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AP Free Response Questions

Teacher Notes

A Note for Teachers ...............................................................................7

Teaching Resources

Strategies for Free Response Questions .................................................9

Student Practices

Poetry Analysis Questions ...................................................................13

Prose Analysis Questions .....................................................................25

Literary Argument Questions ..............................................................43

Synthesis Question ...............................................................................52

Synthesis Question Sample Score and Commentary ...........................64

Synthesis Question Student Sample 1..................................................66



Rhetorical Analysis Questions .............................................................78

Argument Questions ............................................................................99

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Poetry Analysis

Suggested time – 40 minutes.

In the following poem by Marge Piercy, the speaker reflects on society’s expectations of women

and their bodies. Read the poem carefully. Then, in a well-written essay, analyze how Piercy

uses poetic elements and techniques to convey the effects of stereotyping women by their

appearance.

In your response you should do the following:

• Respond to the prompt with a thesis that presents an interpretation and may establish a

line of reasoning.

• Select and use evidence to develop and support your line of reasoning.

• Explain the relationship between the evidence and your thesis.

• Use appropriate grammar and punctuation in communicating your argument.

BARBIE DOLL (1971)

This girlchild was born as usual

and presented dolls that did pee-pee

and miniature GE stoves and irons

and wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy.

Then in the magic of puberty, a classmate said: 5

You have a great big nose and fat legs.

She was healthy, tested intelligent,

possessed strong arms and back,

abundant sexual drive and manual dexterity.

She went to and fro apologizing. 10

Everyone saw a fat nose on thick legs.

She was advised to play coy,

exhorted to come on hearty,

exercise, diet, smile and wheedle.

Her good nature wore out 15

like a fan belt.

So she cut off her nose and her legs

and offered them up.

In the casket displayed on satin she lay

with the undertaker's cosmetics painted on, 20

a turned-up putty nose,


Prose Fiction Analysis


In the following passage from The Scarlet Letter (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the narrator

introduces the reader to the Puritan community of the novel. Read the passage carefully. Then, in

a well-written essay, discuss how the author uses literary elements and techniques to convey his

attitude toward the Puritans and their community.


• Respond to the prompt with a thesis that presents an interpretation and may establish a

line of reasoning.

• Select and use evidence to develop and support your line of reasoning.

• Explain the relationship between the evidence and your thesis.

• Use appropriate grammar and punctuation in communicating your argument.

The grass-plot before the jail, in Prison Lane, on a certain summer morning, not less than two

centuries ago, was occupied by a pretty large number of the inhabitants of Boston, all with their

eyes intently fastened on the iron-clamped oaken door. Amongst any other population, or at a

later period in the history of New England, the grim rigidity that petrified the bearded

physiognomies of these good people would have augured some awful business in hand. It could 5

have betokened nothing short of the anticipated execution of some noted culprit, on whom the

sentence of a legal tribunal had but confirmed the verdict of public sentiment. But, in that early

severity of the Puritan character, an inference of this kind could not so indubitably be drawn. It

might be that a sluggish bond-servant, or an undutiful child, whom his parents had given over to

the civil authority, was to be corrected at the whipping-post. It might be, that an Antinomian, a 10

Quaker, or other heterodox religionist was to be scourged out of the town, or an idle and vagrant

Indian, whom the white man’s fire-water had made riotous about the streets, was to be driven

with stripes into the shadow of the forest. It might be, too, that a witch, like old Mistress

Hibbins, the bitter-tempered widow of the magistrate, was to die upon the gallows. In either

case, there was very much the same solemnity of demeanor on the part of the spectators; as 15

befitted a people amongst whom religion and law were almost identical, and in whose character

both were so thoroughly interfused, that the mildest and the severest acts of public discipline

were alike made venerable and awful. Meagre, indeed, and cold was the sympathy that a

transgressor might look for from such by-standers, at the scaffold. On the other hand, a penalty,

which, in our days, would infer a degree of mocking infamy and ridicule, might then be invested 20

with almost as stern a dignity as the punishment of death itself.

It was a circumstance to be noted, on the summer morning when our story begins its

course, that the women, of whom there were several in the crowd, appeared to take a particular

interest in whatever penal infliction might be expected to ensue. The age had not so much


Rhetorical Analysis


Zora Neale Hurston, American anthropologist and prominent writer of the Harlem Renaissance,

wrote the following essay, “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” to illustrate her situation as an

African-American woman in the United States in the early twentieth century. The essay was first

published in World Tomorrow in 1928.

Read the passage carefully. Then write an essay that analyzes the rhetorical choices Hurston

makes to convey “how it feels” to be a woman such as she.


• Respond to the prompt with a thesis that may establish a line of reasoning.

• Select and use evidence to develop and support the line of reasoning.

• Explain the relationship between the evidence and the thesis.

• Demonstrate an understanding of the rhetorical situation.

• Use appropriate grammar and punctuation in communicating the argument.

I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am

the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother’s side was not an Indian

chief.

I remember the very day that I became colored. Up to my thirteenth year I lived in the

little Negro town of Eatonville, Florida. It is exclusively a colored town. The only white people I 5

knew passed through the town going to or coming from Orlando. The native whites rode dusty

horses, the Northern tourists chugged down the sandy village road in automobiles. The town

knew the Southerners and never stopped cane chewing when they passed. But the Northerners

were something else again. They were peered at cautiously from behind curtains by the timid.

The more venturesome would come out on the porch to watch them go past and got just as 10

much pleasure out of the tourists as the tourists got out of the village.

The front porch might seem a daring place for the rest of the town, but it was a gallery

seat for me. My favorite place was atop the gatepost. Proscenium box for a born first-nighter.

Not only did I enjoy the show, but I didn’t mind the actors knowing that I liked it. I usually

spoke to them in passing. I’d wave at them and when they returned my salute, I would say 15

something like this: “Howdy-do-well-I-thank-you-where-you-goin’?” Usually automobile or the

horse paused at this, and after a queer exchange of compliments, I would probably “go a piece of

the way” with them, as we say in farthest Florida. If one of my family happened to come to the

front in time to see me, of course negotiations would be rudely broken off. But even so, it is clear

that I was the first “welcome-to-our-state” Floridian, and I hope the Miami Chamber of 20

Commerce will please take notice.


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