AP English Lit anyone???

<p>Who's excited about it? I am... well thats b/c A. I should do well on it and B. next week we are haveing a "literary bake-off" where we have to bake something that has to do with a novel we have read this year!</p>

<p>Well I guess thats all... good luck to everyone!</p>

<p>hey...since you seem to think you will do well...do you have any suggestions for the MC? read and then answer or read and answer at the same time? how are you going to pace yourself?</p>

<p>I'm excited, but that's just because on the open-ended, I get to write on MY FAVORITE BOOK IN THE WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD!!!!!! The weird thing is that it fits for almost every single question, and the ones that it doesn't, I get to write about Pride and Prejudice!</p>

<p>And for the MC--I read the questions first and mark the lines/words that I'm supposed to be looking at, and then I read the passage, paying careful attention to those lines, and then I answer the questions. It worked for Lang. :)</p>

<p>Oh, and my fav book is the The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien--everyone should go read it. </p>

<p>And as far as pacing, I take approx 10-12 minutes for every passage, and I normally end up with about 3-4 minutes left.</p>

<p>yeah lang was nice because it had prose...but the poetry in some of the review books is obscure</p>

<p>Sometimes it can be, but the way I look at it is if you think that the poem was easy, you probably missed something. Poetry is hard though, I don't like it.</p>

<p>aviatrix10, i had a question...do you know where in the following lines onomatopoeia is used (and it is in there according to the review book although I am having some difficulty pinpointing it):</p>

<p>And there he saw Troy like a burial ground With tumbled walls for tombs, the smooth sward wrinkled/ As Time's last waved had long since passsed that way. /The sky, the sea, Mount Ida and the islands, /No sail from edge to edge, the Greeks clean gone. /They streched him on a rock and wrenched his limbs Asking: "Where is the treasure?" till he died.</p>

<p>hmm....strange. The only thing that sticks out as remotely something weird (which may or may not be onomatopoeia, I don't know) is the "smooth sward wrinkled." Everything else seems pretty mundane and normal, I don't know, though if that counts as onomatopeoia. That's a weird one, I told you I didn't like poetry!!! :)</p>

<p>"wrinkled" and "wrenched"</p>

<p>I just think of some kind of sound effect when I read those words.</p>

<p>Yeah, I was thinking of wrinkled...i hadn't thought of wrenched, though. But now that I think of it, it does sort of seem like onomato..</p>

<p>having to make a choice, I agreed with avatrix10 because wrinkled and wrenched are more physical descriptions (adjs) but upon pondering some more...that still is a messed up question</p>

<p>That is messed up...hopefully there won't be one like that on Thursday!</p>

<p>Yeah..last year a similar thing happened to me in lang...all the review book questions were hard but then when i took a real practice test the MC were easy. It is probably because the collegeboard spends time testing and reviewing their questions whereas the reviewbook company makes half-baked questions to make money quickly.</p>

<p>Makes sense. I wouldn't worry about it, I only study CB questions, not PR and other review books...I get too worried about it and I think that I'm going to die, when I'm actually doing okay!</p>

<p>FOr the multiple choice I read question first, then read the passage, then answer the questions. I go through and do all of the easier ones first then work through the harder ones. I think the big thing with the MC is to pace yourself, dont get caught up on one b/c then you won't have time to answer some of the ones you definitely know.</p>

<p>Honestly, just be confident and dont freak yourself out.</p>

<p>"Oh, and my fav book is the The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien--everyone should go read it." </p>

<p>GREAT book, I agree that everyone should read it. But, someone in my class asked my teacher if we could write about it for the open-ended question, and he said something like it's not considered a classic yet. He said to not write about it, but that we could write about another book and refer to it if it has anything to do with the question.</p>

<p>The Things They Carried..heck yes! </p>

<p>It doesn't have to be a classic; it just has to be considered Literature. Based on the definition below, you're going to have a hard time convincing me that The Things They Carried isn't. </p>

<p>From wikipedia:</p>

<p>"The word "literature" as a common noun can refer to any form of writing, such as essays; "Literature" as a proper noun refers to a whole body of literary work, often relating to a specific culture.</p>

<p>"Literature", with emphasis on the uppercase L, is a subset of the more general "literature". "Literature" refers to written work of exceptional intellectual calibre, whereas "literature" can be anything written.</p>

<p>Accordingly, War and Peace by Tolstoy is "Literature" (singular) (as well as "literature"). Consequently, a novel by Danielle Steele will be included in "literature" but not in "Literature", since most people would not deem the books to be sufficiently intellectual or meaningful.</p>

<p>What is intellectual or meaningful, though, is subjective and often controversial. Many would argue about what marks a work as "Literature", such as whether or not Neil Gaiman's The Sandman, Peter Straub's lost boy lost girl, or Ronald Damien Malfi's The Fall of Never are considered Literature."</p>

<p>You know what book can be used for sooo many things... The great Gatsby. We did this thing in my class last week called "speed dating" where my teacher took the prompts from the last 9 AP exams and gave one to each person in my class. We had to write out a solid thesis and outline the essay in 8 minutes... then 7... then 6... then 5. Five was the minimum amount of time but it was a great activity b/c we reviewed a ton of books and proved to ourselfs that it is possible to write a good essay on these freakin exams</p>

<p>The Things They Carried has been on the recommended list of books (you know, the one after the open-ended question) like three times already. So I'm guessing if they say you can write on it, then it's okay. Plus, it's the greatest book ever!!!!!</p>

<p>Going After Cacciato has been approved by CB too, if anyone has read that one yet!!!!</p>