<p>The exam goes like this:
-Part one is MC. You read passages and are asked about rhetorical strategies, tone, word connotations, symbolism, etc.
-Part two is three essays: poem analysis, thematic analysis, and text analysis. The last two will be about texts from the reading list. The first one will be about a poem printed in the test booklet.</p>
<p>I’m taking the class during the upcoming school year and we’ll be using Nextext’s Abriendo Puertas: Tomos I & II (two different books, each about 500 pages each) as our textbooks. All the required reading is packed into there.
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<p>I haven’t seen that many review books around though. I know that Princeton Review shares a single book for both language and literature. You’ll have to work, since it isn’t a common exam. Colleges are all over the place in regarding this exam–either they don’t recognize it, or it’ll give you enough credits to only have 3 classes left before completing a minor in Spanish. My advice is to only do it if you’re really interested in the literature, culture, and language of Spanish countries.</p>