Abilities Tested
The AP Latin Literature exam tested students' abilities to:
- Translate literally a selected Latin passage
- Explicate certain words or phrases in context
- Identify the content and significance of selected excerpts
- Identify and analyze characteristic or noteworthy features of the authors' writing, including use of imagery, figures of speech, metrical and sound effects
- Discuss particular themes or motifs, not only those suggested by passages, but also those relevant to other sections
- Analyze and discuss structure, as well as demonstrate awareness of the features used in the construction of a poem or argument
- Scan the meter of selections
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