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AP English Literature Hilltop High School Mrs. Demangos

Essay Prompts. AP English Literature Hilltop High School Mrs. Demangos. “A Dream Deferred” Langston Hughes. Read and annotate the Writing Task:

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AP English Literature Hilltop High School Mrs. Demangos

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  1. Essay Prompts AP English Literature Hilltop High School Mrs. Demangos

  2. “A Dream Deferred” Langston Hughes Read and annotate the Writing Task: In an well-organized, multi-paragraph essay analyze Hughes’ Poem, “A Dream Deferred”. Examine the poem’s literary elements to discover how those elements combine to convey the poem’s theme and overall effect. Use specific references to the poem to support your analysis.

  3. Essays: minimum of 5 well-developed paragraphs. This means you should plan what you say ahead of time: cluster, outline, etc. In an well-organized, multi-paragraph essay analyze Hughes’ Poem, “A Dream Deferred”. Examine the poem’s literary elements to discover how those elements combine to convey the poem’s theme and overall effect. Use specific references to the poem to support your analysis. Which specific references from the text will “show” my reader that I am right about the theme and overall effect? What is the theme of the poem? What is the overall effect? Which literary elements does Hughes use to create the theme?

  4. Do What Do/What Chart “A Dream Deferred” literary elementsHughes uses to convey theme and overall effect specific references to the text to support your analysis analyze Examine Use Step One: Circle the verbs Step Two: Underline the nouns Step Three: List the verbs in the left column Step Four: List the nouns in the right column Step Five: Connect the verb to the noun it belongs to Step Six: Use this information when you are planning your essay so that you don’t leave out any important steps

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