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2015 AP® English Literature and Composition Free-Response Questions

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It is a cruel world. Scholars create essays about a piece of work that describes what cruelty reveals about a character. A prompt from the 2015 AP® English Literature and Composition Free-Response Questions also contains two other essay questions. One analyzes an excerpt from The Beet Queen. The other question asks writers to look at poetic devices in a poem by Derek Walcott.

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CCSS: Adaptable
Instructional Ideas
  • Provide highlighters for marking key details in the text
Classroom Considerations
  • Does not provide the excerpt from The Beet Queen
  • Question three may require resources for reference
Pros
  • Includes a variety of text (poem, passage excerpt, and piece of work of choice)
  • Offers rubrics for grading to see how responses stack up
Cons
  • None
Common Core