AP® English Literature and Composition · The Exam: Section II, Free-Response and the Rubrics
Free-Response Question 1: Poetry Analysis
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- How it worksHow does Question 1 ask you to tie poetic elements to a complex relationship the prompt names?
- How it worksWalk me through the three minutes of annotation that make a poetry essay possible to draft.
- Worked exampleShow me a prompt about a speaker's view of aging turned into a thesis and three supporting claims.
- Common mistakeWhy isn't a poetry essay supposed to walk through the poem stanza by stanza?
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Question 1 supplies a poem of 309 words. Question 2 supplies a prose excerpt of 730 words. A student finds the poem harder to write about.
Why?End of topic.