I continued instruction on the AP curriculum's focus on identifying the function of plot, character, setting and point of view by providing details on what the AP exam is seeking when it asks for the functions of certain literary elements. For example, we discussed how a parallel plot structure in the novel ,Silas Marner, elucidates class conflict. We then addressed how tone creates an author's perspective or world view. We read through a number of pages of Silas Marner and I pointed out how diction creates the author's perspective toward the society and people the novel portrays.