<p>my teacher said its better to write an amazing essay about the wrong book, than writing a crappy essay about the right book…if that helps haha</p>
<p>Anyone had the echo sonnet?</p>
<p>Do the scorers favor original, or unorthdox theses for the 3rd essay? I wrote about Nathan Price from The Poisonwood Bible and how he believes that the injustice done to him was surviving the war. And the way that he deals with that is by trying to please god by attempting to convert others, which ultimately fails. Does anyone have any input?</p>
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These are always nice if developed well.</p>
<p>We get to pick what we read. Sure there are some books that the whole class reads, but these were my selections senior year (not including books from previous years like Scarlett Letter, Catcher in the Rye, Huck Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird, Antigone, etc):</p>
<p>American Dream (play)
The Stranger-Albert Camus
Death of a Salesman (play)
Giovanni’s Room-James Baldwin
Maurice-E.M. Forster
Slaughter-house Five-Vonnegut
Breakfast of Champions-Vonnegut
Notes from Underground-Fyodor Can’t-Spell-his-Last-Name
The Metamorphosis-Franz Kafka
The Picture of Dorian Gray-Oscar Wilde
Lady Windermere’s Fan-Wilde again (Play)
Ariel-Plath (book of poems)
The Bell Jar-Plath again
Life of Pi-Yann Martel
The Alchemist-Paulo Coehlo
The Bridge of San Luis Rey-Thorton Wilder
A Farewell to Arms-Hemingway
King Lear-Shakespeare</p>
<p>I think that was it. Might’ve read more and forgot to put it. </p>
<p>I used The Stranger for my third essay. Yeah, I know people say it may be overused and everything. I just used a book I knew very well. I knew all the characters’ names, the trial, his sentence, the absurdity in his conviction by the jury where all rational was lost, and then tied it back to Camus’ own experiences after the war where everything seemed absurd and the world, illogical. </p>
<p>I actually liked the simply language used in the first poem “A Story”. I tied in how the simple language symbolized the childhood of the son, because children use simple language and then tied in how the sentences used more vocabulary to the transitioning of the child to adulthood and how the equation is earth bound. The father felt like he was under the presence of a ‘god’ to his child, and I related it to the equation of how it was more ‘earthly than heavenly’ as the father is merely a mortal. He is only human and feels the human emotions of longing, of keeping that childhood. Even the room the characters were situated in, a plain room with toys and stories, also symbolized how closed up the father and child are from reality. And indeed children have to grow up to open the door and leave to make their own story-not the ones they hear from their fathers. </p>
<p>All children have to grow up, and the father knows that, but he hasn’t accepted the idea as he looks into the future as he isn’t the one telling the story anymore-it is his son. </p>
<p>I didn’t like the Middlemarch Essay. The last one was alright. I wrote like 4 pages for the first, 3 for the second, and around 2.5 for the last. I did pretty well so I am happy :)</p>
<p>I would say to pick books for each -ism. And then some.</p>
<p>To those of you who got 4’s and 5’s on the exam, is it possible to self-study for the exam? I mean, is it even possible? I’m asking this because some of my friends who took AP Eng Lit last year told me her teacher sucks. I have looked up some prep books on amazon.com such as cliffsnotes and Barron’s, but I wouldn’t buy them if they’re no help at all. Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>^Definitely. </p>
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<p>@WongTongTong Which one would you recommend?</p>
<p>I’m taking this class this year. Which prep book do u guys recommend? Is PR any good?</p>
<p>^Definitely. </p>
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<p>Allen Ginsberg </p>
<p>Hey guys im doing a research paper on Allen Ginsberg. I am having a really hard time figuring out if I should focus on his use of anaphora or on his diction??So what one would be best to write on?also if you could leave a list of the poems that contain each technique that would be great! thanks!</p>
<p>For me: Looking over </p>
<p>-Dorian Gray
-Atonement
-1984
-Brave New World
-Lolita</p>
<p>Poems are 50 percent of the test :\ </p>
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<p>My goal is to get at least a 4 on this test because I got a 5 on Lang last year and I want to focus on my 5 other AP’s. Any advice? I’m weak at poetry and I don’t think I write Lit essays as well as Lang.</p>
<p>Bumping for discussion</p>
<p>Anyone have some last minute tips on comprehension… Ect on the ap test </p>
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<p>Some tips on comprehension would be nice. ^</p>
<p>Bump 10char</p>
<p>ugh I abhor the poetry used on the AP Lit test. </p>
<p>It’s late (I basically have two weeks to prep for 4 exams) and get ready for ISEF, too so I’m going to stick to:</p>
<p>a) reading more poetry
b) reading Siddartha (I own it and its quick…)
c) revising:
- Beowulf
- A picture of Dorian Grey
- the portion of Paradise Lost we had to read
- Frankenstein
- Anna Karenina</p>
<p>d) I’ll try to write one essay a day, read the literary terms
e) The days right before - take two practice tests.</p>
<p>Maybe I’ll reread Animal Farm and drop Anna Karenina. I can also use “The Great Gatsby”, Hamlet (since we’re finishing it now), Macbeth, Jane Eyre, Metamorphosis and possibly Gone with the Wind. I love the Kite Runner, too.</p>
<p>(I took two full semester english classes).</p>