AP Test
This is the subject of the FIRST essay on the AP Lit exam.
What is poetry?
A line of poetry consisting of 5 pairs unstressed and stressed syllables is called this.
What is iambic pentameter?
This is Kwang Meng's (and his father's) job in If We Dream Too Long
What is clerk (at a shipping firm)?
If We Dream Too Long
Who is Goh Poh Seng?
These are the three questions that we need to answer in a literary thesis statement.
What are: What is a text doing? How is it doing it? And why does it matter?
There are this many questions on the MCQ section of the AP Lit test.
What is 55?
William Wordsworth: “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in _________.”
What is tranquility?
She stretches her young body in the final sentence of The Metamorphosis.
Who is Grete?
Waiting for Godot
Who is Samuel Beckett?
Kwang Meng and his friends take a trip from Singapore to this country in If We Dream Too Long.
What is Malaysia?
I addition to 1 point for a thesis and 4 points for evidence and commentary, 1 point on the AP essays is awarded for this.
What is "sophistication?"
The line, "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore," offers an example of this literary device.
What is a simile?
This form of narration is used in “The Garden Party” in passage like: “Away Laura flew, still holding her piece of bread-and-butter. It's so delicious to have an excuse for eating out of doors, and besides, she loved having to arrange things; she always felt she could do it so much better than anybody else.” (Be as specific as possible!)
What is third-person limited perspective?
Jane Eyre
Who is Charlotte Brontë?
This is the term used to describe the events of a literary text as they are presented to the reader (not necessarily in chronological order)
What is plot?
The AP Lit tests starts at this time on Wednesday, May 7th.
What is 7:45AM?
In poetry, the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line is called this.
What is enjambment?
This literary term, meaning “a moment of sudden revelation or insight,” is exemplified by the end of Jame’s Joyce’s story “Araby”: “Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.”
What is epiphany?
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? (Sonnet 18)
Who is William Shakespeare?
“A _______ is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself; in appropriate and pleasurable language;… in a dramatic rather than narrative form; with incidents arousing pity and fear” (Aristotle, Poetics).
What is tragedy?
This is the subject of the THIRD essay on the AP Lit exam.
What is an prompt with a major literary theme (no text)?
My name is _______ , King of Kings; / Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Who is Ozymandias?
This is the name of the protagonist of Alice Walker’s “The Flowers.”
What is Myop?
Who is Katherine Mansfield?
This grammatical element appears 51 times in Jamaica Kincaid's very short story "Girl."
What is a semicolon?