📚AP English Literature

📚ap english literature review

Defending a Claim

Verified for the 2025 AP English Literature examLast Updated on June 21, 2023

Laura Walton

Laura Walton



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A discussion of how to create, write, and defend a claim or thesis in response to an AP Literature prompt. We go over reading and properly annotating a prompt and accompanying text, forming a claim or thesis, different types of evidence in different questions (poetry, prose, and theme analysis), and how to explain the evidence to support a claim.



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