AP 4-Literature Card Template

Title: Student Name:

Author: Class:
Publication Date/Literary Movement:
Genre:
Summary/synopsis (150-200 words):







Motifs (reoccurring ideas or images-min. of 3):


Theme Statement (motif + value judgment + purposeful/elevated language):
Ex: Ambition derived from a misguided formula for success will irreparably damage ones mental state and
relationships with others. (DOAS)

Ex: The disillusionment of the importance of success as a measure of self-worth culminates in the
unfortunate but inevitable destruction of all that is sacred. (DOAS)


Literary Techniques (min. of 3)
(ex: symbolism, allegory, setting)
DO NOT REPEAT TECHNIQUES
Literary Techniques Analyzed:
(provide examples/specific references and explain the function)
Consider: 1) Why does the author use a specific technique and 2) what
effect does the technique have on the readers interpretation of the
text, motif, etc.?
Flashback Author uses multiple flashbacks to interrupt and add confusion to the
storyline similar to Willys rapidly progressive
confusion/dementia/madness.
Symbolism The Lowmans home in a once charming neighborhood being overrun
with new construction and large building now seems out of place
similar to Willy position as a traveling salesman the world of
business.
Symbolism Willys car is a direct reflection of the man-broken down and old.






Language Techniques (min of 3):






Language Techniques Analyzed: analyze below
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AP 4-Literature Card Template

(ex: imagery, repetition, extended
metaphor)
DO NOT REPEAT TECHNIQUES
(provide examples/specific references and explain the function)

Repetition Im losing weight, you notice, Pop? These repeated words
illustrate Happys yearning for his emotionally distant father,
Willy.


Significant Characters: list below Characterization: describe below




Significant Quotations (min. of 3):

Significant Quotations: explain below

















Literature Techniques Language Techniques (TWIST, TPFASTT)
1. Allegory
2. Allusion
3. Anecdote
4. Flashback
5. Foreshadowing
6. Irony (dramatic, situational)
7. Narrator Reliability
8. Point of View
9. Rhythm
1. Diction (jargon, colloquialism, slang,
academic, formal, informal, pedantic,
colorful, etc.)
2. Figurative language (understatement,
euphemism, hyperbole, metaphor, simile,
metonymy, analogy, conceit,
personification, apostrophe, zeugma, irony,
idiom, onomatopoeia, oxymoron,
synecdoche, allusion)
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10. Satire
11. Stream of Consciousness
12. Symbolism

3. Irony (verbal, situational, dramatic)
4. Paradox, oxymoron
5. Repetition (alliteration, assonance, parallel
structure, anaphora)
6. Rhythm or rhyme scheme
7. Syntax (polysyndeton, asyndeton,
anaphora, parallel structure, inversion,
chiasmus, antithesis)
8. Authors Tone