1987 AP Exam

1. C -Easy question.  
2. E -Question was misinterpreted.
3. C -Had to think, medium.      
4. E -Medium question.    
5. D -Easy question.        
6. D -Medium question.
7. D -thought question was difficult.
8. B -Made me think a little bit, had to narrow it down.
9. A -Hard question
10. E -Misunderstood question.
11. D -Easy question.
12. B -Had to narrow it down.
13. B -Easy question.
14. C -Easy question.
15. A -Easy question.
16. B - Found in the text, inferred.
17. C -Easy question, obviously religious.
18. A -I thought it connected to number 16 however it didn't
19. E -I chose too quickly on this question, didn't think it was description
20. B -Inferred from the text.
21. E -Easy question
22. C -Medium question.
23. C -Misunderstood the question.
24. D -Hard question.
25. C -Easy question
26. E -Easy question.
27. B -Hard question.
28. C -Simple question.
29. E -Got an easy question wrong
30. E - Hard question.
31. D -Medium question.
32. B -Medium question.
47. B -Easy question.
48. A -Medium question.
49. C -Easy question.
50. D -Simple question.
51. B -Easy question I got wrong, didn't play close enough attention.
52. B-Medium question.
53. E -medium question.
54. B -Medium question.
55. C -Hard question.
56. B -Medium question.
57. C -Easy question.
58. D -Easy question.
59. C -Hard question.
60. E -Didn't look back to the beginning, would have been an easy question.
61. A -I guessed and got this question right. I thought it was blank verse or free and I chose blank.

Notes:
-Over all I felt I did very well on this test because I understood the pieces of text very well.
-Individually on questions I was able to reason my way through when the questions were harder.
-I found that sometimes I need to analyze the questions more and take a few more seconds so I can get the problem correct.
-I think I need to focus on vocabulary, if it is positive or negative.
-The last text was the easiest for me and the second text felt like the hardest.

Essay #2
    In the novel The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck the author formulates a connection with his audience through social changes and political aspects, that alter views to side with the people of Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl. Traditionally within the areas of farmland, people are extremely hospitable, however when water is short and the government is taking away jobs, it is nearly impossible to survive. As Steinbeck tries to imply through his novel is that social equality and opportunity has to be modified for the Joad family and overall society. Over the course of the novel the author uses strong sensations of imagery and tone to depict his grand schemes of the well written novel.

    Imagery is a smart article of persuasion to be given to an audience of readers because it enhances the vision and knowledge of what is occurring. The main point of such imagery in the novel is to depict what the situations are like; searching for a job, getting paid pennies, and no place to actually call home. The idea of social outcasts in the Oklahoma Dust Bowl is not only to show how much these people were rejected, but to show how awful American citizens were treated. The movement for social change was needed and envisioned by the author through his imagery. The novel advocates for social justice for people to work for proper wages and life with a certain level of health. As history shows America did make a change in that we created minimum wages and tax rates for people to properly help the economy grow along with their own personal growth.

   The tone of the novel is key to explaining how each situation is occurring. For example the tine in Mama Joads voice tells a story of pain and loss that is far greater than anyone else in the novel. The tone of each stress or small relief shows the social infractions that occurred and the author called for change with his characters in that they never gave up. The whole time the family kept pushing through broken down cars, irregular patterns of sleep, and long pay less days of work to move to California where they thought life would be better. The ideas of emotion behind the tone is what sets this novel apart from other pieces of work, which shows that struggles are hard, but people must push through the if they want to succeed.

In part, the novel is a social experiment done by the author to put the audience inside of the story to understand what really did happen to people during this period of time. John Steinbeck in his novel The Grapes of Wrath depicts a story of a large family struggling to make ends meet and has to travel away from everything they know to survive. The author puts you right in the front seat to this tragedy through emotional states of stress and great imagery that call for social change throughout the story for the right to survive and thrive as Americans not just " Worthless Okies."

Essay #1

Leisure as definition means free time or relaxation. As the author George Eliot depicts in her text is that leisure ceases to exist anymore because there is no patients or freedom anymore. Humans are now more eager than they have ever been to be amused or transfixed into the latest idea that they don't slow down. The author simply states it isn't like it used to be with explanations of detail .
-Stylistic devices used.
      -metaphors
      -discriptive language, imagery
examples form the text of these devices and what they meant to the author.
Creating a strong thesis with evidence and support.
-depicting the exact time that is the present in the piece, earlier days not in actual present.
-time when electroniccs were less prevelent
-How old time was spent and how new time is spent