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questions on four or five different passages.One passage has at least fifteen questions and may be reusedon a future exam.Two of the passages are prose;two are poetry.Though the poems are usually complete works,the prose passages are likely to be taken from longer works such as novels or plays.  \nThe four or five passages represent different periods of British and American literature.It is likely that one ischosen from the sixteenth or the early seventeenth century and one from the Restoration or eighteenth century,unless these periods are represented by passages on the essay section of the exam.The two other sections arefrom nineteenth-,twentieth-,or twenty-first century writers.The exam as a whole is likely to include some worksby female and minority writers.  \nYou may,by extraordinarily good luck,find a passage on the exam that you've studied in your English class,butthe odds are heavily against it.The passages chosen for the exam are almost always those that have not found theirway into textbooks and anthologies.Though your AP class should study shorter poems of poets like Shakespeareand Donne,and though a sonnet by one or the other may someday appear on the exam,it will not be one of thepopular favorites like“My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun”or\"Death,be not proud.”The passages areoften by writers you are familiar with,but the specific text is not likely to be familiar to you.To be prepared for themultiple-choice section,you must be able to sight-read a reasonably complex poem or passage of prose written inEnglish within the last six centuries.If your studies are limited to a narrow period—the twentieth century,say—you will be at a serious disadvantage on the multiple-choice section of the exam.  \nThe passages chosen for the exam are not easy.They must be complex enough to generate fifteen or so multiple-choice questions that discriminate among the many thousands of students taking the exam.If the passages aretoo hard or too easy,they don't accurately rank the exam takers.  \nTo answer the multiple-choice questions,you don't need any specific historical or philosophical knowledge.The pas-sages are self-contained and self-explanatory.If a particularly difficult word appears that is crucial to the under-standing of the passage,it is explained in a footnote.But the exam expects you to be familiar with the commonterms of literary analysis and to have some familiarity with classical mythology and the more popular parts of theOld and New Testaments.Because so much of British and American literature of the earlier periods is religious,it isquite possible that a religious poem by a writer like George Herbert or Edward Taylor or Anne Bradstreet may beon the exam.But the examiners are eager to ensure that no one is given any special advantage,and if a religious textis used,it should be just as accessible to a nonbeliever as to an evangelical and to a modern Muslim or a Jew as to aChristian.The questions will always be on literary,not doctrinal,issues.  \nBe glad if you have a teacher who insists on spending weeks on seventeenth-or eighteenth-century works whenyou would rather be talking about a current author.Unless you're comfortable with the unfamiliar vocabulary,syntax,and conventions of the literature written before our time,you'll have trouble with the multiple-choice sec-tion of the exam and possibly with two-thirds of the essay section as well.  \nThough it will be helpful if you practice multiple-choice exams before you take the exam in May,your first task is tolearn to analyze a poem and a prose passage.To practice your skills,you'l find the best exams are those publishedby the Advanced Placement Program of the College Board.The multiple-choice sections of some past APEnglishLiterature and Composition Exams are available and can be ordered.Though several commercially publis","cbCaidfrJ6oXeW4G","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidfrJ6oXeW4G","pdf",1279701,"English","# Analyzing Poems\n## 1. What is the dramatic situation?","[{\"question\":\"How many passages and question counts are typical in the AP Lit multiple-choice section?\",\"answer\":\"The section usually includes between fifty and sixty questions across four or five passages. One passage commonly has at least fifteen questions and may be reused on a future exam.\"},{\"question\":\"Do you need specific historical or philosophical knowledge to answer the questions?\",\"answer\":\"No. The passages are self-contained and self-explanatory, and questions focus on literary rather than doctrinal issues.\"},{\"question\":\"What preparation approach is recommended for analyzing poems?\",\"answer\":\"Practice sight-reading and work through each poem by asking structured questions, starting with the dramatic situation—speaker(s), gender, setting, time, and circumstances.\"}]","AP Lit Multiple Choice - How to Prepare for the AP English Literature Exam | PDF",1790160727]