<p>my teacher advised us quite literally to write as much as humanly possible, so i just tried to fill up every last page. missed it by like 3 or 4 :)</p>
<p>I don't know if they'd necessarily be more lenient, but my teacher told me that in an AP seminar, the graders told her that after reading the same thing over and over and over for hours, and then they see something that's different, it catches their attention which could mean they get a good score, obviously depending on their writing/ideas.</p>
<p>our teacher told us that if they don't know the book, they just hand it to someone who does.</p>
<p>Personally loved the exam - thinking 5, used Catch 22 for the last essay
But back to studying for the trifecta of science</p>
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A work is said to have literary merit (to be a work of art) if it is a work of quality, that is if it has some aesthetic value.
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<p>^Wikipedia^</p>
<p>ammeg: Harry Potter has literary merit... At least in my opinion...</p>
<p>-The Literary Coot66</p>
<p>PS I am 95% kidding...</p>
<p>I don't know if they'd necessarily be more lenient, but my teacher told me that in an AP seminar, the graders told her that after reading the same thing over and over and over for hours, and then they see something that's different, it catches their attention which could mean they get a good score, obviously depending on their writing/ideas.</p>
<p>Maybe this will help with my first two, because I write really creative BS that still contains some meaning. I just think it would be boring as hell to read essay after essay of people paraphrasing the passage(which I imagine they get a lot of)</p>
<p>Coot- No way. It's not complex enough. Books of literary merit are too advanced for young kids. An 8-year-old could easily read Harry Potter and understand everything. There's no deeper meaning, it's purely for entertainment and doesn't have a message. And I don't think Harry Potter is a good example of either quality or aethetic value. Certainly not the latter.</p>
<p>And Wikipedia is not a source reliable enough to base an arguement off of, either.</p>
<p>LOL. You're probably right. I was just toying with the idea; I wasn't going to do it unless I knew I totally screwed up on the M/C. But you know what I find funny? That there's a Sparknotes Study Guide for H.P.! Always thought Sparknotes was a sure measure of literary merit!</p>
<p>-The Toying Coot66</p>
<p>is it bad that i ysed anne frank for number 3?</p>
<p>Harry Potter is a great series, but not fit for the AP exam at all in my opinion. What's there to analyze? lol.</p>
<p>Found an article on the book. </p>
<p>The students have one question on the test that allows them to choose a work of "literary merit." Suggestions include books such as "Middlemarch" and "Oedipus Rex." No Harry Potter book is on the list. Packer said he finds the books "simplistic."</p>
<h2>However, he said, the test is not designed to gauge whether students can define a work of literary merit. It's about developing the ability to analyze literature effectively. "If a student uses a Harry Potter novel and writes a powerful essay, I don't have a problem with it," he said.</h2>
<p>NOT literary merit, but apparently the judges don't care if you don't know what literary merit means if you can write a good essay. I wouldn't imagine people who think Harry Potter is a work of literary merit can write extremely good essays, though.</p>
<p>Its better than my friends last resort idea...</p>
<p>Make up a book called the Adventures of John Smith(or whatever your name is) that fits the prompt perfectly, better than a complete blank I guess</p>
<p>They're not allowed to grade the essay unless they've read the book, so that wouldn't work.</p>
<p>I felt pretty confident about this one. Not as easy as AP Gov but not nearly as horrible as the Calc AB yesterday. MC was quite easy, though the poem (last section) really threw me off for some reason.</p>
<p>FRQ was very nice, though I felt like I was rambling in the second one. Third essay was great, though I basically completely BS'd it. I used Beloved, which we had fortunately just finished reading a week before the AP ... Hoping for a 4 at least!</p>
<p>someone pleae tell me if its ok that i used anne frank for essay 3</p>
<p>i used the age of innocence as my 3rd book...ironically i was watching innocence movie yesterday nite...</p>
<p>I don't know if you're allowed to use nonfiction</p>
<p>I might be wrong but I think literature means that it at least somewhat fictitious</p>
<p>I didn't think it was too bad. I was kind of worried about organization for the essays but they actually fit quite easily into paragraphs. And Frankenstein worked perfectly for the last essay.</p>
<p>I thought the exam was a pleasant surprise...after taking the Sparknotes AP literature diagnostic test last night, I thought I was in for the worst, but it wasn't that bad...The last poem was challenging. It was hard to tell if the author was being serious/sarcastic in the middle of the poem, and your interpretation of this accounted for a few of the multiple choice questions.
The FR was pretty simple. Better than pink flamingos. For #3 on the free response, my class followed a general pattern of...
girls: used wuthering heights
guys: used moby dick
I debated between using moby dick or tess of the d'urbervilles. both were perfect matches for the prompt. i ultimately chose tess because i knew more about the novel and it's the more interesting piece.
I'm sure the curve will be pretty harsh though.</p>