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You know what would be hilarious? An AP Fandom Lit and Comp test. I mean, at least the essay portion, and not with the actual essays, but, you know, just the prompts, only for fic.
Like:
( In many works of fiction, past events can affect, positively or negatively, the present actions, attitudes, or values of a character. Choose a fic or vid in which a character must contend with some aspect of the past, either personal or societal. Then write an essay in which you show how the character's relationship to the past contributes to the meaning of the work as a whole. You may choose a work from the the list below or another fic or vid of similar literary merit. Do not merely summarize the plot. )
As you may, perhaps, be able to guess, I just took the AP English Lit. & Comp. test on Thursday. Some of you may now be having flashbacks to said test.
Actually, this is pretty interesting. There's a lot of fic that I'd have to reread to see if it fits these three prompts -- the first three from the CollegeBoard website -- and the other sample prompts. A lot of it does. I am very curious now, because English Lit takes novels and plays of "literary merit" -- dude, you do not want to start me on one of my literary merit rants right now -- and says, "Write about this," but you can do that with fic, too -- or anything else. Now I'm really curious. (Note: I tried for longer fics, novella or novel-length, rather than one-shots, although some of these are one-shots.)
Not that I, you know, expect anyone to sit down and write me three essays in forty minutes each. Unless you want to.
Prompts taken from the CollegeBoard's AP English Literature sample questions and scoring guidelines, altered slightly to fit the medium. (Although I also say vids -- the original phrasing was "novel or play" and, in the last case, "novel, play, or epic poem" -- there are only two examples, both from Star Wars, because it's hard for vids to show the prompts used. I think it's significant that most of the vids used are Star Wars vids because they can show the passage of time over the course of six movies, as well as the impacts that come from prior decisions.)
Like:
( In many works of fiction, past events can affect, positively or negatively, the present actions, attitudes, or values of a character. Choose a fic or vid in which a character must contend with some aspect of the past, either personal or societal. Then write an essay in which you show how the character's relationship to the past contributes to the meaning of the work as a whole. You may choose a work from the the list below or another fic or vid of similar literary merit. Do not merely summarize the plot. )
As you may, perhaps, be able to guess, I just took the AP English Lit. & Comp. test on Thursday. Some of you may now be having flashbacks to said test.
Actually, this is pretty interesting. There's a lot of fic that I'd have to reread to see if it fits these three prompts -- the first three from the CollegeBoard website -- and the other sample prompts. A lot of it does. I am very curious now, because English Lit takes novels and plays of "literary merit" -- dude, you do not want to start me on one of my literary merit rants right now -- and says, "Write about this," but you can do that with fic, too -- or anything else. Now I'm really curious. (Note: I tried for longer fics, novella or novel-length, rather than one-shots, although some of these are one-shots.)
Not that I, you know, expect anyone to sit down and write me three essays in forty minutes each. Unless you want to.
Prompts taken from the CollegeBoard's AP English Literature sample questions and scoring guidelines, altered slightly to fit the medium. (Although I also say vids -- the original phrasing was "novel or play" and, in the last case, "novel, play, or epic poem" -- there are only two examples, both from Star Wars, because it's hard for vids to show the prompts used. I think it's significant that most of the vids used are Star Wars vids because they can show the passage of time over the course of six movies, as well as the impacts that come from prior decisions.)