Multiple Choice
How much time you have for the Multiple Choice part of the exam.
What is 60 minutes?
A group of lines in verse (analogous in function to the paragraph in prose)
What is a stanza?
The amount of time you have to write each essay
What is 40 minutes (or 120 total)
The date and time of the AP Lit Exam
What is 8 a.m. on May 6th?
POE is not just a famous American writer but a useful acronym & strategy for answering multiple choice questions meaning this.
What is Process of Elimination?
The equivalent to a narrator in poetry
What is the speaker?
Swoosh! Zap! Zoom! Boom!
What is onomatopoeia?
The ___________ can serve as a an introduction to each essay if written well.
What is the thesis?
TAG is an acronym meaning this
What is Title, Author, Genre?
The number of questions you can expect to have on the AP Lit multiple choice exam.
What is 55?
Good author's give a ______.
What is shift?
Jumbo Shrimp or Bitter Sweet
Oxymoron
Poetry Analysis and Prose Analysis BOTH require you to analyze multiple of these in your essays.
Literary devices, techniques, and elements (you have to analyze multiple devices to score a 4 on the rubric!)
The three parts/colors of the thesis template are
What are concrete (red) + concrete & abstract blended (green) + universal statement (blue) = thesis
If you have no idea or find yourself running out of time, it is best practice to _______________ rather than leave the questions unanswered.
What is guess?
What is attitude?
Placing two or more concepts, places, characters, or their actions close together for the purpose of comparison or contrast
What is juxtaposition?
The main focus of the literary argument is to analyze
What is theme or MOWAW?
The 4 tips, suggestions, and pointers for writing a successful FRQ 1 Poetry Essay are (you have to get all 4!)
1. Focus on what you know!
2. Look for shift!
3. Zoom in & zoom out!
4. Use the end of the poem for your conclusion!
Multiple choice is worth this much of the total exam score.
What is 45%?
This or _________ happens in poetry and can occur in things like tone, speaker, setting, Point of View, etc. and can be a signal of theme.
What is shift?
The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.
What is enjambment?
The three scoring criteria on the AP Lit Essay Rubrics
Thesis, Evidence & Commentary, and Sophistication
The 5 tips, suggestions, or pointers for writing a successful FRQ 2 Prose Analysis Essay are (you have to name all 5 correctly!)
1. Turn the prompt into a question
2. Use thesis as intro
3. Organize body paragraphs with chronological phrasing and include a "why" factor
4. Use Cause & Effect language in body paragraphs for evidence & commentary
5. Make the conclusion universal