AP Lit: English 12 exam prep Section d

If you were absent today, pop by to get all the handouts and write a 400 to 600 word multi-paragraph composition on the prompt:

Our views of the past change as we mature.


Focus on the following criteria:

• use literary devices such as wit, understatement, irony, alliteration, allusion, parallellism, concrete imagery, appeal to the five senses
• multi-paragraph (As many paragraphs as you wish but a min. of 3)
• start with in medias res
• engage the reader
• maturity of style (the audience will be English teachers)
• sophistication of wit

Start with one of the following types of beginnings:

1. A description of an object (Appeal to the five senses. Set the tone through your choice of words and syntax)
2. Start with a scene (narration). Use strong verbs, dialogue, personification.
3. Start with a description of a setting (pathetic fallacy)


Your opening must

• use literary devices
• engage the reader
• establish the tone
• surprise the reader