2008 AP® ENGLISH LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION FREE-RESPONSE QUESTIONS ENGLISH LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION SECTION II Total time—2 hours Question 1 In the two poems below‚ Keats and Longfellow reflect on similar concerns. Read the poems carefully. Then write an essay in which you compare and contrast the two poems‚ analyzing the poetic techniques each writer uses to explore his particular situation. When I Have Fears When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean’d my
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The way in which the Garden of Adonis replenishes life on Earth also demonstrates The Faerie Queen’s prioritization of earthly virtue. Although the Garden is largely a haven for Venus and her lover Adonis‚ it nonetheless exists in tandem with Earth‚ as many of its functions restore and purify earthly life. When describing the Garden’s unique life cycle‚ the narrator claims that the Garden “is the first seminarie / Of all things‚ that are borne to live and die” (III.vi.30.4-5). Here‚ the narrator
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where a young woman for whom he has vainly searched killed herself—it is the musty atmosphere of the room and the suggestion that every place bears the traces of the lives that have inhabited it that makes the story so compelling. It is a story of transience‚ of lives that move through a bleak‚ indifferent world‚ leaving only bits of themselves‚ which the young man uncovers as he searches through drawers and pokes into every corner and crevice of the room looking for something that remains of the woman
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The English Patient Commentary Page 136-137 This key passage is from Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient‚ found in the first few pages of chapter four. Before‚ this passage‚ Hana is sitting beside Almasy while he begins to describe his first expedition in the deserts in the 1930s. After‚ Almasy explained how he came to hate nations‚ but was attached to the desert as it could not be claimed or own. The passage between reinforces the idea that identity is not fixed‚ it changes over time as people
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Question: Show how the voices of writers through many centuries of literature have depicted a variety of mentalities and lifestyles. . Centuries could pass‚ and not many changes could be easily perceived by the common man‚ as those changes came gradually. Yet those changes can be readily discerned when looking at England as a whole‚ not looking at parts of history individually. The alterations of life‚ when looked at from a certain literary viewpoint‚ can be explained when one looks at the
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Shelley‚ explores the deeply ingrained yet paradoxical state of permanence and impermanent thought within and around humans as idealised in his poems “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” and “To a Skylark”. Both poems illustrate revelations of humanities transience in comparison to nature as well as the nexus of idealism and escapism‚ a thematic prose of the eccentric unworldliness of Romantic poets. Shelley’s 1816 poem “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” encapsulates the disposition of a transcendental entity
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Green Life Nursing Institute‚ Diploma in Nursing Science & Midwifery Session : 2010 --- 2011 Subject: English lll 3rd year Final Exam of 5th semester Full marks: 50 July 2013 Time: 2 hrs 1. Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions. 3×5= 15 Insomnia can be caused by medication‚ herbs or caffeine‚ stressful life events can also be a contributing factor
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Jamie brittain Psyc 100 Personal Application Essay- consciousness When I was five years old I was diagnosed with ADHD and put on medication. If it wasn’t for the Meds I most likely would not have learned in school. I can’t sit still or pay attention. I chose the topic number one‚ selectivity of consciousness‚ multitasking‚ and mind wandering. These are all very interesting things the mind is capable of doing. The reason I chose this was because ‘I’ve been dealing with this ADHD for quite
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The Human Condition Encompassing the commonalities between individuals while revealing both the ‘beautiful’ and the ‘terrible’ aspects of humanity‚ the Human Condition illuminates the ontological journey of the search for purpose and identity. However‚ comprehending the nature and scope of life in itself presents a challenge; outlining that understanding is crucial to the development of the self. Robert Frost explores all aspects of humanity‚ good and bad‚ by determining the effects of urbanisation
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terrain heroic‚ as it undoubtedly overshadows the “human drama” shown within the picture plane. Furthermore‚ the smoke that radiates from the “great dragon’s mouth”‚ the focal point of the painting‚ evokes in the viewer Streeton’s fascination with the transience of fire. This is characteristic of an Impressionist‚ as such a painter seeks to capture the shifting effects of light and colour with the greatest
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