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AP Lit TipsLiteraryDevices
PoetryDevices
Elements of Literature
Potpourri
Save these two types of question for last, as they eat up time.
Category 1: $100: A
What are roman numeral (I.; II.; III.) and EXCEPT questions?
Category 1: $100: Q
Ways to prepare for question 3.
Category 1: $200: A
What is review wikipedia/sparksnotes/etc. for
basic (character, plot, place names) info and Gale group for
more sophisticated review (themes, contexts, literary
significance). Reread significant passages (the beginning and end,
climax, places where authors establish setting, symbols,
conflict)Category 1: $200: Q
How long you have to plan and write three essays.
Category 1: $300: A
What is 2 hours? Plus 15 minutes to read
Category 1: $300: Q
Your AP scorer will be oh so impressed if you can discuss this aspect of poetry in Question 1.
Category 1: $400: A
What is structure (meter, rhyme scheme, line lengths, shape,
punctuation)?
Category 1: $400: Q
Three key phrases found on AP rubrics for 8/9 essays.
Category 1: $500: A
What are “persuasive analysis,” “clear and sophisticated”
language, “text references are apt and specific,” “perceptive and insightful,” “consistent
control over language”
Category 1: $500: Q
“Your face, my thane is a book”-Shakespeare’s Macbeth
Category 2: $100: A
What is metaphor?
Category 2: $100: Q
“I love thee to the depth and breadth and height/ My soul can
reach,”-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Category 2: $200: A
What is hyperbole, polysyndeton?
Category 2: $200: Q
“We were very tired, we were very merry-”-Edna St. Vincent Millay
Category 2: $300: A
What is anaphora, internal rhyme, assonance, consonance,
alliteration
Category 2: $300: Q
“There was a long silence. Into it dropped a quiet bombshell.”
-Bessie Head
Category 2: $400: A
What is paradox, synesthesia?
Category 2: $400: Q
“…when suddenly left unassisted to face the
wilderness; a wilderness rendered more strange, more
incomprehensible by the mysterious glimpses of the vigorous life it contained”
-Joseph Conrad
Category 2: $500: A
What is anidiplosis?
Category 2: $500: Q
The beat/rhythm of a poem.
Category 3: $100: A
Category 3: $100: Q
What is meter?
The entity that voices the poem.
Category 3: $200: A
What is the speaker?
Category 3: $200: Q
What we call a ‘paragraph’ in a poem.
Category 3: $300: A
What is a stanza?
Category 3: $300: Q
The idea or phrasing rolls over from one line into the next.
Category 3: $400: A
What is enjambment?
Category 3: $400: Q
When the Whos respond to his thievery by singing joyful
Christmas Carols, the Grinch has a change of heart and inhabits
the Christmas spirit
Category 3: $500: A
Who is epiphany?
Category 3: $500: Q
The central character in a story
Category 4: $100: A
Who is the protagonist?
Category 4: $100: Q
The events that happen in a story; the conflicts that are
relayed
Category 4: $200: A
What is plot?
Category 4: $200: Q
An underlying message the author is trying to convey
through his story
Category 4: $300: A
What is theme?
Category 4: $300: Q
The voice through which a reader encounters a story
Category 4: $400: A
Who is the narrator?
Category 4: $400: Q
When the narrator is all knowing
Category 4: $500: A
What is omniscient?
Category 4: $500: Q
The tone of most movies made by lifetime television
Category 5: $100: A
What is sentimental, effusive, sensual?
Category 5: $100: Q
The tone of most horror movies
Category 5: $200: A
Category 5: $200: Q
What is perverse, grotesque, histrionic, macabre?
The tone of blues songs
Category 5: $300: A
What is lugubrious, melancholic, mournful, elegaic?
Category 5: $300: Q
The tone of Michael Moore documentaries.
Category 5: $400: A
What is portentous, taunting, moralizing?
Category 5: $400: Q
The tone of many Christmas movies.
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What is saccharine, moralistic, nostalgic?
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