AP Test
The date and time of the AP English Literature and Composition online Exam
What is May 4th 1st thing in the morning?
A literary device in which someone speaks to an absent person or object that cannot speak back
what is an apostrophe?
Poem that has 14 lines, written in iambic pentameter, and has a rhyme scheme (2 types)
What is a sonnet?
Coming of age novel about a man seeking redemption for childhood mistakes
What is Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner?
The first step in analyzing a piece of prose or a poem should be to chunk the text into manageable sections according to the _____________ that occur in tone and/or meaning
What are shifts?
To get above a 2 on evidence and commentary, you must establish and carry through with a ____________________ in your analysis
What is a line of reasoning?
Words placed together to create beautiful, flowing sounds
what is a euphony?
Poetry about rural subjects and aspects of life in the countryside among shepherds, cowherds and other farm workers that are often romanticized
What is pastoral poetry?
A Shakespearean tragedy based off of the main characters ill-advised decisions
What is Othello?
Definition of "in media res"
What is a story that starts in the middle of a plot?
What are the two sections of the AP exam and how much time do you have to complete them?
MC = 60 minutes
Essays (3) = 120 minutes
Deliberate repetition of consonant sounds within words (not at the beginning)
what is consonance?
A primordial image, character, or pattern of circumstances that recurs throughout literature and thought consistently enough to be considered a universal concept or situation.
What is an archetype?
A novella written to criticize the "Cult of Domesticity" and prescribed women's roles in turn of the century America.
What is The Awakening?
Simile, metaphor, metonymy and synecdoche are all types of
What are comparisons?
The three types of essays on the exam
Q1 = poetry Q2=prose Q3 = open-ended, literary argument
Figurative language in which a part = a whole or vice versa (the head of cattle, the field hands)
What is synecdoche?
A highly complex and elaborate comparison that is stretched through a stanza or poem (John Donne's Valediction)
What is a conceit?
A tragic drama that explores the idea that madness can result from unresolved trauma
What is Tennessee Williams' Streetcar Named Desire?
Paradox, oxymoron, antithesis and juxtapositions are all types of
What are contrasts?
A difference between a 3 & a 4 on evidence and commentary is partially based on the number of literary techniques you effectively analyze. Explain
for a 4 you have to handle multiple
A literary device in which a statement seems contradictory, but upon closer examination, reveals a universal truth
What is a paradox?
The shift in a sonnet is called the ______________ and in an Italian sonnet usually occurs at line _______.
What is volta and line 9?
A southern gothic tale of a woman who represents the death of the Old South as she refuses to progress with the times and holds on to decaying sentiments.
What is A Rose for Emily?
Identifying and exploring complexities or tensions within the selected work. 2. Illuminating the student’s interpretation by situating it within a broader context. 3. Accounting for alternative interpretations of the text. 4. Employing a style that is consistently vivid and persuasive. All these are ways to get what?
What is the sophistication point?