AP Multiple Choice Questions:
Strategy #1: Know what you are supposed to do.
l READ VERY CAREFULLY AND SLOWLY
l Read the passage FIRST before answering the questions.
Strategy #2: Know your enemy
There are generally five structures of the multiple choice questions:
1) Rhetorical Function: What’s author’s purpose of sentence, group of sentences, whole paragraph, or line/stanza of poetry in relation to the rest of the piece.
Ex: Between in lines 50 and 75 and between lines 34 and 35, there is a shift from…
2) Context: It is like a vocabulary text, asking the meaning of a word used in the context of a passage. Must choose the meanings well so that it can be fit into the passage.
Ex) In line 56, the word “fat” describes the…
3) Antecedent: It is almost always can be seen in poetry. Asks which antecedent the quoted word is referring to. IT IS USUALLY NOT THE MOST OBVIOUS ONES CLOSED TO THE QUOTED WORD, HOWEVER.
Ex) All of the following appear to shed tears or be filled with tears EXCEPT the…
4) Style: Global kind of question (Answer that is better, the most time consuming one). Asks the styles that author has chose to made such as shift in the one’s style.
Ex) The grandmother and the child in the poem are portrayed primarily through…
5) Tone: (Also global questions. If one part of answer is wrong, the other part of it is wrong). Asks to identify the tone of the passage or a selection from the passage.
Ex) The mood of this poem is best described as…
Connections between this and my own experience: I have found out that the questions appeared on the AP English and Literature exams were similar to those on the ACT and SAT. They both have questions about certain vocubary words and ask for main ideas. Thus, it is wise to study ACT and SAT as well as AP English and Literature exam.
Connections between this and my own experience: I have found out that the questions appeared on the AP English and Literature exams were similar to those on the ACT and SAT. They both have questions about certain vocubary words and ask for main ideas. Thus, it is wise to study ACT and SAT as well as AP English and Literature exam.
AP ESSAY
For past English classes, I have learned to write only one sentence for thesis. But now I know that I can write more than one sentences for thesis statement. In addition, I also learned that even though the prompt does not explicitly state about “hidden” so what questions, I have to mention it.
http://www.collegeconfidential.com/ is the great site to prepare for the AP English and Literature exam. It gives the readers about what to expect and how to prepare for the test.
http://www.collegeconfidential.com/ is the great site to prepare for the AP English and Literature exam. It gives the readers about what to expect and how to prepare for the test.
Hamlet
(I'm sorry for disorganize paragraph below; i have no idea how to fix it)
- The original story was Norse legend, written on 1200 AD by Saxo Grammaticus.
- Shakespeare used Norse legend play by Thomas Kyd, which is called Ur-Halmet
- Original ending: Hamlet takes revenge against his uncle and becomes the new king. He doesn’t die.
- Hamlet’s original name is Amleth.
- Seneca is the type of Roman tragedy that Shakespeare used in his play, Hamlet.
- Characteristics of Seneca are:
1. Son’s revenge for a father’s murder
2. Murder is revealed by protagonists ghosts
3. Revenge results from conscious and focused action
- The some of the plots of Seneca includes:
-The hero’s hesitation
-The hero’s insanity (either real or pretended)
-The hero’s contemptation of Suicide
-Multiple levels of intrigue
-An able scheming villain
-The sensationalized of murder on state or the exhibition of dead bodies.
Managing the dynamics of revenge, audiences encounter
- The offense, which can be maximized by the multiplication of injuries and the adding of insult.
- The antagonist, most effectively some really formidable (But still vulnerable) person or force.
- Clarification of strategy and marshalling of resources.
- A series of delays, obstacles, diversions, mistakes, reservations- anything to retard the momentum.
- Some unforeseen development that almost thwarts the scheme.
- The showdown, with the revenge carried out in some answerable.
Connections between this and the older materials: Oedipus, which is the main character of the Oedipus Rex, is similar to Hamlet. For example, their downfalls were technically created by their parents. For example, if Oedipus's parents decided not to abandon Oedipus in the forest, Oedipus's downfall could have avoided. In addition, if Hamlet's uncle didn't kill Hamlet's father, Hamlet would not have planned to kill Hamlet's uncle. Also, it is arguable that faiths had controlled their lives. Hamlet admitted in the end that his life depended on faith. Oedipus at first tried to avoid the faith, but in the end, the faith won.
Connections between this and the older materials: Oedipus, which is the main character of the Oedipus Rex, is similar to Hamlet. For example, their downfalls were technically created by their parents. For example, if Oedipus's parents decided not to abandon Oedipus in the forest, Oedipus's downfall could have avoided. In addition, if Hamlet's uncle didn't kill Hamlet's father, Hamlet would not have planned to kill Hamlet's uncle. Also, it is arguable that faiths had controlled their lives. Hamlet admitted in the end that his life depended on faith. Oedipus at first tried to avoid the faith, but in the end, the faith won.
-During the class, we have discussed Hamlet. We have concluded that one of the themes in Hamlet is that he is chained to be a king and not be anyone else. Even his name is chained, since it is named after the prior kings. He is nobody. Thus, it can be seen that the Denmark is prison.
-This book seems to hold beliefs that ghosts are not holy. In the first scene, the guards wanted to throw the spear at the ghost of king and referred to him as “it”, not “him.”
Homework:
-Core concepts
-Comment on the first scene of Hamlet
-Finish Core Concepts
-Finish class notes and outside readings by November 15th.
-Finish the final draft of drama essay
-Core concepts
-Comment on the first scene of Hamlet
-Finish Core Concepts
-Finish class notes and outside readings by November 15th.
-Finish the final draft of drama essay
Pass - good job taking notes on everything that we discussed in class, as well as what we have gotten on handouts. I think that it will be very helpful when studying Hamlet to be able to come back to this and read everything that we learned in class. Like the rest of your notes, please add some links and try to connect things to what else we have learned. Because of how well you took the notes on Hamlet though and the examples you used for the multiple choice questions, pass.
답글삭제Jae, great entry! You thoroughly, accurately, and concisely summarized the core concepts covered in class, and your organization is awesome. Moreover, you did a great job showing the connections between this material and your own experiences. Although I think you could’ve done more to show connections between the material and other academic subjects and current events and to show the relationships among ideas. Moreover, you didn’t comment on the relationship between new material and older material, nor did you show the homework for the period discussed. Thus unfortunately, I’m going to have to give you a fail for not including those required materials.
답글삭제Pass. Really in depth and thorough notes, Jae. You made some really good connections, and fulfilled all other criteria. You could have mentioned the homework, but overall a good job.
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