<p>^ Just a number is not so bad. If they gave a raw score, everyone would have to have the highest. The way it is now, you only need a five.</p>
<p>Yeah the second essay prompt was a little odd, and I BSed it a bit. It didn't help that I had looked at #3 and was feeling panicked. I thought #1 was really easy though. It had simple poems and some fairly clear differences. I didn't talk about the authors because a) I didn't have room and b) I have forgotten details about Keats. Was he the always sick one, who had TB?</p>
<p>For #3 I did not use DoaS, you are right. I guess I could have used Charley. I instantly regret my panic for missing that (and I recognized it right when you mentioned the work. Sad). I suppose that's what happens when you have Lit first semester and no English classes during the second. I used 1984 BTW.</p>
<p>WOW the first PASSAGE with L***E/Death , i read the poem in class 2 days ago...it was amazing didnt even need to look at the poem again to answer the questions. The MC was crazy easy compared to AP Language, the essays were ok....i thought the 2nd one with the indian guy was stupid due to the fact that he didnt speak once in the passage it was all 3rd person.</p>
<p>I used As I Lay Dying for the 3rd prompt. Jewel and Darl.</p>
<p>For the second prompt I completely BSed about authorial intrustion and an overbearing narrator haha</p>
<p>Overall I thought it was surprisingly easy, and I definitely went into this exam with more confidence than I had for AP Lang last year. </p>
<p>Multiple Choice was pretty easy for me except for a few. I think I skipped 1-2 questions. Hadn't read any of the poems or passages before but they were all pretty easy to understand. </p>
<p>Poetry Response: At the time I thought I did pretty well but now I'm not sure... I think I may have misinterpreted them because I thought they were both saying the same thing. Anyways I got lots of poetry terms in there. </p>
<p>Prose Response: I actually enjoyed this passage and thought it was fairly easy to respond to. I talked about the sentence structures mirroring his developing language skills and identified a metaphor.</p>
<p>Free Response: I used Streetcar- Stanley/Blanche. Pretty much I rocked this essay. I spent all last night reviewing books I had read for my AP Lit course this year (Sound and the Fury, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Death of a Salesman, Crying of Lot 49, Jasmine, a few others...) and then ended up not even using a book I read for this class. Oh well.</p>
<p>i wrote about ralph and jack from lord of the flies for #3 and then realized a little too late that the foil character is supposed to be a minor character...to what extent do you guys think that I'll be penalized for this?</p>
<p>I flipped immediately to the open-ended question as soon as I opened the green insert and mentally cheered when I realized that I had answered the exact same question in class just a few months ago. I think being relieved that I wasn't going to bomb it got me excited enough for the first two questions that I did fairly decently. Anyway, was I the only one who saw the last prompt and thought Othello? Desdemona and Emilia - quintessence of foil characters :)</p>
<p>lakshmi--</p>
<p>exact same problem. Stanley/Blanche... Stanley is not really a minor character??</p>
<p>Hey, for the 1st poem in the 1st essay question, was the guy talking about love? I think I got the meaning of it wrong...:S</p>
<p>Do you think Candide and Martin is okay?</p>
<p>IMO it was about death. I talked about Erickson's Ego intergrity vs Ego dispair. I sure hope the AP readers took psych.</p>
<p>Would you say Jewel is a minor character? He has substantially less chapters than Darl.</p>
<p>would i get credits off from misspelling foil character's name?
(stradlater-> stadler)</p>
<p>for the third prompt i used Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and wrote about the Invisible Man's grandfather.. that one was definitely my best</p>
<p>Ahhhh, I felt great after that Lit test! MC was cake. Essays were easy, but a little tiring to write. The first essay question about the two poems took me a while though, but I got through it :) I wrote about The Awakening for the third essay.</p>
<p>lol my teacher does this thing where she has us read past prompts and do quick 5 minute outlines for them. One of those poems was the keats poem from prompt 1. Didn't do me any good though, since I didn't do the assignment.</p>
<p>I was RAPED by the MC. That one poem about mikeangelo and rafael with 2 pages was a killer, and one other passage was pretty tough too. The first and last ones were pretty easy, though.</p>
<p>Essays were easy as hell. Poem was easy to compare/explicate, prose easy to understand and analyze (thank GOD it was a modern work, not one of those from the renaissance), and the Kite Runner fit perfectly with the last prompt.</p>
<p>Yeah man that poem killed me too...</p>
<p>What's with the guy wanting to be Rafael :S
I actually thought the prose essay was the hardest...cause there was barely anything to write about...I mean, there IS no speech...how do you write about no speech?</p>
<p>Didn't need to.. I incorporated speech and tone as one of my things.. I did viewpoint and sentence structure as my other ones. I like essays much better than MC.</p>
<p>And seriously dude, that passage was gay.. I wish I had more time to read over it and actually understand it.. but no, we only get 60 minutes.</p>
<p>Yeah :(</p>
<p>60 minutes screwed me over too...I had 6 minutes left for my last passage, so I had to skip 3 questions at the end. If only I had an extra 5 minutes...just 5...</p>
<p>Damn, I forgot to talk about tone and sentence structure...I think I blew the 2nd essay. </p>
<p>I think I did fairly well on the 1st and 3rd essays though. I used macbeth for the 3rd essay...and after reading some posts, I guess no one thought of using macbeth??? I thought it was kind of obvious.</p>
<p>Those who used streetcar named desire...a few of my friends used staneley as the foil...and come to think of it....it does work. If you use blanche as the main character then you can talk about the diction of stanley and what not to show the illumination to the work.</p>
<p>By the way, does anyone know how long each essay is supposed to be?</p>
<p>I wrote 3 pages for one, 2 pages for the other 2, single spaced (should it be double spaced?).</p>