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Writing AP Multiple Choice Assessment for Any Poem or PassageWestin Stonebriar Hotel & Golf ClubDallas, TXNancy Dickinsonnancy.dickinson@nancydickinson@AP MC Analysis for Lit Exam2016 Released ExamProseVirginia Wolf from Night and Day 192011Poem (30 lines)“The North Star” by James M. Whitfield 185310Poem (16 lines)“Their Lonely Betters” by W.H. Auden 195112ProseHarriet Beecher Stowe from Uncle Tom’s Cabin 185211Poem (22 lines)“The Triple Fool” by John Donne 189611552015 Released ExamPoem (1807)13Prose (1941)11Poem (1681)8Prose (1811)13Poem (1916)10TOTAL 55 2014 Released ExamPoem (1633)11Prose (1818)12Poem (1970)9Prose (1711)13Poem (1961)10TOTAL 55 2013 Released ExamPoem (1609)11Prose (1881)11Poem (1855)13Poem (1922)9Prose (2008)11TOTAL 55 2016Prose22 QuestionsPoetry33 Questions20th/21st Century23 QuestionsPre-20th Century32 Questions2015Prose 24 QuestionsPoetry 31 Questions20th/21st Century 21 QuestionsPre-20th Century 34 QuestionsBreakdown of 2015 and 2016 Released AP English Language and Composition ExamsNumber of QuestionsAuthorTitleYear PublishedWord Length of Passage11Mark RutherfordFrom a Journal190051814Barbara SichermanWell-Read Lives: How Books Inspired a Generation of American Women201049714Bell HookTalking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black201570716Louis MenandThe Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America200166515Shiva NaipaulEssay198437815Daniel KahnemanThinking Fast and Slow201149212Arthur KrystalThe Half-Life of an American Essayist200752212Jonathan Swift“The Art of Political Lying”1710462Guidelines for Writing QuestionsPassages: Poetry 11-22 lines/Prose 400-600 wordsFormat: There are five answer choices.Use parenthesis around letter of answer choices: (A).Do not use periods on answer choices unless answer is a complete sentence or question stem ends with question mark.Answers aren’t capitalized unless a complete sentence or stem ends with question mark.General Recommendations:Number lines in poetry and passages by multiples of five.All answers are plausible.Answers are of equal length.Answers are similar in structure.Grammar is consistent with the stem.Avoid Roman numeral questions.Avoid “all of the above” and “none of the above.”Use stems from released AP exams.Four Poems by W.H. AudenThat night when joy began?That night when joy began?Our narrowest veins to flush,?We waited for the flash?Of morning's levelled gun.?But morning let us pass,?5And day by day relief?Outgrows his nervous laugh,?Grown credulous of peace,?As mile by mile is seen?No trespasser's reproach,?10And love's best glasses reach?No fields but are his own.?Musee des Beaux Arts About suffering they were never wrong,The old Masters: how well they understoodIts human position: how it takes placeWhile someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting5For the miraculous birth, there always must beChildren who did not specially want it to happen, skatingOn a pond at the edge of the wood:They never forgotThat even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course10Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spotWhere the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horseScratches its innocent behind on a tree. In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns awayQuite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may15Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shoneAs it had to on the white legs disappearing into the greenWater, and the expensive delicate ship that must have seenSomething amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,20Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on. The Unknown Citizen (To JS/07 M 378This Marble MonumentIs Erected by the State)He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to beOne against whom there was no official complaint,And all the reports on his conduct agreeThat, in the modern sense of an old-fashioned word, he was a saint,5For in everything he did he served the Greater Community.Except for the War till the day he retiredHe worked in a factory and never got fired,But satisfied his