2012年AP英语文学简答题真题+答案+PDF下载
Question 1
(Suggested time—40 minutes. This question counts as one-third of the total essay section score.)
In the following poem by Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), the speaker addresses the subject of desire. Read the poem carefully. Then write a well-developed essay in which you analyze how poetic devices help to convey the speaker’s complex attitude toward desire.
Thou Blind Man’s Mark
Thou blind man’s mark,1 thou fool’s self-chosen snare, Fond fancy’s scum, and dregs of scattered thought; Band of all evils, cradle of causeless care; Thou web of will, whose end is never wrought; Desire, desire! I have too dearly bought, With price of mangled mind, thy worthless ware; Too long, too long, asleep thou hast me brought, Who should my mind to higher things prepare. But yet in vain thou hast my ruin sought; In vain thou madest me to vain things aspire; In vain thou kindlest all thy smoky fire; For virtue hath this better lesson taught— Within myself to seek my only hire,2 Desiring naught but how to kill desire.
Question 2
(Suggested time—40 minutes. This question counts as one-third of the total essay section score.)
Carefully read the following excerpt from the novel Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena María Viramontes. Then write a well-organized essay in which you analyze the development of Estrella’s character. In your analysis, you may wish to consider such literary elements as selection of detail, figurative language, and tone.
Unfortunately, we have been denied permission to reproduce the excerpt from Under the Feet of Jesus
by Helena María Viramontes on this website.
The excerpt is taken from early in the novel, when Estrella finds Perfecto’s red tool chest and Perfecto names the various tools and explains their uses.
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