Class Notes Week Seven 11/15-11/26



Ap Test Strategies

1. Know what you are supposed to do
2. Know your enemy!
3. Know yourself!

How to read passages:

• read over once
• go back and read more slowly
• DO EVERYTHING SLOWLY AND CAREFULLY!

Common Types of Questions
Rhetorical Function: explain the purpose of a sentence, group of sentences, whole paragraph, or line/stanza of poetry in relation to the rest of the piece. Ask what that section does.
Context: identify meaning of a word used in the context of a passage.
Antecedent:  mainly deals with syntax-grammar; asks which antecedent the quoted word is referring to
Style: choices author has made
Tone: identify tone of passage

Hamlet



• Based on a Norse legend composed by Saxo Grammaticus, Latin 1200 AD
• Gesia Danorum or history of the Danes. Hamlet comes from books 3 and 4
• Hamlet is a revenge tragedy( revenge tragedies also know as tragedy of blood)

Tragedy

• Tragedy- an imitation of a single undefined action.
• Deals with the fall of a good, believable and consistent character

Plot May Include:

• Hero hesitation
• hero insanity (pretend or not)
• hero contemplates suicide
• multiple levels of intrigue
• able scheming villian abundance of philosophical siloques
• death