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• AP English Language

  • Author, Tone, and Intent

    • Assumptions

    • Audience

    • Inference About the Author

    • Inference About the Subject

    • Other Author and Tone Questions

    • Style Choices

    • Thesis or Argument

    • Tone

  • Literary Devices

    • Extended Literary Devices

      • Allegory and Analogy

      • Apostrophe

      • Metaphor and Simile

      • Other Phrasal Devices

      • Parallelism, Anaphora, Repetition

      • Personification and Synesthesia

    • Literary Devices and Diction

      • Alliteration

      • Metonymy and Synecdoche

      • Other Devices and Diction

      • Oxymoron and Paradox

      • Syntax and Sentence Structure

    • Tonal Literary Devices

      • Antithesis

      • Euphemism

      • Exaggeration and Understatement

      • Logos, Ethos, and Pathos

      • Other Tonal Devices

  • Passage Meaning and Construction

    • Character and Subject Relationships

    • Evaluating Evidence and Examples

    • Interpreting Literary Devices

    • Motives and Goals of Characters

    • Other Passage Questions

    • Passage Organization and Order

    • Point of View

    • Rhetorical Mode and Style

  • Words and Phrases in Context

    • Diction and Vocabulary

      • Connotation and Denotation

      • Relationship Between Words

      • Word Choice and Effect

      • Word Meaning

    • Phrase Usage

      • Meaning in Context

      • Phrase Choice and Effect

      • Purpose in Context

• Common Core: 10th Grade English Language Arts

  • Language

    • Meanings of Unknown and Multiple-Meaning Words and Phrases: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.4

      • Use Common Grade-Appropriate Greek or Latin Affixes and Roots to Determine Word Meanings: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.4.B

      • Use Context Clues to Determine Word Meanings: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.4.A

      • Verify Preliminary Determinations of Word Meanings: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.4.D

    • Understand Nuanced Word Meanings and Relationships: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.5

      • Interpret Figures of Speech in Context: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.5.A

  • Reading: Informational Text

    • Analyze How an Author Structures and Orders Discussion of Events or Ideas: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.3

    • Analyze How Particular Sections of the Text Develop the Author’s Ideas: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.5

    • Analyze Key Historical and Literary U.S. Texts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.9

    • Analyze the Strength, Reasoning, Validity, and Relevance of Claims While Evaluating Written Arguments: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.8

    • Cite Strong, Thorough Evidence to Support Textual Analysis and Inferences: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.1

    • Determine a Main Idea, Analyze Its Development via Details, and Objectively Summarize a Text: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.2

    • Determine Authorial Point of View and Analyze Supporting Rhetoric: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.6

    • Determine Figurative, Connotative, and Technical Word Meanings and Analyze Cumulative Effects of Word Choice: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.4

    • Read and Comprehend Grade-Appropriate Informational Texts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.10

  • Reading: Literature

    • Analyze a Subject’s Portrayal in Two Media: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.7

    • Analyze a Theme’s Development in Relation to Specific Details and Objectively Summarize a Text: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.2

    • Analyze How a Work Uses and Transforms Source Material: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.9

    • Analyze How Complex Characters Drive a Story: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.3

    • Analyze How Textual Structure, Order of Events, and Timelines Create Meaning: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.5

    • Analyze the Point of View of a Work of World Literature: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.6

    • Cite Strong, Thorough Evidence to Support Textual Analysis and Inferences: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1

    • Determine Figurative and Connotative Word Meanings and Analyze Cumulative Effects of Word Choice: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4

    • Read and Comprehend Grade-Appropriate Literary Texts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.10

• Common Core: 11th Grade English Language Arts

  • Language

    • Command of grammar and usage: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.11-12.1

      • Complex or contested usage: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.11-12.1.B

      • Understanding of usage as a matter of convention, subject to change and debate: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.11-12.1.A

    • Meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.11-12.4

      • Context clues to determine word or phrase meaning: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.11-12.4.A

      • Determining word pronunciation, meaning, or standard usage: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.11-12.4.C

  • Reading: Informational Text

    • Analyze complex sets of ideas or sequences: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.3

    • Authorial point of view and style: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.6

    • Find and analyze two or more themes; objective summary of the text: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.2

    • Read and comprehend literary nonfiction: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.10

