You can write about any novel or play that is considered “canonical literature” for the AP® English Literature essays, but there are a few works every student taking this test should read because of their literary importance and variety of themes and situations – making them versatile subjects good to respond to almost any essay prompt with.
Flashcards can be extremely helpful for studying for the AP® Physics exams. While there is very little vocabulary that students need to know for the exam, there are several formulas and equations that students need to know to solve the problems of the multiple choice and free response sections.
Speaking in Spanish can be challenging, especially on the speaking portions of the AP® Spanish Language exam. However, speaking is, in fact, the best way to communicate in Spanish, and with a little practice you can master the art of Spanish conversation. Knowing many vocabulary words isn’t enough – we know you know your stuff! The key to speaking on the AP® exam is to keep calm and apply your skills; if you address the prompts, you will perform with flying colors.
One of the biggest sections on your ACT® is the ACT® Reading section and that means having the best possible reading strategies is extremely important. With 75 questions to answer and only 45 minutes to do it in, you need to make sure that you know how to study for this section by reading through the questions and passages properly.
Just as an athlete has to prepare properly for an important game or race, it’s up to you as a student to prepare yourself adequately for the morning of a test. It’s important that you are in a healthy and ready body and state of mind so that you can do your absolute best on the test, seeing as retakes are generally not an option or they cost a not-so-small amount of money.
The AP® English Language persuasive (or argumentative) essay is one of the three long-form free-response questions that will make up 55% of your score on the AP® English Language and Composition Exam. While the multiple-choice section and the rhetorical analysis essay will test you on how well you have learned the various rhetorical techniques you have been exposed to this year, the persuasive essay and a similar task, the synthesis (also see our article “5 Tips to the AP® English Language Synthesis Essay You Must Know”), will test you on how well you can put these techniques to use yourself.
The AP® English Language exam contains three essays, two of which are the argument essays. The argument essays come with a prompt that contains a passage. The student must then analyze and immediately craft an appropriate argument that answers the prompt. This essay is different than the synthesis essay in that there is only one prompt that the student must analyze; however, the passage is much longer than the smaller sources found in the synthesis essay.
Conquering the multiple-choice section of the English Literature AP® exam depends in part on being able to identify and understand certain essential literary concepts, known in this article as rhetorical terms. The AP® English Literature rhetorical terms defined and described below are only a sampling of the many concepts that could appear on the test. However, these 15 terms are some of the must-know concepts necessary for success in the English Literature exam.
You’ve probably been working on your AP® Psychology reviews and studying for the exam for quite some time now. There’s bound to be so many flashcard terms running through your head at this point, ranging from abnormal behavior to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. You might even be dreaming about how to best analyze your own dreams at this point.
The AP® English Language course is designed to develop critical literacy and facilitate informed citizenship in students. Throughout the course, students examine and discuss non-fiction works of various types and themes, summarizing who is being addressed, what is being said, how the idea is being presented, and why it is being said.