Literary Devices
Gives human-like qualities to an inanimate object or animal
What is personification
The length of time for the multiple-choice section of the AP Literature exam
What is 1 hour?
The length of time for the FRQ section of the AP Literature exam.
What is 2 hours?
You ask for this before the test begins.
What is scrap paper and something to write with.
A theme of this text is fate vs. free will
What is Macbeth?
An author's use of vivid, descriptive language
What is imagery
The number of passages in the MC section of the AP Literature exam
What is 55?
The number of passages in the FRQ section of the AP Literature exam.
What is three?
What is preview all of the text types.
This is a foundational text in its genre.
What is 1984?
An object or idea repeated throughout a novel
What is a motif
The length of time you should spend on each passage.
What is the number of questions in that section?
The three different prompts on the FRQ section of the AP Literature exam.
What is prompt 1: poetry, prompt 2: short fiction, prompt 3: literary argument?
The passage you should start with on the MCQ section and why.
The passage that is the easiest. You do not want to waste time on something difficult and run out of time for the easier passages.
This text demonstrates the adverse effects of whiteness.
What is The Bluest Eye?
A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for effect.
What is hyperbole?
The steps you should take when working on a MCQ passage.
1. Skim the text to get a basic understanding. 2. Read the passage and the questions at the same time. 3. Review the answer choices and use the process of elimination to determine the correct answer.
The statement that every FRQ response should include.
What is a theme?
What to do within the last five minutes of the MCQ section.
What is make sure that you have an answer for each MCQ question?
The texts we've read where the narrator(s) is/are unrealiable
The Bluest Eye and 1984.
A contradiction between appearance and reality, expectation and outcome, or meaning and intention
What is irony?
The narrative techniques that is best illustrated when a narrator deliberately withholds key information from the reader to create dramatic irony and force readers to infer character motivations?
A) Free indirect discourse
B) Unreliable narration
C) Stream of consciousness
D) Metafiction
What is B), unreliable narration?
The three steps to writing a strong thesis statement on FRQ 3.
1. Answer the prompt (include author/title). 2. Connect the prompt to an abstract concept/big idea of the text. 3. Write a theme statement that is a unique interpretation of the text.
The steps to write a strong conclusion
What is:
1. Restate the thesis in fresh language (do not copy verbatim).
2. Synthesize: show how evidence from body paragraphs connects to the thesis.
3. Broaden significance: briefly explain the literary or thematic importance (implication for reading the work, author’s purpose, human experience).
4. End with a purposeful final sentence
The authors and titles of the novels/plays we've read this year.
Macbeth, Shakespeare
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
1984, George Orwell