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6 Practice Plan for Studying for the SAT II: Literature Test.. THE SAT II: LITERATURE TEST COVERS DIFFERENT GENRES.Study Strategy See Chapters 2 and 3 for more about analyzing prose and

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“The Soul selects her own Society” reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of Amherst College from THE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON, Thomas H Johnson, ed., Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Copyright 1951, 1955,

1979 by The President and Fellows of Harvard College

by permission of Simon & Schuster

“Night Clouds” from THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF AMY LOWELL Copyright 1955 by Houghton Mifflin Co Renewed 1983 by Houghton Mifflin Co., Brinton P Roberts and G D’Andelot Belin, Esq Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Co All rights reserved

“There’s a certain slant of light” reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of Amherst College from THE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON, Thomas H Johnson, ed., Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Copyright 1951, 1955,

1979 by The President and Fellows of Harvard College

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Quick Reference Guide vii

Table of Literary Works ix

Red Alert Top 10 Strategies for Acing the Test 1

10 Facts About the SAT II: Literature Test 2

Scoring High on the SAT II: Literature Test 6

Practice Plan for Studying for the SAT II: Literature Test 9

The Panic Plan 13

Why Take the Diagnostic Test? 15

Diagnostic Test 17

Answers and Explanations 37

Chapter 1 Strategies for the SAT II: Literature Test 53

Chapter 2 Elements of Prose 63

Practice Set 86

Chapter 3 Elements of Poetry 93

Practice Set 112

Chapter 4 A Quick Review of Literary Terms 117

Chapter 5 A Quick Review of Usage 129

Practice Test 1 137

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QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE

Analyzing Poetry Chart 106

Analyzing Prose Chart 84

Analyzing the Questions: Strategies for Determining Answers 60

Attacking the Questions: Practical Advice 59

Basic Information About the SAT II: Literature Test 54

Character and Characterization in Poetry 103

Character and Characterization in Prose 79

Elements of Style: The Poet’s Techniques 100

Elements of Style: Language Use in Prose 77

Form in Poetry 95

Form in Prose 69

Meaning in Context 104

Meaning and Message in Poetry 94

Meaning and Message in Prose 65

Organizational Patterns in Prose 72

Reading Effectively: Techniques for the SAT II Poetry Selections 108

6 IMPORTANT STRATEGIES

1 Highlight the key words in the question so you will know what you are looking for in the answer choices

2 With a not/except question, ask yourself if an answer choice is true about the subject of the

question If it is true, cross it off and keep checking answers

3 If you aren’t sure about an answer, but you know something about the question, eliminate what you know is wrong and make an educated guess

4 All parts of an answer choice must be correct for the answer to be correct

5 Don’t rely on your memory; refer to the passage For poetry, read a line or two above and below the reference

6 Read all the choices before you choose your answer A snap judgment could cost you a quarter point

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Reading Effectively: Techniques for the SAT II Prose

Selections 81

Tone in Poetry 97

Tone in Prose 73

Voice in Poetry 98

Voice in Prose 75

For additional review material, be sure to read the “Answers and Explanations” Diagnostic Test 17

Practice Test 1 137

Practice Test 2 171

Practice Test 3 209

Practice Test 4 245

Practice Test 5 281

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TABLE OF LITERARY WORKS

The following list represents all the works of literature discussed in this book:

DIAGNOSTIC TEST Robert Burns, “My Heart’s in the Highlands” 20

William Faulkner, “Address to the Graduating Class, University High School, Oxford, Mississippi” 23

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Splendor Falls” 26

Henry David Thoreau, from Civil Disobedience 28

Emily Dickinson, “The Soul selects her own Society—” 31

William Shakespeare, from A Midsummer Night’s Dream 33

CHAPTER 2 Thomas Paine, from The Crisis . 86

CHAPTER 3 William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 29” 112

PRACTICE TEST 1 William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 18” 140

Ralph Waldo Emerson, from Self-Reliance 142

Elizabeth Coatsworth, “July Storm” 145

Amy Lowell, “Night Clouds” 145

Charles Dickens, from Great Expectations 148

Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Spring” 151

Abigail Adams, “Letter to Her Daughter from the New White House” 153

William Blake, “Holy Thursday” 156

PRACTICE TEST 2 Hector St John de Crèvecoeur, from the third essay of Letters from an American Farmer 174

Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess” 177

Paul Laurence Dunbar, “Douglass” 181

James Boswell, from “Feelings” in The Life of Samuel Johnson 183

William Cullen Bryant, “To a Waterfowl” 186

George Herbert, “Easter Wings” 188

Charlotte Brontë, from Jane Eyre 190

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PRACTICE TEST 3 Oliver Wendell Holmes, “Old Ironsides” 212

John Bunyan, from “Vanity Fair” in Pilgrim’s Progress 215

Edgar Allan Poe, “Eldorado” 218

William Blake, “London” 220

William Wordsworth, “London, 1802” 220

Mark Twain, “Advice to Little Girls” 223

Christina Rossetti, “A Birthday” 226

Charles Dickens, from Hard Times 228

PRACTICE TEST 4 George Gordon, Lord Byron, “The Destruction of Sennacherib” 248

Mark Twain, from Roughing It 250

William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 55” 253

Mary Shelley, from “Introduction” to Frankenstein 255

Paul Laurence Dunbar, “We Wear the Mask” 260

Walt Whitman, from “Preface” to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass 262

Oliver Wendell Holmes, “The Chambered Nautilus” 265

PRACTICE TEST 5 Emil Brugsch Bey, from “Finding the Pharaoh” 284

Emily Dickinson, “There’s a certain Slant of light” 287

Mary Wollstonecraft, from A Vindication of the Rights of Women 289

William Blake, “The Lamb” 293

William Blake, “The Tiger” 293

H.D., “Heat” 296

Benjamin Franklin, from “Dialogue Between Gout and Mr Franklin” 298

James Russell Lowell, “The First Snowfall” 302 TABLE OF LITERARY WORKS

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3 THE SAT II: LITERATURE TEST COVERS DIFFERENT GENRES.

