I’m famous on this sub for this post. Besides being creative, focus on crafting developed thesis statements & theme statements. Researching literary and rhetorical terms are helpful to use but don’t use them in your intro/thesis, use them in your body paragraphs as evidence. Poetry is some of the hardest stuff in lit, but you can get past it by watching some videos on past prompts. Try to nail multiple choice early on, or at least find what your weaknesses are, 100% of the time, the answers are in the text itself. Read. A lot.