Prerequisites: Successful completion of AP English: Language & Composition and teacher recommendation. This course will analyze literature from the point of view of the writer as well as the reader to determine how literature affects its readers and in what ways. Students will “measure” literature against the history of philosophy to understand how literature fits into its own time as well as in all time. Students will ask, “What is art?” and try to determine the qualities of great literature literary analysis students will examine style, structure, diction, imagery, use of detail, language and syntax. Utilizing vocabulary study to write about literature is an important component of the course. The course has a summer reading requirement. Grade weighted upon successful completion of course.