App Description

This mobile app is essential for students studying literature or rhetoric. Whether in Communication Arts, AP English (Language & Composition + Literature), IB English HL, and any College Level English class, this app will help you improve your literary analysis skills and get better scores on essays, exams, and the AP test.

The core of this app is the explanation of 150 important literary terms. Since they are accompanied by examples from literature, poetry, and every-day life, it’s quite easy to understand them. Moreover, this app comes with a quiz function, so you can either test yourself by definition or by an example. This allows you to recognize more literary devices and thus write better essays and mini-commentaries.

At the same time, this app provides you guides for literary and rhetorical analysis. On top of that, this app comes with bonus material to further improve your literary analysis skills, including several lists of describing adjectives for tone, mood, and diction as well as a list of verbs to establish cause-effect relationship.

Key Features:
• 150 literary terms explained with examples
• Quiz yourself by matching examples with the literary term
• Quiz yourself by matching definitions with the literary term
• Vocabulary lists of describing adjectives (for tone, diction, and mood)
• A guide to literary analysis
• A guide to rhetorical analysis
• List of verbs to establish cause – effect relationships in literary and rhetorical analysis

iPhone Screenshots

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App Changes

  • June 11, 2014 Initial release
  • March 28, 2015 Price decrease: $0.99 -> FREE!
  • April 16, 2015 Price increase: FREE! -> $2.99