Poetry Exam

Mulitiple choice section

The first part is what I call the easy part.  There are questions over the chapters in your book that cover terminology and interpretation of poetry.  If you haven't read the chapters in the book this section might not be so easy.  If you have been staying up with your assignments and asking questions in class to clarify what you don't understand then you should be fine.

The next part is actual AP exam questions.  You'll have a poem to read and questions that follow.  These will obviously also ask for your knowledge on terminology and interpretation.

In-class essay

This will be an AP exam prompt in which it gives you a poem to read and a prompt to answer that asks you to analyze and interpret the poem.  You should essentially write an explication.  Refer to the examples in your textbook for what that will look like.

To study I would recommend studying your terms and making sure that you know how to analyze a poem, looking for all the devices that your textbook has covered.