employers, Fudge Motors Inc.Yet he wasn’t a scab or odd in his views,10For his Union reports that he paid his dues,(Our report on his Union shows it was sound)And our Social Psychology workers foundThat he was popular with his mates and liked a drink.The Press are convinced that he bought a paper every day15And that his reactions to advertisements were normal in every way.Policies taken out in his name prove that he was fully insured,And his Health-card shows he was once in hospital but left it cured.Both Producers Research and High-Grade Living declareHe was fully sensible to the advantages of the Instalment Plan20And had everything necessary to the Modern Man,A phonograph, a radio, a car and a frigidaire.Our researchers into Public Opinion are content That he held the proper opinions for the time of year;When there was peace, he was for peace: when there was war, he went.25He was married and added five children to the population,Which our Eugenist says was the right number for a parent of his generation.And our teachers report that he never interfered with their education.30Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd:Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.Their Lonely BettersAs I listened from a beach-chair in the shadeTo all the noises that my garden made,?It seemed to me only proper that wordsShould be withheld from vegetables and birds.A robin with no Christian name ran through5The Robin-Anthem which was all it knew,?And rustling flowers for some third party waitedTo say which pairs, if any, should get mated.Not one of them was capable of lying,?There was not one which knew that it was dying10Or could have with a rhythm or a rhymeAssumed responsibility for time.Let them leave language to their lonely bettersWho count some days and long for certain letters;?We, too, make noises when we laugh or weep:?15Words are for those with promises to keep..The tone of the poem is best described aswhimsical but pensivejocular but morosebreezy but dismissivebemused but cynicalmischievous but scathingThe poem contains important contrast betweenspeech and writingknowledge and ignorancemorality and customorder and chaossound and silenceThe primary effect of lines 1-2 (“As…made”) in the poem as a whole is to imply that the speaker’s thoughts should not be taken seriouslyunderscore the misanthropic quality of the speaker’s musingsindicate the cause and impromptu nature of the speaker’s reflectionsraise the possibility that the speaker’s ideas are unusually self-indulgentintroduce an incongruity between the speaker’s perceptions and objective factIn the poem as a whole, the speaker suggestions that the “noises” (line 2) areannoyingenigmaticcheerfulominousunthinkingIn line 3, “proper” is best understood to meangenteelprecisefittingexcellentpeculiarIn line 5, “ran through” is best understood to meanhastened throughpersisted throughperformedspreadpiercedWhich of the following statements is most consistent with the idea conveyed in line 9 (“Not…lying”)?Plants and animals continuously practice virtue.Truth is the most valuable virtue.The beauty of flowers is a kind of truth.Lying upsets the natural order.Plants and animals have no understanding of deceit.The third stanza draws an implicit contrast between thespeaker and other peoplerobin and the rest of the natural worldflowers and other plantsflowers and the robinnatural world and human beingsLine 13 (“Let…betters”) makes use of which literary technique?HyperboleEuphemismOnomatopoeiaAlliterationCaesureIn the final stanza, the speaker most directly suggests thatlanguage is essential to what it means to be humanlanguage is less reliable than people believepeople’s feelings can be expressed only in languagepeople wrongly believe that language separates them from naturelanguage tends to make people less sympathetic to one anotherThe poem is characterized by its use ofirregular rhymeinternal rhymebroken rhymerhymed coupletsalternately-rhymed quatrainsThe poem as a whole is best interpreted as suggesting thatlanguage often makes humans feel estranged from one anotheranimals live richer lives than humans do because they do not fear