American Literature / Unit 19 AML 1810 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Terms Band: What Gets Asked
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The idea
Fifteen to twenty percent asks for familiarity with critical terms, verse forms and literary devices. The board's second sample question is of this kind, asking for the form of a passage and offering allegory, burlesque, epistle, fable and parody as the five choices.
In practice
Critical terms, verse forms, literary devices.
Where people slip
A sixth of the exam is vocabulary you can study.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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