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?
A writer's choice of words
What is diction?
(The word diction should never appear in your essays without an adjective in front of it.)
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 7:45 a.m. on May 6?
This is approximately how long you should spend on each passage in the multiple choice section.
What is 12-15 minutes?
The equivalent to a narrator in poetry
What is the speaker?
"God is a DJ, life is a dance floor, love is a rhythm" contains examples of this literary device.
What is metaphor?
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?
A poem that tells a story
What is narrative?
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past" builds a melancholy one.
What is a tone?
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?
This is the number of passages as well as the types of passages that can be found on the multiple choice section of the exam.
What is 5 passages--2 poetry, 2 prose, and one that can be either?
A poem with an open structure
What is free verse?
"Fall had barely touched the full splendor of the trees, and during the height of the day the sun briefly regained its summertime power" is an example of this literary device.
What is personification?
The main focus of the literary analysis essay (FRQ3) is to analyze this.
What is interpretation or theme?
This is the amount of commentary you should have for each piece of evidence in your essay.
What is 3 sentences?
Multiple choice is worth this much of the total exam score.
What is 45%?
Look for _________ in things like tone, speaker, setting, and point of view which can be a signal of theme.
What is shift?
A term that describes an author placing two contrasting elements--ideas, characters, scenes, or images--side by side to highlight their differences.
What is juxtaposition?
Approximately how much time do you have to write each of the essays on the exam?
What is 40 minutes?
(This includes reading time, so for FRQ1 and FRQ2, it is really 10 minutes to read and 30 minutes to write.)
The FRQs (three total essays) are worth this much of the total exam score.
55%