Ap Test Reflection

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This time last year, I was in AP Literature at Green Valley High School. Although I had already passed the Language AP test, Literature helped reinforce my writing and gave me the fourth English credit I needed to graduate. Ideas from both those years have merged together over time, however my second year proved to be less about a test for me. I learned about effective proportions where most of the paper should be argument rather than detail or evidence and how certain writing elements and literary devices can give writing more depth. Although I passed the AP tests both times, I still find myself at a lost when it comes to defining my argument with precision. A skill that has been useful most often is to “trust your pen;” I’ve found that

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