AP PREP POST 1: SIDDHARTHA

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1. Questions

1. Which figure of speech used in paragraph 1 helps to illustrate Siddhartha’s sudden standstill?

a. Metaphor
b. Simile

c. Alliteration

d. Personification

e. Irony

2. The quotation “Immediately he moved on again and began to walk quickly and impatiently, no longer homewards, no longer to his father, no longer looking backwards”, shows a shift from…

a. Anger and resentment, toward acceptance

b. A resolute journey, onto a more free-flowing and spontaneous path

c. Fear of his parentage, toward a fear of loneliness

d. Looking to the past for enlightenment, toward looking to the future and within himself
e. Fear of failure, toward an acceptance of possibility of error.

3. The mood of paragraph 3 is best described as

a. Joyful

b. Afraid

c. Isolated

d. Indifferent

e. Apprehensive

4. The tone of paragraphs 1 & 2 is
a. Epiphanic

b.Frightened

c. Hesitant

d. Hateful

5. In paragraph three, which of the following literacy devices most significantly describes Siddhartha’s innermost feelings?

a. imagery

b. similes

c. metaphors

d. alliteration

e. diction

2. What do these questions tell you about the AP exam? What do you need to "see" when you read a passage?
When I took the AP English Language test last year I was frightened by how many questions there was on literary terms. I did not know many and the few ones I knew were not ones I had mastered. These questions tell me that I will have to quickly analyze the tone diction of what I am reading. I do not really have to know the content I just have to understand how it is being presented. When I read a passage I need to be able to see and identify the tone, a comparison and/or transition.

 c) Explain what the questions tell you about the skills/content you need to master for the AP exam.

These questions tell me that I am going to have to work on being able to identify literary terms in the content given to me. I am going to have to be able to know the Literary terms very well in order to answer the questions quickly and correct. I also need to focus as I am reading so I will not have to spend time re-reading the passage over and over.