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AP LIT EXAM I felt very well prepared to take the AP Literature exam, and I believe that I performed very well on it. I think the biggest reason for my success was my reason to identify universal themes and center my writing around these themes. Especially on the Open Question, when you are potentially flooded by all the options to write about, I was able to quickly identify the universal theme and think through which novel I believed connected the best to this theme, which I believe made a much stronger, more focused essay. My biggest struggle has always been the multiple choice, mainly because of time but also because I struggle to gain the correct meaning from a quick reading, a fact that was also slightly detrimental to me on the Prose and Poetry essays. However, during the school year, with all of the practice we did, I greatly improved in articulating a complexity and identifying character traits that were much more complex and indicative of deep thinking that helped improve th...

Welcome to "The Sin That Can Never Be Forgotten: Guilt, and the Cycle of Betrayal and Redemption in Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner and Alice Notley's "Betrayal"". To view all of my TED Talk materials, please click "READ MORE" TED TALK PPT TED TALK SCRIPT OPEN QUESTION FINAL ESSAY PROSE PASSAGE FINAL ESSAY POETRY FINAL ESSAY

Monster Ball Storyboards Introduction with Prose Passage Thesis Statements & Analysis Thesis: In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Reverend Dimmesdale is forced to convince Hester Prynne to reveal the name of her fellow adulterer, who, unknownst to the audience, is himself. As he turns his fate over to Hester, Dimmesdale distances himself from his own emotions of fear and uncertainty in order to fulfill his societal duty of preaching to the people about the wickedness in sinning. In doing so, he relies on Hester’s words to protect his societal status of being considered one of the holiest people in society. Hawthorne emphasizes the inverted relationship between emotion and societal responsibility by juxtaposing the intimacy of the situation with the formalness of the diction, the contrasting tones of the speakers, and the opposing sentence structures within Hester Prynne and Reverend Dimmesdale’s tense, ambiguous conversation. Analysis: As a sharp cont...