deathloneliness is the inherent condition of all living thingsonly humans have the burden of consciousnessmost humans long to be less alienated from natureShort List of QUESTION STEMS for AP Lit ORGANIZED BY PoetryTo start…Which of the following devices is dominant in the first stanza?In the first section of the poem (lines_____), the speaker seeks to convey a feeling ofCheck reading comprehension…Which of the following best sums up what is said in lines _____?Lines ____ are best understood to mean thatThe phrase "" (line _____) is best interpreted to mean thatThe phrase "" (line _____) is best understood asWhich of the following best paraphrases the meaning of line _____The image of "" (line _____) is a reference toIn context, which of the following depends on "" (line _____)The main point made about _____ and _____in lines ______ is thatLines _____ suggest thatIn line _____ the phrase "" refers toIn lines _____, the ____ is compared toIn lines _____, "___ " suggests thatIn line ____, " " refers to the idea that theWhich of the following best restates the meaning of lines _____ ?When the speaker says _____ (lines _____), he means thatIn line _____"" is best paraphrased asLine _____suggests which of the followingEffect of literary devices…The phrase "" (lines ____) presents an example of [IDENTIFY LIT DEVICE]" " (line ____) refers metaphorically toWhich of the following best describes the effect of the metaphor in lines _____?In line ____, "" functions as which of the following (an adjective modifying/an adverb modifying)Which of the following is an irony presented in the poem?A major rhetorical shift in the poem occurs in line _____The basic meter of the poem isThe poem contains which of the following? [LIT DEVICE]A principal purpose of the use of "" (line ____ ) is to foreshadow/emphasize/serve/compensate/contrastThe diction used to describe _______ in lines_____ suggest thatWhich of the following lines contains an example of personification (or other LIT DEVICE)?Lines _____have all of the following functions EXCEPT (to return/illustrate/link/emphasize/evoke)The _____'s words (lines __) convey a sense of [TONE]One effect of "" (line ___) is to emphasize the speaker's feeling ofGrammatically, the word "" (line ____) functions asThe poem is best described as {form}Line presents an example ofThe imagery of the poem is characterized byThe title suggests which of the following?The images in lines ______ ("") contrast most directly withThe structure of the poem is determined by the speaker's (emotions/movements/ideas/values/history)All of the following verbs have the same subject EXCEPTThe speaker…In lines _____, the speaker is asserting thatIn lines _____ , the speaker regards himself asBeginning in line _____ , the speaker does which of the followingThe speaker is best described aThe poem dramatizes the moment when the speakerThe work as a whole or addressing the end…Which of the following best describes the poem as a whole?Which of the following best describes ______at the end of the passage?In the last section of the poem, the speaker implies that The tone throughout the poem is best described as one ofTONE POSITIVEHappyamiableblithecheery contenteddelightfulebullientecstatic effusiveelatedelevatedenthusiastic euphoricexuberantgleefuljoyful jubilantsprightlyPleasedamused appreciative cheerful enrapturedlaudatorypeaceful playful pleasantsatisfied whimsicalFriendly, Courteousaccommodatingadmiringapproving benevolentcaressing comforting compassionatecomplimentaryconciliatoryconfiding cordialcourteous easyempatheticencouragingforgiving gracioushelpful indulgentinterestedintimatekindly obligingpityingpolite sociable solicitoussoothing sympathetictender tolerant trustingAnimatedardentbreathless brisk celebratorycrisp eagerearnestecstatic energetic exaltedexcited exhilaratedexpectantfeverishhasty hearty hopeful impassionedinspiredlively passionate rapturousvigorousRomanticadoringaffectionate amorouseroticfancifulferventideal lustful sensualtenderworshipfulTranquilcalm dreamyhopeful laid backlightlyricalmeditativeoptimistic placidreassuringrelaxed sanguineserenesoothing spiritual TONE NEUTRALFrequently