seven times.

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(so far...) Passage from Chapter 1 1.    The tone of the beginning of the passage is         (a)   whimsical         (b)   brooding         (c)   satirical         (d)   disharmonic         (e)   mysterious 2.    In Line 11, the idea “raw twilight” is referring to         (a)    her feelings toward her aunt         (b)    the time of day         (c)    what she is wearing         (d)    her physical exhaustion         (e)    the slow passage of a sunset 3.  ...

Prose Chapter 1         Read the following passage carefully. Write a well-organized essay that discusses the author’s use of resources of language from the speaker’s experiences in Victorian England as well as dramatize the character of the speaker. Prose Chap 25         The passage that follows is excerpted from Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre, a fictional treatment of the young Jane Eyre, who as an adult will struggle as an independent woman in Victorian England to follow what she knows to be right. Read the passage carefully. Then write a well-organized essay concerning the methods by which the author has portrayed the subject and the substance of the portrait itself. Be sure to consider such literary elements as diction, imagery, and point of view. Prose Chapter 9         The passage that follows is from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. This except highlights th...

Pearland High School  is really great I found a multiple choice test made just like the AP exam, but only with Jane Eyre. Whoever made this you are amazing! I am going to use the passages to make new questions and answers based on the literature techniques I found. If you want to challenge yourself take this  quiz .