Multiple Choice
How much time you have for the Multiple Choice part of the exam.
What is 60 minutes?
When a poem presents conflicting ideas, tensions, or layered meanings that resist a single interpretation, it demonstrates this quality valued in high-scoring essays.
What is a sophistication?
Three types of essays on the exam.
What are Poetry Analysis, Prose Analysis, and Open Ended/Literary Analysis?
How does Medea kill Jason's new bride?
What is kills her with a poisoned gift (robe/crown)?
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?
Oedipus Rex: What earlier crime in Thebes sets the entire plague and investigation in motion?
What is the murder of King Laius?
The number of questions you can expect to have on the AP Lit multiple choice exam.
What is 55?
When a poet develops a comparison across multiple lines or the entire poem to deepen meaning, they are using this technique.
What is an extended metaphor?
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!)
Which family member does the creature kill that leads to Justine’s execution?
William
What are the two different text types you will see on the multiple-choice section of the exam?
Poetry & Prose
This rhetorical device places contrasting ideas in close proximity to highlight tension within a text.
What is antithesis?
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?
Macbeth: After Duncan’s murder goes off-plan, what specifically does Lady Macbeth do to ensure the blame is directed away from her husband?
What is take the daggers back, smear the guards with Duncan’s blood, and leave the weapons beside them?
Multiple choice is worth this much of the total exam score.
What is 45%?
A _________ 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?
wild and woolly, threatening throngs
What is alliteration?
How much total time do you have to write the essays on the exam?
What is 120 minutes?
Song of Solomon: What physical location does Milkman’s search for his family history ultimately lead him to?
What is Shalimar, Virginia?