Used TonesDOMINEERINGauthoritativedirectforcefulformalhigh-handedinsistentsternFAMILIARcolloquialconversationalinformalmatter-of-fact understatedbaffledEMOTIONALdisbelieving nostalgic reminiscentsentimentalshocked somberurgentLEARNEDclinicialcomplexceremonial factual indirectinformative objectivequestioning restrainedstableunambiguousvenerativeRational/Logicaladmonitoryargumentative candid coaxing criticalcurious deliberate didactic doubting eloquentexplanatoryfrankimpartialincredulousincisiveindignantinnocent insinuatinginstructive introspectiveoracularpensive persuasive pithypleadingpreoccupied probingpuzzled reflectivescholarlysincere speculativestudiedthoughtfuluncertain unequivocalSelf-Controlledcautious coolforthrightgentle imperturbablemildmotivatednonchalantprudentreservedreticentserene serious simple sobersolemnsubduedtemperate waryApatheticambivalentblasébored casualcolorless defeated detacheddispassionatedrydull feeblehelpless hopelessindifferentinertlanguidlethargicmonotonousresignedsluggishstoical stolidsophisticatedvacantTONE--HUMOROUS/ IRONIC/ SARCASTIC amused bantering belittling bemusedbitter causticcomicalcondescendingcontemptuouscynical disdainfuldrollfacetiousflippantgiddyhaughtyhilarious humorous insolentinsultingironic irreverent jocundjoking jovialludicrousmalicious mischievousmirthfulmock-heroicmocking mock-serious patronizing playful pompousquizzicalribald ridiculing risiblesarcastic sardonic satiricscornfulsharpsilly taunting teasinguproariouswhimsicalwryTONENEGATIVEGenerally Negativeabhorringaccusing acerbicaggravated agitated ambiguousambivalentangry arrogantartificial audacious belligerent bitingbitter bluntbrashbrusquechildish choleric coarsecold condemnatorycondescending contradictory critical desperate disappointeddisgruntled disgusted disinterested dislikingembarrassedevasivefuriousharsh hateful hurtful indignant inflammatoryinsulting irritated manipulative obnoxiouspassive quarrelsomeshameful sinisterskepticalslysuperficial surlytestythreatening uninterestedvitriolicSADbleakdepressingdesolatedespairing despondent drearyelegiaceulogisticforebodingghoulishgloomy grimlugubriousmelancholy maudlin mournfulregretful sepulchraltragicPAINFULannoyed bitter bored crushed disappointeddisgusted dismalfretfulirritable miserablemournful pathetic plaintivequeruloussoresorrowful sour sulky sullentroubleduneasy vexedworriedUnfriendlyaccusing antagonisticbelittling beratingboorish contentiouscurtcutting derisivederogatorydifficultdisparaging impatientimpudent pitiless reproachful reproving scoldingsevere spiteful suspicious unsociable uncaringunconcernedunsympatheticAngrybelligerent enragedfurious hostileindignant livid outragedsavagewrathfulPassionatediabolicfierce franticgreedy hystericalinsane impetuous impulsive jealous nervousoutspokenpsychoticpowerfulreckless ridiculousstridenttensevoraciouswildzealous Arrogant/Self-Importantassured beratingboastful bold bombasticbossycommandingconceitedcondescending confident contemptuous defiant demandingdidactic dignifieddisrespectfuldomineering egotistical grandholier-than-thouimperious impressive knowing lofty pedantic peremptory pompouspretentiousprofound proudresolute saucyself-assuredselfishself-righteous sententious smugstatelystiff supercilious terseSorry/Fearful/Worriedaggravated anxious apologeticapprehensive bewilderedconcernedconfused depressed disturbed doubtfulembarrassingenigmaticfatalisticfearfulgravehollowmelancholymorosenervous numbominous paranoidpessimistic poignantremorsefulserious staidSubmissive/Timidabashedaghastalarmed ashamed astonished astoundedawed contrite diffident docile fawninggroveling ingratiating insecuremeek modestobedientobsequiousresigned respectful reverent self-deprecatory servileshy submissive surprised sycophanticterrifiedtimid timoroustremulousunpretentiouswillingVERBSaccentuates accepts achieves adopts advocatesaffects alleviates allows alludes altersanalyzes approaches argues ascertainsassessesassumes attacks attempts attributes avoidsbases believes beratescajoleschallenges changes characterizeschooses chronicles claims comments comparescompels completes concerns concludes