Effusive Gushing

I'm typing this at 11:41 p.m. so the effusive gushing may not be as laudatory as it was during the grading process! Those Frankenstein Prose Prompts were, as a whole, magnificent.  The average number was a 7.56 and there were five scores of 9 (JL, KB, AB, LS, NC - some of these really should be on a 10 scale). So many of you grasped onto the Bible and Paradise Lost allusions and how this reflected our creature's newly found regret and despair, the narration changes and how Walton's perspective adds another layer to our creature's persona, the rhetorical questions the creature continues to pepper through his speeches to elicit pity, the Romantic verve of nature, the psychological upbringing of an abandoned child, the literary devices conveying the relationship of Victor and his offspring, and the character terms of dynamic, round, antagonist, protagonist, and persona. Some of you wrote your best essays of AP Lit with this one! To see the growth of your analysis and the ease of your compositions in a timed environment should make you very proud of your writing prowess and skills.

As we are moving into our first full AP exam later this week and into next week, I hope you take all of the tricks for prose, poetry, free response, and multiple choice to heart and give your best work again. You are all capable of tearing apart a text for its elements and constructing analysis that conveys the characterization, the structure, the milieu, and the themes of our texts. The 5 is in reach!