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?
Three types of essays on the exam.
What are Poetry Analysis, Prose Analysis, and Literary Analysis?
The date and time of the AP Lit Exam
What is 8 a.m. on May 4th?
POE is not just a famous American writer but a useful acronym 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 highest score you can earn on an essay
What is a 6?
The number of questions you can expect to have on the AP Lit multiple choice exam.
What is 55?
The C in TPCASTT
What is connotation?
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 last sentence of the introduction paragraph typically serves this purpose.
What is the thesis statement?
LOTD is another strategy known as
What is Letter of the Day?
The A in TPCASTT
What is attitude?
Placing two or more concepts, places, characters, or their actions together for the purpose of comparison or contrast
The main focus of the literary argument is to analyze
What is theme or MOWAW?
The amount of time you should spend per essay?
What is 40 minutes?
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?
Just how real and true-to-life a narrative or work of fiction seems
What is verisimilitude?
How much total time do you have to write the essays on the exam?
What is 120 minutes?
The FRQs (three total essays) are worth this much of the total exam score.
55%