AP English Literature - Help?

mwbashful18
Sun, 07 May 2006 13:27:29 +0000

I did Sense and Sensibility for the FRQ. Tomorrow we talk in class about the essays, so that should be interesting as we didn’t really study anything in class that would count. We did East of Eden, but I don’t really think that applied as much as other books would. A few people had read Huck Finn and so they used that, I was the only one from my class to think Jane Austen. But I kept confusing the movie with the book as I just watched the movie not too long ago. I had to stay away from bungling up my essay with the film.

The hawk essay I think I did very well on. I wrote that it was apocalyptic with its foreboding approach of darkness as sunsets symbolize death. I used the “still thrush” and “bats cruising only in heiroglyphics” to represent the disappearance of life. That and the final stanza’s talk about the earth squeaking on its axis and hearing the drip of history over the wind.

The play excerpt annoyed me but I think I did well enough on it. I understood where the characters were coming from and pointed out some funny bits in it. I pointed out that a Duke and Duchess are higher up in class than a Lord of Lady and that the Duchess of Berwick thus takes advantage of her title. I did mention Agatha, but only in mentioning Darlington’s reputation. I think Jane Austen helped me with that essay and all the period movies I watch about England and such.

I hope I did well on the multiple choice. I always get flustered with those questions because they seem like they’re open to interpretation. And I was totally prepared for questions like, “Find the synecdoche in this line . . .” and they didn’t have anything regarding literature terms. Grr.