AP Exam Prep
Vocabulary Practice:
Barron's AP Lit: quizlet.com/11619425/barrons-ap-literature-vocabulary-flash-cards/original
Quizlet: quizlet.com/110079590/ap-literature-and-comp-flash-cards/
Barron's AP Lit: quizlet.com/11619425/barrons-ap-literature-vocabulary-flash-cards/original
Quizlet: quizlet.com/110079590/ap-literature-and-comp-flash-cards/
Tips and Resources for Exam Success
THE AP COLLEGE BOARD:
AP Exam Free- Response Prompts and Sample Essays
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/exam/exam_questions/2002.html
An Exam Readers Advice on Writing:
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/courses/teachers_corner/17306.html
Reading Study Skills
http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/english_lit/reading.html?englit
Writing Study Skills
http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/english_lit/writing.html?englit
What to do on Exam Day
http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/exday.html
THE AP COLLEGE BOARD:
AP Exam Free- Response Prompts and Sample Essays
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/exam/exam_questions/2002.html
An Exam Readers Advice on Writing:
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/courses/teachers_corner/17306.html
Reading Study Skills
http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/english_lit/reading.html?englit
Writing Study Skills
http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/english_lit/writing.html?englit
What to do on Exam Day
http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/exday.html
Refreshers from Class Materials:
Literary Time Periods- Review
Are you ready to approach the exam texts?
AP English Literature Practice Multiple Choice
AP English Literature Test Score Calculator - ...
AP Central - AP English Literature and ...
Does My College Take AP Credit?
Examples of Rhetorical Devices in Literature
Lit Refresher- audiobooks
Proper Comma Usage Comma
Literary Time Periods- Review
Are you ready to approach the exam texts?
AP English Literature Practice Multiple Choice
AP English Literature Test Score Calculator - ...
AP Central - AP English Literature and ...
Does My College Take AP Credit?
Examples of Rhetorical Devices in Literature
Lit Refresher- audiobooks
Proper Comma Usage Comma
Mnemonic Reminders to Help Prepare for the AP ExamUse the mnemonic reminders as you study for the AP Exam.
TP-CASTT Analysis
(Especially useful when first considering a narrative work)
Ask yourself these questions about what you have read.
(Particularly useful when analyzing persuasive texts or advertisements)
(A general mnemonic for any type of writing: what you should address immediately)
(A reminder of the steps in the process of analysis and commentary)
TP-CASTT Analysis
- Title: Ponder the title before reading the poem
- Paraphrase: Translate the poem into your own words
- Connotation: Contemplate the poem for meaning beyond the literal
- Attitude: Observe both the speaker's and the poet's attitude (tone)
- Shifts: Note shifts in speakers and in attitudes
- Title: Examine the title again, this time on an interpretive level
- Theme: Determine what the poet is sayingShift (Progression)
Devices that help readers discover shift:- Key words (but, yet, however, although)
- Punctuation (dashes, periods, colons, ellipsis)
- Stanza or paragraph divisions
- Changes in line or stanza length, or both
- Irony (sometimes irony hides shifts)
- Structure (how the work is written can affect its meaning)
- Changes in sound (may indicate changes in meaning)
- Changes in diction (ex: slang to formal language)Back to TP-CASTT
- Diction: the connotation of the word choice
- Images: vivid appeals to understanding through the senses
- Details: facts that are included or omitted
- Language: the overall use of language, such as formal, clinical, jargon
- Sentence Structure: how structure affects the reader's attitudeDiction
Consider the following when discussing diction (word choice).- monosyllabic / polysyllabic
- colloquial / informal / formal
- denotative / connotative
- concrete / abstract
- euphonious / cacophonous
(Especially useful when first considering a narrative work)
Ask yourself these questions about what you have read.
- Setting: When and where is the event occurring? Could there be any symbolic significance to the author's choice of setting?
- Action: What is occurring in the passage? Why did the author choose those particular actions?
- Time: How much time elapses? How is the passage of time (if any) depicted? How is it significant to the text?
- Tone: What is the author's attitude toward the subject? What does that suggest about the author? The topic?
- Theme: What message is the author trying to convey? What lesson is being taught?
(Particularly useful when analyzing persuasive texts or advertisements)
- Sender-receiver relationship
- Message
- Effect
- Logic
- Language
(A general mnemonic for any type of writing: what you should address immediately)
- Subject
- Occasion
- Audience
- Purpose
- Speaker
(A reminder of the steps in the process of analysis and commentary)
- S = Select
- Q = Quotation: a specific line (or passage) from the text
- U = Understand
- I = Identify (explain, hold forth, etch)
- D = Define/Describe/Deconstruct its
- S = Significance