<p>I’m aiming for a 3…but it doesn’t really matter because I’m an Engineering major.</p>
<p>People on this forum freak out so much… If you can speak English you’ll get a 4. If you can speak English well you’ll get a 5.</p>
<p>I’m sure lots of you have found these already, but in case anyone would find them useful: here are ALL the outside novel questions from 1970-2009: [Open-ended</a> Questions for Advanced Placement Literature, 1970-2008](<a href=“http://homepage.mac.com/mseffie/AP/APOpenQuestions.html]Open-ended”>http://homepage.mac.com/mseffie/AP/APOpenQuestions.html)</p>
<p>^“People on this forum freak out so much… If you can speak English you’ll get a 4. If you can speak English well you’ll get a 5.”</p>
<p>Totally gonna keep that in mind XD!!</p>
<p>I wish getting a 5 was that simple, but I just don’t understand poetry</p>
<p>Me too. It’s because we’re Asian. I find that it helps reading poetry from right to left.</p>
<p>^are you being sarcastic? XD
I’m Asian and I don’t think poetry is THAT bad…</p>
<p>What novels are you guys looking over for tomorrow?
I’m going with Things Fall Apart, Brave New World, The Scarlet Letter and The Namesake (sort of…). A little of everything, theme-wise. I’m debating whether to look over Othello/Hamlet… but I’m thinking their sort of similar to Things Fall Apart (which is like the modern-language Shakespearean tragedy, so…)</p>
<p>My teacher makes us rewrite the poem in our own words next to the poem. I find that it really helps establish the idea and enables me to grasp the meaning. I’ve also found that it helps to read some of the questions and answers first. If I just jump in, my thoughts are too overwhelmed by wanting to get into it, so much that I can’t get into it. So if I know the general idea (usually the first question gives that away), I can piece together some meaning.</p>
<p>Ha no I love poetry.</p>
<p>I’m going Heart of Darkness or Hamlet. We’ve read crap this year, basically sophisticated Twilight (The Poisonwood Bible/The Virgin Suicides).</p>
<p>I have no frigging idea how I didn’t get a 5 on lang. Maybe because I had a really sucky teacher and spent the night prepping for Art History instead, but that’s no excuse. It’s English —> it’s easy. Incredibly ignominious score. If I don’t get a five on Lit, I will fall over and die or something. <– That was not hyperbole. It may have even been litotes.</p>
<p>that’s a good idea. I find that skimming the questions first, no matter what kind of passage it is, usually helps piece together the meaning/message it’s trying to convey.</p>
<p>I am using L’Etranger or Hamlet. I’d prefer to use the former, but we’ll see how it goes. Hamlet is, more or less, a universal backup.</p>
<p>I’m using Beloved. It works for about 98% of the open questions that I’ve seen. If not, then I’ll either use Catcher in the Rye, or Pride and Prejudice. Those novels have always worked for the 2% that I’ve seen that Beloved doesn’t work for.</p>
<p>I’ll try to do Native Son, Things Fall Apart, or Beowulf.</p>
<p>I’m going for Beowulf, Fathers and Children, or Madame Bovary. If really none of those fit, I have some backups (such as Chronicle of a Death Foretold and Catcher in the Rye), but I don’t see why I wouldn’t be able to make them work.</p>
<p>Probably going to use Portrait. King Lear and Hamlet as backups, though I don’t remember anything about either two (queue Sparknotes). </p>
<p>Anyone have a list of literary terms and their definitions? (e.g. assonance, iambic meter, etc.)
Also looking for descriptions of different types of poems (sonnet, sestina, etc.)</p>
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<p>Shakespeare/Elizabethan Sonnet: 14 lines, A B A B. The first 12 are just lines and the last 2 are a conclusion.</p>
<p>Italian Sonnet: 14 lines, A B B A. The first 8 lines present a problem; the last 6 provide some conclusion/solace to the problem.</p>
<p>is L’etranger of literary merit monoclide?
I’ll probably do animal farm or of mice and men… my two favorite books from HS :)</p>
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<p>I’d say so. It is in quite a few AP Literature classes. It wasn’t in mine - I read it on my own - but I don’t see how it wouldn’t fit. It’s an excellent book. (And much deeper than a lot of books I read in class.)</p>
<p>Anyone feeling like reviewing Waiting for Godot?</p>
<p>To follow up on Monoclide’s explanation, Shakespearean sonnets are also called English sonnets. The last two lines are known as a heroic couplet, and rhyme. Shakespearean/English sonnets have a rhyme scheme of ABABCDCDEFEFGG
Italian sonnets are also known as Petrarchan sonnets. Line 9 has a turn/shift. Its rhyme scheme is ABBABBACDECDE, I believe.</p>