AP Latin — Topic-by-Topic Guide (Deep Dive)
Deep Dive Track: Topic-by-Topic
Annotated passages, detailed grammar analysis, literary devices, and AP grader insights. For intensive exam prep with a tutor.
Unit 1
Aeneid Book 1
Annotated passage analysis, grammar spotlights, literary devices, AP grader insights
Unit 2Aeneid Book 2
Laocoon, Sinon, the Horse — close reading of Vergil’s most dramatic book
Unit 3Aeneid Books 4 & 6
Dido’s tragedy, Aeneas’s pietas vs. amor, the Sibyl and Anchises’s prophecy
Unit 4Pliny — Personal Letters
Epistolary style, social context, rhetorical strategies in Pliny’s private letters
Unit 5Pliny — Letters to Trajan
Official letter conventions, Pliny on Christians, historiographical significance
Unit 6Aeneid Books 7, 11 & 12
Furor vs. pietas, Camilla’s aristeia, the moral ambiguity of the Aeneid’s ending