<p>So the AP Literature test is in like a week or so…what ONE piece of literature should I Spark/Cliff note or READ before the AP Test, for the last free-response question on the test?</p>
<p>Invisible Man by Ellison. It’s appeared in pretty much half the AP Lit exams since 19whatever. At least that’s what my teacher has told me. Another said Frankenstein.</p>
<p>Sparknote anything in the Norton Anthology of Literature.</p>
<p>Invisible Man is a great one. I find that As I Lay Dying, by Faulkner, fits practically every question, though I would recommend actually reading the book instead of Sparknoting it.</p>
<p>The Great Gatsby. Out of all the books we read last year, I ended up using this that I read two years ago in my essay.</p>
<p>Hamlet works for just about anything as well.</p>
<p>Great Gatsby is good too because it’s short- you can probably read it by next week :)</p>
<p>Second Hamlet and As I Lay Dying. . . Sun Also Rises might be good.</p>
<p>My teacher told me that if you write your essay on Hamlet, they essentially give your paper to college professors. So she said, either knock it out of the park or just don’t do Hamlet. Anyone else’s teacher say this?</p>
<p>I have never heard that before and I don’t think this is necessarily true. My teacher is an essay grader, however and she did tell us that they get tons of Hamlet essays so maybe Hamlet isn’t such a good choice.</p>
<p>Heart of Darkness. You can relate that book to almost ANYTHING. It’s so short that you could probably read it in its entirety in a day, anyway.</p>
<p>A Modest Proposal, it’s a nice, short essay that satirizes Ireland’s problem.</p>
<p>Modest Proposal is good for Satire we read an excerpt of that for ap english comp last year from the Norton Reader</p>
<p>the books im most probably going to use are:</p>
<p>Hamlet, Scarlett Letter, The Giver (though i think this book might be low merit for ap lit), A street car named desire.</p>
<p>My teacher is also an AP grader and said that unless you can knock Hamlet out of the park, don’t use it (overused). OOh, I love Heart of Darkness! It will fit a lot of prompts as well and is also just an incredible book.</p>
<p>gonna second gatsby here.</p>
<p>also if you’re gonna use scarlet letter, spell it right =P haha just fyi</p>
<p>I second Heart of Darkness.</p>