Study Strategy

See Chapters 2 and 3 for

more about analyzing prose

and poetry.

All the selections in the SAT II: Literature Test come from works of English and American literature written from the Renaissance to the present The works represent poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama

A test has six to eight selections, which are about evenly divided between poetry and prose The number of questions for a selection ranges from four to twelve, and there are approximately sixty multiple-choice questions on the test

The College Board breaks the time frame of the literature used

in the test into the following periods:

• 30 percent is based on literature of the Renaissance and 17th century;

• 30 percent is based on literature of the 18th and 19th centu-ries;

• 40 percent is based on literature of the 20th century

The information about the test says that students are not expected to have read the selections on the test It is assumed that if you have learned the skills of literary analysis well and know what is character-istic of certain periods and certain authors, you will be able to successfully analyze pieces you have never seen before

4 THE SAT II: LITERATURE TEST ASKS ONLY MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS. Study Strategy

See Chapters 2 and 3 for

specific information about

answering questions on

poetry and on prose.

The SAT II: Literature Test does not contain an essay section The test

is made up of approximately sixty multiple-choice questions The questions are not arranged in order of difficulty, so you will not find all the easy questions at the beginning and all the difficult ones at the end

The test uses a variety of types and prompts for its questions You may find EXCEPT, LEAST, and NOT (reverse true/false) ques-tions There may also be tiered, or multistep, questions that use Roman numerals for the first part and the usual five-choice responses for the second part Some questions will refer you to specific words

or lines in the test Some prompts may be questions and some may

be sentence completions All will require you ultimately to choose the best response from among five possible answers

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5 PACING YOURSELF IS IMPORTANT IN ANSWERING QUESTIONS ON THE SAT II:

LITERATURE TEST.

Study Strategy

See Chapter 1 for more on

pacing.

You will have 60 minutes to answer approximately sixty questions That means reading the selection, reading the question and the five answers, checking the selection to make sure of your answer, and marking the correct answer oval on the answer sheet You may not

be able to answer all sixty questions, but you will not be penalized for questions that are left unanswered A pacing strategy will help you answer more questions

6 EDUCATED GUESSING CAN HELP.

Study Strategy

See “Scoring High” for more

information on how scores

are computed.

While your score will not be affected by unanswered questions, each question that is answered incorrectly will result in a quarter-point deduction In computing your score, the College Board awards one point for each correct answer and deducts a quarter point for each incorrect answer The College Board suggests guessing an answer IF you know something about the question and can eliminate several answer choices Call it “educated guessing.”

7 YOU CAN TAKE THE SAT II: LITERATURE TEST MORE THAN ONCE IF YOU

WANT TO TRY TO BRING UP YOUR SCORE.

There is no limit to the number of times you can take an SAT II test All scores will be reported to the colleges of your choice You shouldn’t worry if your first score isn’t as high as you would like Admissions officers take into consideration a range of scores

8 WHETHER AND WHEN YOU SHOULD TAKE THE SAT II: LITERATURE TEST

DEPENDS ON THE COLLEGES TO WHICH YOU ARE APPLYING.

Not all colleges require SAT II: Subject Tests, so check the catalogs and Web sites of the colleges to which you are applying in order to see which tests, if any, they require Some colleges may require SAT II: Subject Tests for admission, whereas others may use the tests for placement

The SAT II: Literature Test is administered six times a year: October, November, December, January, May, and June To use the test for regular admission, you will need to take it in November or January of your senior year For early admission, you will need to take

it earlier If the college you are going to attend uses the test for placement only, you may be able to wait until May or June of your senior year

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Even if the schools to which you are applying do not require the test, it may be helpful for you to add the score to your other docu-ments Because courses may vary widely from school to school, the SAT II: Subject Tests provide a degree of comparability among student grades

9 ALL INFORMATION ABOUT REGISTRATION AND FEES IS AVAILABLE FROM THE

COLLEGE BOARD.

To take the SAT I or any SAT II: Subject Tests, you will need to register with the College Board See your guidance counselor for a

copy of the SAT II Registration Bulletin or write or call:

College Board SAT Program P.O Box 6200

Princeton, NJ 08541-6200 609-771-7600

Also ask for a copy of Taking the SAT II: Subject Tests The Bulletin

lists test sites and dates and has information about the process for having your scores reported to colleges In certain cases, financial help is available for the registration fee Accommodations can also be made for students with disabilities Ask your guidance counselor or the College Board if you think that you qualify

You may take as many as three SAT II: Subject Tests on any one day, but if you are taking the SAT II: Writing Test or a Language Test with Listening, either will be the first test that you take on that day

10 STUDYING FOR THE TEST CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

The first step in studying for the Literature Test is to learn the format and the directions Then you will not waste time on the day of the test trying to understand what you are supposed to do

The second step is to review the elements of poetry and prose

So turn the page and get started Stop first at pages 9–13 and read the

“Practice Plan for Studying for the SAT II: Literature Test.”

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