<p>What novels would you guys recommend to use?</p>
<p>My teacher is insisting that as long as we have Heart of Darkness we’ll be good for almost any question.</p>
<p>Too bad it’s so boring that I can’t even think about spending a half hour writing an essay on it sooo I’m back to square one.</p>
<p>I couldn’t even get through the sparknotes of Heart of Darkness.</p>
<p>After reading Atlas Shrugged, I am considering it to be a book of literary merit and will definitely utilize it with an appropriate prompt.</p>
<p>I highly recommend The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. I have used it for a myriad of essays I have written, including last year’s AP Language essay.</p>
<p>Siddartha, short easy to understand - lots of interesting ideas can be pulled out of it.</p>
<p>Out of these which should I review? I feel like I have enough time to look over 2.
-Candide
-The Awakening
-Dorian Grey
-Huck Finn
-Hamlet
-Jane Eyre
-The Road
-The Scarlet Letter</p>
<p>Heart of Darkness was the most boring novel ever.Half my class didn’t even actually read it. And I don’t see how it would work for everything. Macbeth is used a lot, but personally I liked it.
@Porcelain I would say look over The Road and The Scarlet Letter.</p>
<p>Personally, I’m going to read the summaries over 1984, A Prayer for Owen Meany, and Candide. Maybe the Kite Runner, but I hear that the graders are tired of reading essays on that.
This is definitely going to be my lowest AP. English is my least favorite subject.</p>
<p>I was just looking over past essay prompts for #3 on the free response. 2003 Form B’s was: “Select a play in which a character responds to a cultural collision.” After looking at the suggested books to write about I didn’t read any of them. Do you think it would have been acceptable to write about Pride and Prejudice? With the cultural difference between Elizabeth’s middle class family and Darcy’s upper class family?</p>
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<p>NOOO :(</p>
<p>I wanted to be unique and use Ayn Rand 
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<p>What did you get on the Language exam?</p>
<p>@Azyrk13 Where did you hear that graders are getting tired of reading the Kite Runner?
I really hope that’s not true, because that was my favorite novel in this class by far.</p>
<p>Hmm, yeah, we’ve read some great books this year in class but my favorites are definitely Paradise Lost and Heart of Darkness, pretty sure I’ll be able to talk about at least one of those during the exam.</p>
<p>Hi guys. I have never studied for this. My teacher never taught us anything. What to do?</p>
<p>Does anyone know of a website that offers examples of high scoring answers to the FRQs? My world was shattered today when I found out they should be treated as questions instead of essay prompts (aside from the book one)…</p>
<p>A link to a list of more obscure lit terms would be very helpful as well.</p>
<p>What do you mean by they shoudn’t be treated as essay prompts?</p>
<p>As in don’t waste time trying to do formal five paragraph essays, just cut to the answers of the questions being asked. I’m not completely sure if that’s actually true though, hence why I’m asking if anyone knows of prior essays that have been released.</p>
<p>Actually, upon further review of essay prompts, they are actual essays. Ignore me, I guess my teacher just doesn’t know what he’s talking about. I’m really curious as to what he was referring to now…</p>
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<p>Past FRQs with sample responses and whatnot, for those of you interested.</p>
<p>How are you guys studying for this?</p>
<p>Doing sample MC, sample essay questions…</p>
<p>The exam is tomorrow!!!</p>
<p>@Okeefe thanks for posting that. That will be useful.
My teacher told us not to cram tonight, but I think I will anyway.
As for preparing, I would advise you to do what gardenofpotter is doing.</p>