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AP Literature Exam Multiple-Choice Questions

AP Literature Exam Multiple-Choice Questions. Fifty-sixty questions on four different passages One has fifteen questions Two are prose/Two are poetry British and American literature Chosen from 16th or 17 th centuries Restoration or or 18 th 19 th or 20 th Women and minority writers.

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AP Literature Exam Multiple-Choice Questions

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  1. AP Literature ExamMultiple-Choice Questions • Fifty-sixty questions on four different passages • One has fifteen questions • Two are prose/Two are poetry • British and American literature • Chosen from 16th or 17th centuries • Restoration or or 18th • 19th or 20th • Women and minority writers

  2. AP Literature ExamMultiple-Choice Questions • Beginning with the May 2011 AP Exam administration, there will be a change to the way AP Exams are scored. Total scores on the multiple-choice section will be based on the number of questions answered correctly. Points will no longer be deducted for incorrect answers and, as always, no points will be awarded for unanswered questions.

  3. AP Literature ExamMultiple-Choice Questions • Passages are from familiar writers • Text won’t be familiar probably • Passages are not easy • Passages are self-contained and self-explanatory • Study works that have less modern syntax and diction

  4. Analyzing Poems • 1. What is the dramatic situation? • Who is the speaker? Is the speaker a male or female? • Where is the speaker? • When does this poem take place? • What are the circumstances?

  5. Analyzing Poems • What is the structure of the poem? • What are the parts of the poem and how are they related to each other? • What gives the poem its coherence? • What are the structural divisions of the poem? • Look at punctuation. • Does it ask questions? Develop an argument? Use a series of analogies?

  6. Analyzing Poems • What is the theme of the poem? • What is the point of the poem? • Sometimes it is simple and can be reduced to a single sentence. • Most of the time, the theme is more complex or has different levels.

  7. Analyzing Poems • Are the grammar and meaning clear? • Make sure you understand the meaning of all the words. • Make sure you understand the grammar. • The word order is often skewed.

  8. Analyzing Poems • What are the important images and figures of speech? • Literal sensory objects? • Similes and metaphors? • Is there a pattern in the images? • Repetition? • Discriminate between the literal and figurative.

  9. Analyzing Poems • What are the most important single words used in the poem? • Look at diction. Is it positive? Negative? • Look closely at nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs

  10. Analyzing Poems • What is the tone of the poem? • Tone is the inferred attitude of the author. • Is the tone ironic? • Tone is related to mood or atmosphere.

  11. Analyzing Poems • What literary devices does the poem employ? • Most common are metaphor, simile, and personification • Connect the device to the meaning of the poem.

  12. Analyzing Poems • What is the prosody of the poem? • Rhyme, meter, and sound effects • Of the 13-15 questions asked, only one will ask about metrics. That makes two concerning metrics out of the fifty-five questions.

  13. Dramatic situation Who is speaking Where is she? To whom is the poem addressed? Who is the speaker in lines 5-8? Where does the poem take place? Analyzing Poetry: Types of Questions

  14. Structure How are stanzas 1 and 2 related to stanza 3? What word in line 20 refers to an idea used in lines 5, 10, and 15? Which of the following divisions of the poem best represents its structure? Analyzing Poetry: Types of Questions

  15. Theme Which of the following best sums up the meaning of stanza 2? With which of the following is the poem centrally concerned? The poet rejects the notion of an indifferent universe because. . . Analyzing Poetry: Types of Questions

  16. Grammar and meaning of words Which of the following best defines the word “glass” as it is used in line 9? To which of the following does the word “which” in line 7 refer? The verb “had done” may best be paraphrased as. . . Analyzing Poetry: Types of Questions

  17. Images and figurative language To which of the following does the poet compare his love? The images in lines 3 and 8 come from what area of science? The figure of the rope used in line 7 is used later in the poem in line. . . Analyzing Poetry: Types of Questions

  18. Diction Which of the following words is used to suggest the poet’s dislike of winter The poet’s use of the word “air” in line 8 is to indicate. . . The poet’s delight in the garden is suggested by all of the following words EXCEPT. . . Analyzing Poetry: Types of Questions

  19. Tone, literary devices, and meter The tone of the poem (or stanza) can best be described as. . . Which of the following literary techniques is illustrated by the phrase “murmurous hum and buzz of the hive”? The meter of the last line in each stanza is Analyzing Poetry: Types of Questions

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