Studying for AP

I chose to start my AP study process with one of the practice tests on the Exam Practice and Reference page. I started the practice exam by reading a passage then answering about 15 questions on it. Despite the questions being in depth and difficult, I did pretty well. I only chose three of the wrong answers on that section. Next I read a poem and answered about ten questions in response to the poem. I felt more confident with my knowledge of this poem than I had with the previous passage. Ironically I did worse on this section, scoring only a 5 out of the 10 questions.

Plan for AP test

I will be taking the in-class AP test equivalent, and I need to start my studying immediately. I plan to study the AP terms and do well on the terms tests we are taking. I also want to look at other students literature analysis s and familiarize myself with books I haven't read. I need to do well on the practice tests as well.

Literature Analysis

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Macbeth Soliloquy Video

Macbeth Notes

-character driven play.
-displays the rise and fall of a great man.
-Macbeth never give information exclusively to the audience.
-tragedy.
-he enjoys the possibility of being king.
-Macbeth has courage and valor.
-defends kingdom, Duncan has him in high regard.
-everything that happens to Macbeth is a result of his own actions.
-architect of his own destruction.
-Macbeth wants to become king.
-he doesn't question the witches predictions.
-has a moral sense of what's right and wrong.
-Macbeth knows that the consequences are going to be great.
-Macbeth becomes obsessed with the prediction while Banquo doesn't.
-Lady Macbeth is pure evil.
-She tempts Macbeth and tells him to act on impulse.
-She speaks to him as if he needs to be more masculine.
-Lady Macbeth is pure animus.
-Macbeth stabs Duncan quickly so he can't cry out.
-He won't compromise.
-once he became king, he is overwhelmed with fear.
-his evil has made him fear himself.
-Lady Macbeth kills herself.
-She tells Macbeth to do things she won't do herself.

Macbeth Test

1. Macbeth won the respect of King Duncan by

A. Slaying the traitor Macdonwald.

 

2. King Duncan rewarded Macbeth by dubbing him

B. The Thane of Cawdor him.

 

3. In addressing Banquo, the witches called him which of these?

"Lesser than Macbeth, and greater." (I)

"Not so happy as Macbeth, yet much happier." (II)

"A future father of kings." (III)

A. I and II only

 

4. When Macbeth said, "Two truths are told / As happy prologues" he was referring to

A. His titles of Glamis and Cawdor.

 

5. "Nothing in his life / Became him like the leaving it" is a reference to

A. The traitorous Thane of Cawdor.

 

6. Duncan's statement, "I have begun to plant thee and will labour / To make thee full of growing" is an example of

B. A metaphor.

 

7. Lady Macbeth characterizes her husband as being

B. "too full of the milk of human kindness."

 

8. When Macbeth agonizes over the possible killing of the king, which of these does he say?

"He is my house guest; I should protect him." (I)

"Duncan's virtues will "plead like angels" " (II)

"I am his kinsman and his subject" (III)

B. II and III

 

9. Macbeth's statement to his wife, "Bring forth men-children only" signifies that he

C. has accepted the challenge to slay the king.

 

10. As part of the plan to kill the king, Lady Macbeth would

A. get the chamberlains drunk.

 

Part 2

1. "Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible / To feeling as to sight?" is a reference to the

B. dagger.

 

2. Lady Macbeth confessed that she would have killed King Duncan herself except for the fact that

B. he looked like her father 

 

3. Shakespeare introduced the Porter in order to

B. remind the audience of the Witches' prophecies.

 

4. Malcolm and Donalbain flee after the murder

A. because they fear the daggers in men's smiles.

 

5. Macbeth arranges for Banquo's death by telling the hired killers that

C. he will eradicate all records of their previous crimes.

 

6. Macbeth startles his dinner guests by

A. conversing with the Ghost of Banquo

 

7. The Witches threw into the cauldron

"Eye of bat and tongue of frog"(I)

"Wool of bat and tongue of dog" (II)

"Fang of snake and eagle's glare" (III)

A. I and II 

 

8. The three apparitions which appeared to Macbeth were

An armed head. (I)

A child with a crown. (II)

A bloody child (III)

C. I, II, and III

 

9. In Act IV, Malcolm is at first lukewarm toward Macduff because he

B. suspects a trick.

 

10. Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane when

B. the camouflaged soldiers make their advance.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Macbeth notes

·         Macbeth is supposed to upset people, it shows life at its most brutal and cynical.

·         Murder is glorified.

·         When Macbeth is introduced he had just cut an enemy open.

·         Lady Macbeth prays to the devil to posses her mind, and give her a man’s ability to do evil.

·         The Macbeths murder a sleeping man then slaughter the guards and frame them for the murder.

·         Everybody knows Macbeth murdered Duncan, but they make him king anyway.

·         He goes to a Witch to look into his future and his head is put on a stick.

·         Many events in this play are brutal and violent.

·         Shakespeare’s theatrical company, the King's Men, was the official royal acting company.

·         The story of this psychotic killer and his fiendlike wife was actually written as a tribute to Shakespeare's royal patron, King James I of England, who was also king of Scotland.

·         Macbeth is considered a history play, based on the events in the life of a real historical figure, but it is even more a powerful tragedy. 

·         In the case of Macbeth, he was writing about a time over 500 years in the past so the English audience was totally unfamiliar.

·         Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's most intense plays & one of his most complex psychological studies.

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Literature Analysis Notes: To Kill A Mockingbird

Finch Family- Father is Atticus Finch and his children are Scout and Jem. They live with their maid named Calpurnia. The story takes place in Maycomb Alabama. The three kids, Scout, Jem, and Dill explore and sneak around the Radley property in the middle of the night. While they are sneaking around Nathan Radley shoots a gun at them, and while escaping Jem loses his pants. The next day Jem finds his pants mended and hung over the fence. The next winter, The kids find more things in the knothole of the tree on Boo Radley's property, but eventually Nathan plugs the knothole. A fire breaks out at a neighbor's house and while Scout is watching someone mysteriously puts a blanket on her shoulders. Atticus is dealing with a major conflict in Maycomb. A local black man named Tom Robinson is accused of rapping a white woman and since Atticus is a lawyer he defends Tom. Atticus provides a strong case that suggests her wounds are from her father but since the town and jury are extremely racist, Tom is convicted. Bob Ewel attacks Scout and Jem and Boo saves them and stabs Bob.

Remix the textbook

Anthem For Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen

1. Dramatic Situation- war
2. Structure- Two stanzas
3. Theme- The tragedies of war
4. Grammar- proper grammar
5. Important Words- " Holy Glimmers Of Goodbyes."
6. Tone- Sad and Grim tone
7. Literary Techniques- structure, tone, metaphor, allusions.
8. Literal vs. Figurative language- most language is literal but he uses figurative language for the allusion.
9. Prosody- Slow sad flow

The Lamb- William Blake

1. The lamb not knowing who made it.
2. Every two lines are rhyming.
3. Knowing ones origins.
4. Old English.
5. curiosity
6. peaceful.
7. personification to the lamb
8. Literal Language
9. calm and steady flow

Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare

1. flaws of women
2. iambic pantameter.
3. The flaws of a woman are what make her beautiful.
4. Old English
5. "My mistress's eyes are nothing like the sun"
6. Honest and sincere
7. simile and metaphor
8. mostly figurative
9. easy going flow