<p>Hello all. This is a grade 11 who signed up for english lit (do not know ask me why...) and I'm wondering at the difficulty of procuring a 4 or 5 (probably the former). I do sort of ok on mc's (high 60 low 70) % although my essays are I would say desperate mediocre.</p>
<p>Until thursday I'm planning to pump out a whole bunch of impromptu essays... arggh.. and will hope it will help.</p>
<p>What books are you guys choosing for the draw on your reading free response (not replaced by synthesis, right)? Mine are
-- Fifth Business, Robertson Davies
-- Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
-- maybe Paradise Lost (Milton)
-- Macbeth (mebbe)</p>
<p>and I need to refresh on all those as well...</p>
<p>I anyone wants to discuss frq essays or literary devices (Figure</a> of speech - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia has an absurdly long list) I spose this would be as goodly a place as any. Probably cannot recognize as much from that list as I'd wish for. If only all were as obvious as metaphor.</p>
<p>just read the sparknotes in and out for at least five books that are different of course. Other than that, it's all about your writing and interpretation skills. Here's my arsenal of books:
Fahrenheit 451 (really universal)
The Awakening (for conflicts with society and conformity)
Frankenstein (One of the books that is really fresh in my mind)
Catch 22 (amazing and can be broadly applied)
more but am too lazy to type
Good Luck everybody on Thursday!</p>
<p>English Lit. isn't that hard from what I've heard from senior friends. If you know your literary terms and such down pat and you have a large repertoire of novels to draw from, it shouldn't be too difficult to get a 4.</p>
<p>Best of luck to everyone else taking it on Thursday! After I finish English Lit. I get a 2-hour break and then go back for French Lit. Rawr.</p>
<p>Street Car Named Desire (Can write on about almost anything)
Catch 22 (simply loved this book)
The Glass Menagerie (self interest vs the interest of others)
1984 (dangers of conformity and current situation in the US)
The Things They Carried (maybe)
Twelfth Night (role of the joker)</p>
<p>I'm not sure which books I'm going with yet (I really need to work on that!!). I do think a good way to do is to pick your books, then look at questions from prior years and make sure you can answer all the questions with one of the books you chose. If you're coming up blank for some/many of the questions, then you probably don't have enough books or variety of books.</p>
<p>I have a question if anyone can answer it though--do you find that the MC from the Princeton Review book is harder than prior MC College Board tests/practices?</p>
<p>I'm curious because I'm doing better on the College Board tests (on the one I just took in school I got 50 right and 5 wrong) over the Princeton Review (getting like 35 right, 10 wrong, 5 blank). Anybody run into the same thing?</p>
<p>Well for the year, my Lit class read:
- Great Expectations
- East of Eden
- Wuthering Heights
- Great Gatsby
- Othello
- Medea
- Oedipus Rex
- Importance of Being Earnest
- The Awakening <-- love using this one
- Heart of Darkness
- Ethan Frome
- Pride & Prejudice</p>
<p>Um.. I think that's it ;) About the list, you really don't have to know all of those terms. I think prep books generally have a solid list of terms in the back of the book. I personally have PR, which I think is pretty good (downfall being that it only has 2 practices tests).</p>
<p>If any, the novels I'll probably choose are:
- Our Town
- Pride & Prejudice
- Macbeth
- Candide
- Animal Farm
- Jane Eyre
- Tale of Two Cities
- Glass Menagerie
- Silas Marner
- ... and others I probably won't think about until I see the questions</p>