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MEMORIES
100
a fact-based, impersonal presentation of events or characters
What is Objective?
100
What you must understand before you begin planning or writing any essay
What is the Assignment Task (AT)?
100
At least ONE of these will appear in the synthesis section of the exam
What is a Visual Source?
100
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good _______, must be in want of a _____.”
What is a fortune and a wife? “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
100
What Meena Alexander thinks she is a "mass of" -- she even looks up the definition of the word.
What is a fault?
200
a figure of speech composed of contradictory words or phrases, such as “wise fool,” bitter-sweet, “pretty ugly,” “jumbo shrimp,” “cold fire”
What is oxymoron?
200
TWO
What is the number of body paragraphs you must successfully develop on each essay?
200
The best-selling book written in the last 20 years.
What is Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone?
200
"_______, thy name is woman!" -- Hamlet
What is frailty? "Frailty, thy name is woman!"
200
The word that concludes this sentence: "I always concluded that, lonely or not, it was still free from the curse of ______." --- Beryl Markham
What is "boredom"? "I always concluded that, lonely or not, it was still free from the curse of boredom."
300
the technique of arranging words, phrases, clauses, or larger structures by placing them side by side and making them similar in form
What is Parallelism or Parallel Structure?
300
AP exam experts suggest first deciphering a text's _____ before doing anything else.
What is meaning?
300
The best-selling book of all time that was originally written in English.
What is A Tale of Two Cities?
300
"Though this be madness, yet there is _____ in't."
What is method? "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't."
300
The place Debra Marquart grows up -- and then writes about in an AP prompt.
What is North Dakota?
400
a biased, personal presentation of events and characters, influenced by the author’s feelings and opinions
What is Subjective?
400
AP exam experts say that after you decipher a text's meaning, you can then search for _______.
What is Strategies and Techniques?
400
The year Hamlet was first performed.
What is 1602?
400
“I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from ____ ____ ____. Why was that so very difficult?” -- from Demian
What is "my true self"? “I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?”
400
The words to complete this quotation from Ophelia: "Lord, we know what we are, but know not ____ ____ ____ ____."
What is "what we may be." "Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be."
500
the opposite of exaggeration. It is a technique for developing irony and/or humor where one writes or says less than intended.
What is Understatement
500
Type 3 essays demand that you _________.
What is generate your own evidence?
500
The year Pride and Prejudice was published
What is 1813?
500
The first line of Slaughterhouse Five.
What is "All this happened, more or less"?
500
The place on the Florida-Georgia border depicted by two different writers.
What is the Okefenokee Swamp?