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AP English Literature and Composition Question 1: Poetry Analysis (2019) Sample Student Responses 1 The student responses in this packet were selected from the 2019 Reading and have been rescored using the new rubrics for 2020. Commentaries for each sample are provided in a separate document.
For Question 1, the poetry analysis question, students were asked to and respond to the following prompt: Carefully read P. K. Page’s 1943 poem “The Landlady.” Then, in a well-organized essay, analyze the speaker’s complex portrayal of the landlady. You may wish to consider such elements as imagery, selection of detail, and tone.
imagery in this poem helps the reader visualize memories she shared with her brother, mother, and father. Furthermore, the tone of the poem is nostalgic since she is reflecting on her childhood. These elements together are used to explain the significance of each memory. Harper uses visual imagery along with auditory imagery to recount her ...
We choose our AP Poetry Analysis prompts not just to prepare students for the essay on the AP Literature exam, but also to introduce the major themes of the novel or play through a complementary text that addresses the subject matter through a different lens.
in a community: an infant’s birth shortly followed by an octopus’s walking out of the sea. Read the passage carefully. Then, in a well-written essay, analyze how the author uses literary elements and techniques to develop a complex characterization of the community. In your response you should do the following:
Throughout the analysis the essay references small and specific domestic details from the poem that create nostalgia for the childhood house, e.g., invoking “the homey ‘security of [her mother’s] footsteps’”
