Literature Exam Structure Overview
The literature exam consists of multiple-choice questions, essays, and analysis of prose and poetry passages. The exam includes evaluating literary devices, character development, and author's techniques. Students must analyze the impact of environment on characters, poetic devices, and literary elements to demonstrate understanding of the texts provided.
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Multiple Choice 45% of your overall score 4-5 passages (combination of poetry, prose, and drama) 10-15 questions per passage 55 questions, 60 minutes
Essays 55% of your overall score 3 essays, 120 minutes (approximately 40 minutes each) Prose Poetry Open
2015 Prose: The following excerpt is from the opening of The Beet Queen, a 1986 novel by Louise Erdrich. Read the passage carefully. Then write a well- developed essay in which you analyze how Erdrich depicts the impact of the environment on the two children. You may wish to consider such literary devices as tone, imagery, selection of detail, and point of view.
2015 Poetry: In the following poem by Caribbean writer Derek Walcott, the speaker recalls a childhood experience of visiting an elderly woman storyteller. Read the poem carefully. Then, in a well- developed essay, discuss the speaker s recollection and analyze how Walcott uses poetic devices to convey the significance of the experience.
2014 Prose: The following passage is from the novel The Known World by Edward P. Jones. Read the passage carefully. Then, in a well-organized essay, analyze how the author reveals the character of Moses. In your analysis, you may wish to consider such literary elements as point of view, selection of detail, and imagery.
2014 Poetry: The following poem is by the sixteenth-century English poet George Gascoigne. Read the poem carefully. Then write an essay in which you analyze how the complex attitude of the speaker is developed through such devices as form, diction, and imagery.
Is determining what the prompt wants you to do! Change the prompt to TWO QUESTIONS. What question: What is the speaker doing? How question: How does the speaker do it? Try writing what/how questions for each of the prompts.
2015 Prose: The following excerpt is from the opening of The Beet Queen, a 1986 novel by Louise Erdrich. Read the passage carefully. Then write a well- developed essay in which you analyze how Erdrich depicts the impact of the environment on the two children. You may wish to consider such literary devices as tone, imagery, selection of detail, and point of view.
What is the impact of the environment on the children? How does the speaker use literary devices, such as tone, imagery, selection of detail, and point of view to depict the environment?
2015 Poetry: In the following poem by Caribbean writer Derek Walcott, the speaker recalls a childhood experience of visiting an elderly woman storyteller. Read the poem carefully. Then, in a well- developed essay, discuss the speaker s recollection and analyze how Walcott uses poetic devices to convey the significance of the experience.
What is significant about the childhood recollection of visiting an elderly woman story teller? How does the speaker use literary devices to convey the significance?
2014 Prose: The following passage is from the novel The Known World by Edward P. Jones. Read the passage carefully. Then, in a well-organized essay, analyze how the author reveals the character of Moses. In your analysis, you may wish to consider such literary elements as point of view, selection of detail, and imagery.
What is Moses like? How does the speaker use literary elements such as point of view, selection of detail, and imagery to character to reveal Moses character?
2014 Poetry: The following poem is by the sixteenth-century English poet George Gascoigne. Read the poem carefully. Then write an essay in which you analyze how the complex attitude of the speaker is developed through such devices as form, diction, and imagery.
What is the complex attitude of the speaker? How does the speaker use devices, such as form, diction, and imagery to convey the attitude?
FORM follows FUNCTION. Form literary devices Function the purpose the literary devices achieve Function is MOST important.
Close Reading can be completed on ANY text. Close reading is reading with a purpose. Close reading means reading and re- reading. Close reading is slow. Close reading means thinking about what you re reading.
1. Narrative: Who is speaking to whom? Talk about the speaker, not the author. What is going on? What is the situation? Is there a back story ? Can you imagine what happened before this? Point of View: first person, second person, third person limited, third person omniscient
2. DIDLS=Tone Diction: author s word choice, connotation and associations with the words chosen Which words stand out to you? Are there strong connotations on any words? Does the speaker use mainly one specific part of speech? Does the speaker use formal, informal, colloquial, or slang diction?
2. DIDLS=Tone Imagery: the images the author presents What does the author want you to see, smell, taste, touch, hear? Details: What details are included or omitted? Why does the speaker think it important to include or not include these specific details?
2. DIDLS=Tone Language (all those literary devices your teachers made you learn!) Figurative Language: Allegory, Apostrophe, Allusion, Hyperbole, Metaphor, Onomatopoeia, Personification, Simile, symbolism Repetition: Alliteration, Anaphora, Assonance, Consonance, Euphony, Cacophony, Rhyme Juxtaposition: Irony, Inversion, Paradox, Oxymoron, Pun, Satire
2. DIDLS=Tone Structure: How is the passage organized? Form Sentence structure/syntax Shift
3. Tone: The speakers attitude Should be based on the analysis conducted Use the tonal scale to help determine the speaker s attitude
4. Theme: the authors message Follow this template: Title, a genre by author is about abstract concept and reveals that theme. Punctuate titles correctly!!
