My strong suit in analyzing literature most definitely lies in being able to skim a passage quickly and be able to answer most of the questions without really looking back at the passage. I am good at determining authors purpose, especially for individual lines or words, and hardly ever have issues with those problems. I also typically pick up on what is going on behind the scenes, the unwritten messages, especially with poems. I am good at picking up hints in the poem that point to authors purpose, setting, and other details like that that are often not specifically stated. I also do not usually miss problems that ask you to infer something from the passage, or that ask what blank refers to.
And my weak points. Too many to talk about. I am absolutely terrible at identifying tone. For some reason, I get questions about tone wrong all the time. That has always been a big problem for me. Also, I have no clue what the lyrics and sonnets and ballads and dramatic monologues and odes and elegy's and whatevers are. Not even a smidgen of an idea. I also don't get the questions where it asks you to identify what blank refers to, or what blank is parallel to. I seem to have a hard time drawing connections between separate lines in passages. I also usually get wrong questions that ask me to translate old english into modern english, or what the old english really means.
My first, most obvious, and (hopefully) easiest goal is to have learned all of the types of poems and passages by the AP Exam. All of the lyrics and sonnets and all that jazz. I need to do this because there were several questions about them on the practice exam, and I got them all wrong. But those are easy questions that are a piece of cake if you know the answer, and impossible if you don't. I need to get those easy points.
My second goal is to be able to get 100% of the questions that talk about referring, paralleling, and inferring correct on one of the practice exams we take in class. It doesn't matter which one, I just want to be able to show that I improved my skill in that category. Even if I don't get exactly 100%, I would be happy with a high percentage of those questions, since they seem like they should be easy. I think I just need to take more time going through the passages so I remember more of it, instead of rushing through the questions like I usually do. My third goal is to get 100% of the tone questions correct on one practice exam. I like these two goals because they sum up the majority of my weak spots in analysis questions. I don't think the tone questions are that hard, I just need to make sure I pay more attention to the authors purpose, and the adjectives the author uses to find out what the tone is.
And my weak points. Too many to talk about. I am absolutely terrible at identifying tone. For some reason, I get questions about tone wrong all the time. That has always been a big problem for me. Also, I have no clue what the lyrics and sonnets and ballads and dramatic monologues and odes and elegy's and whatevers are. Not even a smidgen of an idea. I also don't get the questions where it asks you to identify what blank refers to, or what blank is parallel to. I seem to have a hard time drawing connections between separate lines in passages. I also usually get wrong questions that ask me to translate old english into modern english, or what the old english really means.
My first, most obvious, and (hopefully) easiest goal is to have learned all of the types of poems and passages by the AP Exam. All of the lyrics and sonnets and all that jazz. I need to do this because there were several questions about them on the practice exam, and I got them all wrong. But those are easy questions that are a piece of cake if you know the answer, and impossible if you don't. I need to get those easy points.
My second goal is to be able to get 100% of the questions that talk about referring, paralleling, and inferring correct on one of the practice exams we take in class. It doesn't matter which one, I just want to be able to show that I improved my skill in that category. Even if I don't get exactly 100%, I would be happy with a high percentage of those questions, since they seem like they should be easy. I think I just need to take more time going through the passages so I remember more of it, instead of rushing through the questions like I usually do. My third goal is to get 100% of the tone questions correct on one practice exam. I like these two goals because they sum up the majority of my weak spots in analysis questions. I don't think the tone questions are that hard, I just need to make sure I pay more attention to the authors purpose, and the adjectives the author uses to find out what the tone is.
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