condescendsconducts conforms confronts considers contendscontests contrasts contributes conveys convincesdefines defies demonstrates depictsdescribesdelineatesdespises details determines developsdeviatesdifferentiatesdiffers directs disappointsdiscovers discusses displays disputes disruptsdistinguishes distorts downplays dramatizeselevateselicits emphasizes encounters enhances enrichesenumeratesenvisions evokes excludes expandsexperiences explains expresses extends extrapolatesfantasizes focuses forces foreshadows functionsgeneralizesguides heightens highlights hintsholds honors identifies illustrates illuminatesimagines impels implies includes indicatesinfers inspires intends interprets interruptsinundates justifies juxtaposeslambastslamentslampoonslists maintains makes managesmanipulates minimizes moralizesmusesnotesobserves opposes organizes overstates outlinespatronizes performspermits personifiespersuadesponders portrays postulates prepares presentspresumes produces projects promotes proposesprovides qualifies questions rationalizes reasonsrecalls recites recollects records recountsreflects refers regards regrets rejectsrepresents results reveals ridicules satirizesseems sees selects specifies speculatesstates strivessuggests summarizes suppliessupports suppresses symbolizes sympathizes tracesunderstands vacillatesvalues verifiesVERBS TO USE INSTEAD OF EXEMPLIFIESappears asserts attests to certifies confirmsconnotes corroborates defines demonstrates denotes.depicts discloses elucidatesendorses establishesevinces exhibits expounds exposes intimatesmanifests points to proves ratifiesrelatesshows substantiatessuggests typifies upholdsvalidatesADJECTIVESculturedintellectual erudite well-read sagacioussensible rational philosophicanalytical imaginativeperceptive visionaryprophetic optimistic broad-mindedidealistic spiritual orthodoxunorthodox sympatheticsophisticated original whimsical humorous conservativeliberal progressiveradicalreactionaryunprejudicedrealisticromantic shallow superficial bigotedopinionated intolerant hypocritical fanatical provincialnarrow-mindedsentimental skepticalcynicalDESCRIBING STYLE/CONTENTlucid graphic intelligible explicitpreciseexact concise succinct condensedpithypiquant aphoristic syllogisticallusive metaphoricalpoetic prosaicplain simple homespunpure vigorousforceful eloquent sonorousfluent glib natural restrainedsmoothpolishedclassical artistic bombasticextravagantrhetorical turgidpompousgrandioseobscurevague diffuseverbosepedanticponderousungraceful harsh abrupt labored awkwardunpolished crude vulgar formal artificialutilitarian humanistic pragmatic naturalisticimpressionisticsubjective melodramatic fanciful authentic plausiblecredible reconditecontroversial mystical improbableabsurd trivial commonplace hereticalDESCRIBING DICTIONhigh or formallow or informal neutral precise exactconcrete abstract plain simplehomespunesotericlearned cultured literal figurativeconnotative symbolic picturesque sensuous literaryprovincial colloquial slang idiomatic inexact euphemistictrite obscure pedanticbombasticgrotesque vulgar jargon emotionalobtuse moralistic ordinary scholarly insipidproper pretentiousold-fashionedDESCRIBING SYNTAXloose periodicbalanced interrupted simplecompound complex compound-complex declarative interrogativeimperative exclamatory telegraphic antitheticinvertedeuphonic rhythmicalepigrammatic emphatic incoherentrambling tortuous jerky cacophonicmonotonousspare austereunadornedjumbled chaoticobfuscatingjournalisticterse laconicmellifluousmusical lilting lyrical elegant solidthudding dry ornate elaborate floweryerudite grating staccato abrupt sprawlinghortativeDEVICES SPECIFIC TO POETRY ANALYSIS__________similemetaphorpersonificationapostrophemetonymysymbolallegoryparadoxoverstatementunderstatementironyallusiontonealliterationassonanceconsonancemeteronomatopoeiasonnetvillanellestanzaheroic coupletsblank verseiambictrochaichexameterepithethyperbolesynecdocheparadoxhyperboleeuphemismcaesuraode1.(A)(B)(C)(D)(E)2.(A)(B)(C)(D)(E)3.(A)(B)(C)(D)(E)4.(A)(B)(C)(D)(E)5.(A)(B)(C)(D)(E) ................
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