<p>ya for the 2nd one i wrote how it was a coming of age kind of passage of rite thing. he had alot of respect for his father but he was transitioning from an adolescent. and i wrote about wuthering heights.... i think gave a plot summary cuz i was had like 15 mins left. ugh.</p>
<p>FRQ online: <a href="http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/prep_free.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/prep_free.html</a></p>
<p>Yeah, haru07, for the last question, I just rewrote the latest essay I had written for my AP Lit class. My argument for that essay was practically identical to what Collegeboard asked for on Question #3, and better yet was that this particular essay scored "the best grade [the teacher had] ever given out in [his] entire career."</p>
<p>Even if Paradise Lost turns out to be not exactly what the graders are looking for because the directions didn't include "epic poem" (incidentally, a lot of people still consider Paradise Lost a "novel"), it was by far my best bet. It was either going to be a wonderful essay on Satan's past in regard to Heaven.. or a very poor argument on The Great Gatsby (which I read over a year ago) or more recent books that really have nothing to do about character history (Pride & Prejudice, Hamlet, Othello, J.B., Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, etc.)</p>
<p>My supports, by the way, were about Hell being similar/a demonic "substitute" for Heaven, Pandaemonium being an attempt to emulate Heaven's riches and hierarchy, and how some interpretations of Paradise Lost say that God Himself is tyrannical, which makes the parallels between the past (Heaven and God) and the present (Hell and Satan) even stronger.</p>
<p>How does Form B work? Who gets it? I used to think it was the make-up version, but apparently it's not.</p>
<p>i dont live in the US, so i get Form B...and the late US people who are doing a make-up get it too.</p>
<p>No, Form B isn't U.S. make-ups. If they were, then Form Bs wouldn't be released so soon/already, as no make-ups have even happened yet. I myself took a make-up for AP Lang last year, and it was certainly not the 2006 Form B I see on the Collegeboard website. In fact, it seems that make-up forms are never released (or they don't want to put in the effort to release them since so little people take them :)).</p>
<p>For the third essay, how much does plot summary hurt? I used Wuthering Heights and showed how past events in Heathcliff's life influenced him to seek revenge, but didn't really talk about "how it contributes to the meaning of the work as a whole" and MOST of my essay was a summary of the novel.</p>
<p>What can I expect for a score?</p>
<p>I think I screwed up my 3rd essay by using Ethan Frome. </p>
<p>I started out the essay with direct imagery quoted from the novel showing how Ethan Frome was physically "smashed up," that he walked like the "jerks of a chain." Then I went on to mention that the smash up was the event that changed Ethan, that resulted from his own inability to articulate his feelings (especially his feelings for Mattie), and the social constraints on his marriage to Zeena. I talked about how Wharton used light and dark imagery to illustrate his quandary - light imagery = Mattie who was like a fire "igniting a cold hearth" and Zeena who had a "puckered throat" and "flat breast." I also gave specific examples of when Ethan didn't articulate his feelings - like when he was left alone with Mattie when Zeena went to the doctor's in Bettsbridge, and when Zeena announced that she was letting go of Mattie. As a result, the only courageous act that Ethan made was the "smash up" which ironically was a cowardly act, for his vision was blurred at that point in time... after all, he was an instrument of fate. So I made the point that the "smash up" was not the only past event that one can consider when looking at Ethan Frome, but one must also consider his inarticulateness and his being a "prisoner for life" in a futile marriage.</p>
<p>I concluded saying that Ethan would never be the engineer that he wanted to be. And this is was my last sentence: "Ethan Frome can be seen at the post office, detached, reticent, 'a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe.'"</p>
<p>The more I think about it, the more I realize that I probably didn't answer the essay question. But I thought that I'd get that out...</p>
<p>I used Lolita for the third essay...and thought that much of the poetry on the exam was easier to interpret than the prose.</p>
<p>Did anyone else here use 1984?</p>
<p>^ nearly all of my class did. I used Frankenstein.</p>
<p>I used a Clockwork Orange for the open essay. I'm not sure it's of appropriate literary merit, but its the only book I thought would work that I enjoyed. Anyone else use it or consider using it?</p>
<p>i'm reading it right now, and would have loved to use it but i'm only like halfway through. as far as literary merit, it's a very highly regarded book, but i think it's rather visceral subject matter has kept it out of the mainstream. so far it's one of my favorite books even though i'm only like halfway through.</p>
<p>for the third one, i did A Tale of Two Cities, and talked about how Dr. Manette's past (his emprisonment by Darnay's family) affected his relationship with Lucy and her love for Darnay; how he had to let go what occured in the past in order to preserve both his daughter's and his own future</p>
<p>i sware I'm like the only person in the entire universe who chose that book lol</p>
<p>.... You people make me worried...!!!</p>
<p>Were we supposed to talk about literary devices for the third essay (as Jenz was talking about)???... and Is a plot summary REALLY bad for that one???...</p>
<p>That essay's going to be the difference between a 5 and a 4 for me!</p>
<p>tapedDuck, I don't think we had to mention devices. And I think I would've been better off using Crime and Punishment. Bah... oh well.</p>
<p>AP Literature test was easy.</p>
<p>for the third, i'm pretty sure you are NOT supposed to try to quote or mention narrative technique. that's what the other two essays are for. the third is strictly thematic analysis, the other two are stylistic. my teacher is a current ap reader and table leader and told us NOT to do that.</p>
<p>i disagree with the comment above.</p>
<p>what if those narrative techniques contribute to the meaning/development/theme of the novel? and the prompt did not specifically prohibit anything, so it's really unfair for the ap graders to mark down students for using literary devices (it seems ridiculous to do so).</p>
<p>Its literary analysis. You don't have the work you wrote about readily at your disposal, so you can't cite specific literary techniques. The third essay is about the overall theme and meaning, not the meaning of an isolated passage.</p>