Twas the Night Before the AP Lit Test

Twas the night before the AP Lit test, when all through the 404 fam,
Not a spondee was stirring, not even an iamb
The prompts are awaiting for your eye
Ready to grant you a scintillating five
So my bibliophiles of this year or two,
Prior to our breakfast and, of course, coffee too
Hearken to the novels, the lens, the meter, the feet
Remember the voltas and the characters we did meet
Attack those multiple choice passages even if not so fine
And write about poetry, prose, and free response to score all nines.

Sorry that was not up to the level of your reading abilities at this point after a year of AP Lit (I probably disappointed Keatsy there), but I am very proud of all the work you have done this year in Lit - look at all the novels, plays, and poems that have helped you aggrandize into literary critics, ready to slash through a poem for its enjambment, its caesura, its stanzas, its meter or delve into the characterization - hey, don't forget those character types - of minor details, dialogue, and conflict. Yes, it is important to review the terms (and spelling for some of you) and to remember that you underline novels and plays and place quotation marks around poems. However, you have the ethos now for the occupation hand and will do the best that you can! Oops, the rhyming continues. Thanks for taking AP Lit and putting up with me. I hope you have learned a lot for not just the AP exam but your future endeavors.

Breakfast will be ready around 6:45, our toast at 7:10, and our walk to the foyer at 7:20!

P.S. Fifth hour shirts are here, and they are darling! Fingers crossed that second hour arrives tomorrow!