AP Literature Thesis Statement and Topic Sentences

What elements make up a literary analysis thesis?

• Your opinion on the story and claims

• Subject of story, author's purpose, claims

• Subject of the prompt, your opinion (response), and claims

• Subject of the prompt, author's purpose, and claims

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Is this a well developed thesis? "However, as Rachel Harper's poem, "The Myth of Magic" can attest, humans have been implicitly aware of the lines between memory and sounds for decades."

• Yes, it's well developed!

• No, it is not developed.

Is this an example of a well developed thesis?

"Through Harper's use of figurative diction, parallelism, and auditory imagery, she conveys the timeless and uniquely personal nature of music and its ability to evoke emotions of her childhood."

• Yes! It's well developed!

• No, it's not well developed.

With the following thesis, which topic sentence below connects the best?

"Through Harper's use of figurative diction, parallelism, and auditory imagery, she conveys the timeless and uniquely personal nature of music and its ability to evoke emotions of her childhood."

• In the poem, Harper uses figurative diction repeatedly to prove author's purpose.

• In the poem, Harper uses figurative diction in order to introduce and explicate the part that music plays in her familial history.

• In the poem, Harper introduces the reader to the part that music plays in her familial history.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Your thesis should be:

• Arguable

• Have a clear subject

• Share words with the prompt

• Have claims

• All of the above

Which of the following is a major component of any thesis?

• making a claim

• providing an amusing anecdote

• being at least three sentences

• only providing facts

A thesis statement is generally located

• At the beginning of the intro

• Anywere

• the first sentence of your essay

• in the last sentence of your intro

True or False: The thesis statement should express a main idea that links to supporting points in the body paragraphs.

• True

• False

How long is a thesis statement?

• 1-2 sentences

• 1-2 paragraphs

• 1-2 words

• 1-2 pages

How many parts should there be in a thesis statement?

• Four

• Three

• Two

• One