Logistics
Name the three different types of FRQs.
Poetry, prose, and open
An unexpected twist or contrast between what happens and what was intended or expected to happen. It involves dialogue and situations, and it can be intentional or unplanned. There are three types.
Irony: dramatic, situational, verbal
A figure of speech that compares two different things by indicating one is the other.
Example:
Fame is a bee.
It has a song—
It has a sting—
Ah, too, it has a wing.
Metaphor
Name a complex and dynamic character from any novel from this year. What makes them complex and dynamic?
Answers may vary.
A poem that has seven stanzas (six sestets and one tercet) and six repeating end words that follow a specific pattern throughout the poem.
Sestina
What is the date and time of your AP Lit Exam?
May 6th at 8 am
A figure of speech where something is referred to by the name of something closely associated with it.
(i.e. "the crown" for the royal power)
The repetition of similar vowel sounds in syllables within the same or neighboring words
How does the symbol of water impact the novel Beloved throughout its entirety?
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The time and place of a literary work, and the three different ways it can be represented.
Setting-- temporal (time-specific), spatial, environmental
(Bonus-- discuss the significance of each of these settings in various pieces of work)
How many FRQs are on the test?
3
How we identify the ends of lines of poetry:
punctuation at the end of a line of poetry, so as to stop thought or phrase
OR no punctuation between lines of poetry, so one line moves into the next
End-stopped lines and enjambment
A clash between opposing forces in a literary work, such as man vs. man; man vs. nature; man vs. God; man vs. self.
Conflict
Name a set of foil characters from a text you have read.
Nora and Christine Lind, Mr. Darcy and Mr. Wickham, etc.
An indirect reference (biblical, historical, etc.) contained in a work.
Allusion
In the support of the thesis and development of the line of reasoning, the writer demonstrates a mature control of language and/ or the ability to connect the text and prompt to a broader context, perspective, or argument.
Sophisication
A work that functions on a symbolic level.
Allegory
Name the literary period in which Henrik Ibsen's A Doll House.
Realism
A type of literature that explores narratives by and about characters who inhabit and experience their reality differently from what we term the objective world. Writers who are frequently placed in this category include Gabriel García Márquez, Günter Grass, and Isabel Allende.
Magical Realism
How long is the total exam?
a. MC (1 hour); FRQs (2 hours)
b. MC (1 hour); FRQs (3 hours)
c. MC (2 hours); FRQs (2 hours)
A. MC (1 hour) ; FRQs (2 hours)
3 hours total!
A pause in the middle of a line of poetry, often signified by punctuation.
Caesura
The conclusion or tying up of loose ends in a literary work; the resolution of the conflict and plot (it's a French term!)
The denouement
Choose a novel for this FRQ3 prompt:
Some novels depict a conflict between a parent (or a parental figure) and a son or daughter. Either from your own reading or from the list below, choose a work of fiction in which this type of conflict exists. Then, in a well-written essay, analyze how the conflict contributes to an interpretation of the work as a whole. Do not merely summarize the plot.
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A figure of speech that gives human attributes to unhuman things or ideas.
Personification