The multiple choice questions: 45%. 1 hour to work on them. YOU DON’T NEED TO ANSWER EVERY SINGLE QUESTIONS CORRECT IN ORDER TO GET “5” ON AN EXAM.
The free response questions: 55%. 2 hours to work on them.
Multiple choice questions:
Some of the areas that multiple choice questions cover are
- The main idea
- The tone
- Vocabulary (APEnglish exams can also be seen as “Hidden vocabulary test”)
- The structure
- To draw inferences from the reading such as the purpose of the author.
Do not take too much time making notes. If you insist, try to stick to abbreviations, symbols, or keywords. Some of the things that you have to notice are: Titles, main ideas, patterns of organization, and significant diction.
Eliminate incorrect answers.
Trust your Guts. Look at picture below to see what i mean.
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Notice that you are NOT looking for symbols, figures of speech, allusions, etc. Unless the question directs you to, do not look for them.
How to prepare for AP English Literature and Composition test:
- Study Vocabulary words
- Study literary terms
- Practice answering Multiple Choice questions.
They consist of poetry, prose, and requirements of you to choose a work and analyze it in the context of the question asked.
2 close readings consist of poetry and a prose and an open prompt.
About 40 minutes per free response question
You could write free response on two ways: block or point by point.
In block style, you would just write different paragraphs regarding to different matters.
In Point by Point style: Compare and contrast given poems A and B on one matter. Then in another paragraph, compare and contrast another matter) Can be used when some of parts can be easily compared
On close reading sections, you should note: title, narrative stance (point of view, characteristics of the narrator or speaker), significant (reveling of theme, character, tone, or author’s purpose), and patterns of organization.
Look for incongruity or “opposition” as well as congruity. Look for compare and contrast as well as similarity.
On open prompt, there might be questions about “ theme” or “how a given element of literature functions”
Preparation for Free response questions on AP Literature test:
- Read Hamlet and The Indivisible man and annotate and compare and contrast them.
- Practice answering Free Response questions.
- Review terms
- RTD (Read Think Discuss)
- Review book notes.
Don’t Stress out! You will do well on the exam!
Allusion: Reference to something in history or previous literature (Means of suggesting far more than it says)
For example: My dad made my mom ate the red apple in the apple garden. This is biblical allusion to the Genesis; a snake tempted Eve to eat a fruit.
What we’ve done in class:
- Study Literary terms
- Critical Wiki test on Monday
- Wiki ratings due Wednesday. 10.6.10
- The Indifferent and The Love's Deity" compare and contrast due on Wednesday, 10.13.10
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