Category: AP Literature
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“A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams- Plot Summary
“A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams is a play set in New Orleans that explores the relationships and struggles of four characters: Blanche DuBois, Stanley Kowalski, Stella Kowalski, and Harold “Mitch” Mitchell. Blanche DuBois is a former high society woman who arrives in New Orleans to visit her sister, Stella Kowalski. Blanche has lost…
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AP Literature Open-ended Prompts- Audience’s response
Question Unlike the novelist, the writer of a play does not use his own voice and only rarely uses a narrator’s voice to guide theaudience’s responses to character and action. Select a play you have read and write an essay in which you explain the techniquesthe playwright uses to guide his audience’s responses to the…
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AP Literature Open-ended Prompts-a work of literature written before 1900
Question Choose a work of literature written before 1900. Write an essay in which you present arguments for and against the worksrelevance for a person in 1974. Your own position should emerge in the course of your essay. You may refer to works of literaturewritten after 1900 for the purpose of contrast or comparison. The…
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AP Literature Open-ended Prompts-opening scene of a drama
QUESTION: In retrospect, the reader often discovers that the first chapter of a novel or the opening scene of a drama introduces someof the major themes of the work. Write an essay about the opening scene of a drama or the first chapter of a novel in which youexplain how it functions in this way.…
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AP Literature Open-ended Prompts- Title Significance
Question : The significance of a title such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is so easy to discover. However, in other works(for example, Measure for Measure) the full significance of the title becomes apparent to the reader only gradually. Choose twoworks and show how the significance of their respective titles is developed through the…