Transcript AP Practice Exams

AP Practice Exams
Hamlet Applied Practice Passage One
and Two
Reminders…
 50% is a good score
 Most folks hovered between a 5 or 7
out of 15
 Highest = 9/15
 Desirably = 8/15
 This is hard!
Questions
 Did you read the questions first?
 Did it help? Did you hate it?
 Did you use process of elimination?
 Did you skip difficult questions?
 Did you get to all the questions?
Question One Correct Answer
 C. Paradox
 Personally, I had a hard time deciding
between Irony and Paradox
 Seeming contradictions:
 “sometime sister, now our queen”
 “defeated joy”
 “mirth in funeral”; “dirge in marriage”
Question One Wrong Answers
 A. Irony – difference between Irony
and Paradox
 Irony is the exact opposite in what is said
and what is meant. It does not say
dramatic irony, so we shouldn’t go there
 Paradox, on the other hand, is a
statement that seems to be contradictory,
but when you think about it, it is true and
insightful. The intended message is the
same as the stated message
Question One: Wrong Answers
 B. Alliteration – “sometime sister”
and “delight and dole” are in the
passage, BUT, it can not be said that
it is a “primary” part of the passage
 D. Euphemism – What is
understated?
 E. Hyperbole – What is exaggerated?
Question Two: Correct Answer
 D. concerning
 “He hath not fail’d to pester us with
message/Importing the surrender of
those lands/Lost by his father”
 Remember: Read the whole sentence
and the sentence before and after before
deciding
 It is a message he is pestering them
with, and the message is about the
surrender of the lands his father lost
Question Two: Wrong Answers
 A. asking for – he is not asking for the
surrender of the land – he is building an
army to get the land back
 B. bringing in – he is not bringing the land
back into his property at the time
 C. demanding – He is not demanding them
– there’s no indication he is saying you
must give me the lands or else. He is
simply preparing an army to go and take
the land
 E. suggesting – refer to asking for
Question Three: Correct Answer
 C. belief that “old Norway” will not
serve as king much longer
 Nothing shows that they think the King
of Norway will die soon; yes, he is old
and sickly, but the very fact that they are
writing him to fix the problem indicates
their belief that he will live long enough
to calm Fortinbras
Question Three: Wrong Answers
 A. owe allegiance – “commend your
duty” (43)
 B. desire for swifty action – “let your
haste commend your duty” (42)
 D. concern for limits – “Giving to you
no further personal power” (39)
 E. confidence in the two – “We doubt
it nothing; heartily” (45)
Question Four: Correct Answer
 B. metonymy
 Is when a closely related object is used
to represent an object or concept or
person
 The throne is closely related to King
Claudius, so when he says that that
Laertes’ father is instrumental to the
throne, he is saying Polonius is helpful to
Claudius
Question Four: Correct Answer
 Other Examples
 The red pen could be used to refer to a
teacher who likes to correct in red pen
 The teacher could be used to refer to a
red pen
 Activity: Please write your own
metonymy about the person next to
you.
Question Four: Wrong Answers
 A. litotes
 Understatement – but it is a specific kind
of understatement – when the affirmative
statement is understated by saying a
negative statement
 Example: Say, you get a free ride to
Harvard, and your parents say, “Not bad”.
 Activity: Write your own litotes to
congratulate someone on winning the
lottery
Question Four: Wrong Answers
 C. syllepsis
 Use of a word to perform two syntactic
functions when the numbers don’t agree
 Huh????
 Example: Neither he nor we are willing to
go to the grocery story.
 He is singular; we is plural, so we use a
syllepsis – a rule to follow or a compromise to
make to allow one word to follow two rules:
ARE is allowed to function as singular and
plural
Question Four: Wrong Answers
 D. chiasmus
 Reversal of a parallel phrase
 Example: I go not to the store; the store
comes not to me.
 Activity: Please write the chiasmus
for this phrase:
 I love peanut butter ice cream.
Question Four: Wrong Answers
 E. synecdoche
 Use the part in place of the whole or vice
versa
 Example: Nice threads!
 The part = threads
 The whole it represents = clothes
 Example: Texas promotes the death
penalty.
 The whole = the state of Texas
 The part it represents = Texas legislature
WAIT! Synecdoche vs.
Metonymy???????????????
 These two are easily confused –
certain “experts” even say they are
the same thing, but that is not going
to fly.
 Metonymy – is a RELATED object
 Synecdoche is a PART of the SAME
object
Synecdoche vs. Metonymy
Ways to remember these silly words:
 My mommy is related to me
(metonymy), but my sin is a part of
me (synecdoche).
 My neck is a part of me, but Tony and
I are only related.
Activity – Write down your own way to
remember the difference
Question Five: Correct Answer
 C. I and II only
 Less than a son, but he does not look
favorably on the King
 Hamlet agrees that he is related – and
more than just a nephew (cousin means
kin), BUT he is less than made from the
same kind of stuff that Claudius is – he is
less than a son.
 The fact that he doesn’t want to be
considered his son = unfavorable tone
Question Five: Wrong Answers
 We will look just at III – he does NOT
reject the king’s notion that he is
related – he says, “more than kin”.
Question Six: Correct Answer
 A. pun
 A pun is a play on words – where a word
is meaning two things at once
 Hamlet says he is “too much in the sun”;
son = sun is the pun
 Claudius asks him why he is still gloomy,
and he says that he is in the sun too
much – this only really makes sense if he
is saying that he dislikes being
considered Claudius’ son.
Question Six: Wrong Answers
 B. allusion
 He is not alluding to anything
 C. metaphor
 The sun is not representing anything else
 D. symbol
 There is no symbol with the sun
 E. oxymoron
 There is no phrase with opposing words
side by side
Questions Seven: Correct Answer
 E. 1st = external; 2nd = internal