If something is complex, it is not one dimensional. The most common way I’ve seen students earn the sophistication point is by “Identifying and exploring complexities or tensions within” the work. In 2021, 94 % of students DID NOT earn the sophistication point. They will almost always be there in the passage or poem, which makes them wonderfully reliable. You can memorize a list of 55 literary terms, but these seven are the heart of the Q1 and Q2 on the exam. There is an AP Literature mantra to “know few works well.” Reviewing key moment from the novels and plays that we read in the days leading up to the exam is their best preparation for Q3. My students complete Six Scenes to Themes for every major work we read during the year. Underlining the strong verbs keys your brain, it makes an impression on the mind, helping you understand what characters are doing, what is transpiring in the setting, or how things are being said. If you know the verbs, you know the action. UNDERLINE THE STRONG VERB ON PROSE PASSAGES If you do this over and over again, starting big and broad and refining your way to deeper understand, you will enter the multiple choice or the essay from a place of confidence.ģ. There’s another subtle shift from _ to _ at this moment.” “And at this moment I see a subtle change when _ happens.”
“And while it starts with _, it ends with _.” These ideas will be your guiding principles when you tackle the multiple-choice questions and give you lots of things to write about for the essays.Īfter reading and annotating a poem or passage, mentally say to yourself: Start with the biggest broadest idea that you can identify and refine your way to more specific and nuanced insights. This strategy works for multiple choice as well as Q1 and Q2. Stronger thesis: As Godfrey Gauntlet intrudes on the relationship between Peregrine Pickle and his beloved Emilia, both men follow the social norms of the time to suppress their increasing rage, yet this suppression ultimately makes them look more like fools than gentleman. Weak thesis: In the passage there is a complex interplay between emotions and social norms as Smollett uses a plethora of literary devices to point this out. Here’s are two examples that highlight this difference: In 2017 with Q2’s prompt for Peregrine Pickle, if you saw how foolish the two men looked as their emotions escalated, you were well on your way to the thesis point. If you see what the poem or the prose passage is really about, your well on your way to the thesis point. Well, insight means to see into the nature of something or having a deep understanding.
Here’s the key - have an original and insightful idea about the prompt. Lots and lots of students get the thesis point and you can too. In 2021, 85% of students earned this point across all three essays, and that number would probably be higher if it were not for the hand turkeys, music lyrics, and College-Board-is-an-evil-monopoly letters written to AP Readers. The thesis point is low-hanging fruit that is easy to reach on the exam. Here are eight ways to maximize your score in the eight days leading up to the AP Literature and Composition exam. They include things like “get a good night of sleep the night before,” “read the questions before the passage,” and “eliminate wrong answers.” Rarely, does those tips provide a strategic plan to make a major jump in the days leading up to the exam.
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