- It's not worth much on the AP Exam for simply identifying the tools the author uses to convey the meaning of the work as a whole. There is "no what without why." I guess before I was like "well maybe I can still pass if I know what they did at least?????" but I mean now I definitely see that that would not really work. The AP evaluators are looking to see your analysis, which has to go beyond just what, it has to link it to the text, so they can see your understanding. It's just important for me because I know I still have hard time making that last little connection that would help my writing a lot.
- I never realized how pace can affect a story. It was never something I really thought about, or perhaps nothing I could ever give a name to. And it can completely alter the way we interpret a situation, a character, and the story as a whole so it's just interesting that I had never encountered it in any of m other English classes (public school sigh), or even thought of it's impact.
- Okay again I blame the fact that my quality of education has been pretty inconsistent but I never learned the difference between a narrator and speaker???? Narrator and author yeah (even if a lot of us tend to equate the two), but never narrator and speaker. Whenever I've heard someone use both terms (including past teachers) it was in a way that equated them, implied they were the same thing, so I never knew they were different and did different things for the meaning of the text.
- Oh my god I have so much to learn for poetry Bavaro it is insane. I think I've talked about poetry in an English class probably, at a maximum, seven times. And not what makes up a poem and all the intricacies or even the necessary basics. We just talked about what we thought it meant, but not really anything else. I haven't learned about the formal aspects of poetry since probably third grade, when I learned about a stanza, and an aabb or abab rhyme scheme. And the whole sound pattern section on poetry makes no sense wowie.
- Uh picking up on symbols honestly. The packet said not to go hunting for symbols, and I don't usually do that anyway, but whenever we had to talk about symbolism in Feldman's class or your class I just????? I think the problem I normally have, which I noticed a lot last year, is that I guess that I recognize something is appearing a lot and is important, but I'm never like "oh that's a symbol." And so when people would volunteer with a super important symbol they noticed and it's meaning I would just be like "oh wait I thought that was obvious though what???" SOOOO I think part of the problem is that I make symbolism much harder for myself than it should be. The packet said it too, the author isn't trying to hide these things from you. So yeah symbols man. It's just a mixture of me not being able to ever make that connection/give it a name, and over complicating things all the time always.
1 skill you feel you know so well ypu could teach others
- I feel really confident in analyzing point of view, and distinguishing the different types. Plus a lot of my recent analyses have been surrounding how point of view contributes to the meaning of the text and I just like it. Yeah.
