"I felt, as I worked on the essays for the English Institute and the other occasions, a growing sense of excitement: not so much a governing idea as a feeling of something brewing. This feeling,Before the actual difficulties of writing set in, as always been for me the happiest moment and the composition process: you become allergic to everything, including things that everyone including you had long regarded as boring or unimportant, and everything you encounter, however accidentally, seems potentially rich with significance" (Greenblat xiii).
The feeling of excitement that felt Greenblat when pondering his topic of self-fashioning is how I feel while reading and analyzing the texts assigned in AP Literature. The thoughts I have recorded in my commonplace book reflect the progression of my ability to recognize the rhetorical moves in texts. Additionally, I have gained a better understanding of literary terms, choices and how they reflect the author's argument and I have learned to pinpoint the argument, understand why the author is making it, and what they want us to do with the information provided. I have also gained a large understanding of society, self, aesthetic experience, and criticism from the factual evidence in the literary passages. I find myself relating the things I have learned in AP Lit to situations I come across every day.
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