    • Reasoning, premises, purposes, and arguments in seminal U.S. texts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.8

    • Structure of the exposition or argument: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.5

    • Textual evidence to support claims about implicit and explicit meaning: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.1

    • Themes, purposes, and rhetoric of foundational U.S. documents: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.9

  • Reading: Literature

    • Analyze authorial choices in terms of narrative development: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.3

    • Analyze multiple interpretations of a work: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.7

    • Distinguishing what is directly stated from what is meant using POV: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.6

    • Find and analyze two or more themes; objective summary of the text: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2

    • Knowledge of foundational works of American literature: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.9

    • Literal, figurative, and connotative word and phrase meanings; word and phrase choices: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.4

    • Read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.10

    • Structural choices' impact on meaning, aesthetics, and overall structure: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.5

    • Textual evidence to support claims about implicit and explicit meaning: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.1

• Common Core: 12th Grade English Language Arts

  • Language

    • Command of grammar and usage: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.11-12.1

      • Complex or contested usage: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.11-12.1.B

    • Figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.11-12.5

      • Analyze nuances of words with similar denotations: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.11-12.5.B

      • Interpret and analyze figures of speech in context: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.11-12.5.A

    • Meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.11-12.4

      • Context clues to determine word or phrase meaning: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.11-12.4.A

      • Determining word pronunciation, meaning, or standard usage: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.11-12.4.C

      • Verify preliminary determination of word or phrase meaning: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.11-12.4.D

    • Understanding material in varied contexts to make effective style choices: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.11-12.3

      • Vary syntax for effect; apply understanding of syntax to texts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.11-12.3.A

  • Reading: Informational Text

    • Analyze complex sets of ideas or sequences: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.3

    • Authorial point of view and style: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.6

    • Figurative, connotative, and technical meaning of words and phrases: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.4

    • Find and analyze two or more themes; objective summary of the text: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.2

    • Read and comprehend literary nonfiction: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.10

    • Reasoning, premises, purposes, and arguments in seminal U.S. texts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.8

    • Structure of the exposition or argument: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.5

    • Textual evidence to support claims about implicit and explicit meaning: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.1

    • Themes, purposes, and rhetoric of foundational U.S. documents: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.9

  • Reading: Literature

    • Knowledge of foundational works of American literature: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.9

    • Analyze authorial choices in terms of narrative development: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.3

    • Analyze multiple interpretations of a work: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.7

    • Distinguishing what is directly stated from what is meant using POV: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.6

    • Find and analyze two or more themes; objective summary of the text: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2

    • Literal, figurative, and connotative word and phrase meanings; word and phrase choices: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.4

    • Read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.10

    • Structural choices' impact on meaning, aesthetics, and overall structure: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.5

    • Textual evidence to support claims about implicit and explicit meaning: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.1

• Common Core: 9th Grade English Language Arts

  • Reading: Informational Text

    • Analyze How an Author Structures and Orders Discussion of Events or Ideas: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.3

    • Analyze How Particular Sections of the Text Develop the Author’s Ideas: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.5

    • Analyze Key Historical and Literary U.S. Texts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.9

    • Analyze the Strength, Reasoning, Validity, and Relevance of Claims While Evaluating Written Arguments: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.8

    • Cite Strong, Thorough Evidence to Support Textual Analysis and Inferences: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.1

    • Determine a Main Idea, Analyze Its Development via Details, and Objectively Summarize a Text: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.2

    • Determine Authorial Point of View and Analyze Supporting Rhetoric: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.6

    • Determine Figurative, Connotative, and Technical Word Meanings and Analyze Cumulative Effects of Word Choice: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.4

  • Reading: Literature

    • Analyze a Theme’s Development in Relation to Specific Details and Objectively Summarize a Text: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.2

    • Analyze How a Work Uses and Transforms Source Material: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.9

    • Analyze How Complex Characters Drive a Story: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.3

    • Analyze How Textual Structure, Order of Events, and Timelines Create Meaning: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.5

    • Analyze the Point of View of a Work of World Literature: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.6

    • Cite Strong, Thorough Evidence to Support Textual Analysis and Inferences: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1

    • Determine Figurative and Connotative Word Meanings and Analyze Cumulative Effects of Word Choice: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4