<p>Did anyone else find it ridiculously hard to write in pen?</p>
<p>I hate writing in pen. My handwriting is pretty neat, but I cross out and erase so much that it makes my work hard to read.</p>
<p>I likewise deplore the pen usage requirement. I’ll probably get a 4 or 5 if they can read my essays, but pen exacerbates my already horrible handwriting, so there is a chance they won’t be able to read them. I write most legibly with a mechanical pencil, but those are evidently forbidden items by the AP test writers.</p>
<p>dude, our teacher kept saying to stay away from books like HP because they are considered “childrens books”</p>
<p>Yeah, you’re supposed to write about a classical piece of literature…</p>
<p>Anyway, central1, don’t fret about it too much, AP exams are really just a nice bonus and nothing more. I’ll have a ton of credits going into college next year, but I’m not sure I’ll use all of them as many introductory courses are pivotal in getting a student acclimated to the college feel. </p>
<p>If anyone rereads this thread next year before their lit exam, just pick one book and know it really, really well.</p>
<p>I thoroughly brushed up on The Age of Innocence last night, and I knew the plot so well that it was applicable to basically any given prompt. I wouldn’t advise knowing 3-4 books going in, just be an expert on one.</p>
<p>One of my friends compared a tragic villain to Magneto on a past exam but he ended up getting a five, so as long as everything else was excellent, you may get by w/using HP.</p>
<p>And as far as pen usage is concerned -I concur! And I love how nobody’s supposed to discuss the MC afterward but everyone does.</p>
<p>I actually like using the pen. As long as you use a cheap bic pen that doesn’t smear or smudge then you’re good.</p>
<p>I wrote about sewing (Grace’s way of communicating with Dr. Jordan, her progress, her lack of free will, her hope for the future, her life story, and social classes of Victorian era) in Alias Grace.</p>
<p>I was going to write about Gatsby and the Green Light (Daisy, the unattainable dream), but I figured it would be overdone.</p>
<p>I thought I did well on all three essays, but now I think I got the point of view wrong in the second one…</p>
<p>MC = skipped 7, probably got 8 to 10 wrong.</p>
<p>Essay = Beasted the symbol essay (wrote on The Awakening), second essay was average, and my first essay sucked. I probably got 8, 6, 3/4 haha. So my total essay score = 17 or 18 I hope.</p>
<p>So composite score range = 95.685 to 101.82. Haha I guess that is a 4. </p>
<p>I just want a 4 to skip out of Freshman English at UCLA.</p>
<p>I am really confident about my AP exam…I hope I did well. I also just wanted to skip out of English in college. But I do love the class :)</p>
<p>Friend of mine used the Green Light in The Great Gatsby. Great choice.</p>
<p>I used Dr. Rank’s Black Crossed card from A Doll’s House. For some reason someone told me they used the same book but the macaroons. I replied: “no, that’s a stupid symbol.”</p>
<p>Side note: Question 2 was terrible. I read it and thought Ah ***? NO! </p>
<p>I swear, there wasn’t ANY figurative language in there. Not a metaphor or a simile to be found! So, I just used the other three it gave us. Totally expect a 5/9 on that one. Still, my first and last were totally kick @$$, and I should get a 9 on those bad boys!</p>
<p>hey what did you guys think the second passage meant? on the essays</p>
<p>i thought the speaker and lutie had different relationships with the city, while the speaker described it as violent and somewhat obnoxious, lutie had a quiet reverance, and intimadation towards the city- which was personified by the wind, i recall many metaphors and maybe one or two similes(and of course synechdoche counts as a figurative device)</p>