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Working the Prompt The AP English Test Essay Questions The prompt construction SUBJECT + VERB + OBJECT Gives you the task to analyze SUBJECT Refers to the given text on which both the prompt and your essay are based. Read the following passage from . . . Writers often highlight In the follow poem, the speaker discusses In her book the author makes the following observation about . . . VERB Specifically tells you what to do with the text Analyze how the writer uses literary devices Analyze how the poet uses imagery Compare, contrast, evaluate, justify, describe, discuss, identify and explain, relate, identify and discuss, OBJECT = GOAL Makes clear the overall purpose of your essay. Two conflicts within one character illumination the meaning Revelation of character Reveals the speaker’s response to Recognize Key Words and Phrases Consider such stylistic devices as: diction, imagery, syntax . . Consider formal elements such as structure , syntax, diction. . . Consider such poetic elements as imagery, metaphor, rhythm, Such as versus Must Watch out for key words. Such as means you choose from the list or others. Other language will indicate that you must use the words or titles in the list Deconstruction Time Carefully read the following passage form George Eliot’s novel Middlemarch (1871). Then write an essay in which you characterize the narrator’s attitude toward Dorothea Brooke and analyze the literary techniques used to convey the attitude. Support your analysis with specific references to the text. Open question Have eight plays or novels in your literary repertoire Discuss ideas not literary techniques How meaning is created by ------ Meaning = what is set in motion Open question Have eight plays or novels in your literary repertoire Discuss ideas not literary techniques How meaning is created by ------ Meaning = what is set in motion 2007 In many works of literature, past events can affect, positively or negatively, the present actions, a