<p>Hey fellow CC'ers!
For anyone who is taking the AP Lit exam on Thursday or have taken it before, any suggestions or tips? I am feeling rather uneasy because I have not taken AP Language, before. (in my school, AP Lit is offered for juniors, and AP Comp is only offered for seniors)
An effective guide to study literary terms for multiple choice? and time apportionment- how much time do you spend organizing your thoughts and writing? </p>
<p>Thanks and best of luck to all taking it on Thursday!</p>
<p>I’m taking it on thursday too. Just make sure that you understand how to find the meaning in poetry and short stories and be able to identify things like imagery, diction, theme, etc. Probably good to take some practice exams and read some poetry beforehand, and read up on some plots for literary novels (think hemingway, austen, fitzgerald, dickens, etc - even modern books that would be considered higher level fiction) on sparknotes</p>
<p>oh and shakespeare is always good to know</p>
<p>Do you think it would be ok to write about Fahrenheit-451 for my essay?</p>
<p>Yep! That’s a pretty well known and distinguished book</p>
<p>Definitely - F451 can be effectively used for a lot of subjects- I am relying on Brave new World, in case if there is a question regarding role of science, technology and whatnot.
Otherwise, Jane Eyre for the win 
How do you guys approach poetry and multiple choice?</p>
<p>So for AP Lit, what percentage of questions do you need to get right to get a 4 or 5?</p>
<p>When we took a practice test in class, I got around 75% of the MC questions right and still earned a 5. It just depends on how well-written your essays are.</p>
<p>Any tips for the multiple choice section for slow readers?</p>
<p>1) read the questions first and go that ask for specific lines/vocab words</p>
<p>2) note of special parts of the text they ask you to reflect upon: for example, if there any questions like “in lines blah blah blah”, underline those lines before hand so when you get to them, you can immediately jump to answering the question instead of finishing the text and then having to go back to it.</p>
<p>For the poetry on Free Response section, how do you organize it? I am used to dividing my essay into 2-3 paragraphs and discussing each section of the poem and literary devices employed. Would it be a better strategy to answer the question, by discussing one literary device in each paragraph?
(this probably made no sense whatsoever)</p>
<p>anyone know if the last fr question (the open-ended one) is specific to a theme/only a few books, or can you use pretty much any book and bs it a little? i’m pretty well read (shakespeare, some well-known plays, fitzgerald, austin, etc), but am not sure how many books i have to review the plot of.</p>
<p>there have been some very obscure questions (like a country setting one a few years back)</p>
<p>I would say choose 3 eclectic books. [AP</a> Literature: Titles from Free Response Questions since 1973](<a href=“http://homepage.mac.com/mseffie/AP/APtitles.html]AP”>http://homepage.mac.com/mseffie/AP/APtitles.html)</p>
<p>Look at the ‘hit list’</p>