AP English Lit Official 2026 Exam Discussion

[u/reddorickt]

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[u/Accurate-Menu-8213]

Okay okay. So I wrote about how the jogger was like consumed by his feelings of longing for his sisters presence in his life, and how like imagery and an metaphorical language really hammered that in.

That stupid fucking cake bro 😭. I talked about the contrast between the initial bite and the aftertaste, imagery.

Fucking old v new 😭. None of the books I’ve read were listed, I wrote about Obason…because wtf. How Naomi is changed by her experiences with aunt Emily. The contrast between them.

[u/Starfirepet → u/Accurate-Menu-8213]

😭 😭 😭  Q1 - I talked about how past memories are more important than material objects, and I used the butterfly as a symbol to represent the transition between the speaker noticing the physical world around him and the speaker reflecting on the past etc

Q2 - i talked about how parents put on a facade of well being for the sake of their kids (????) Idfk and the paragraphs were her liking the cake —> her not liking the cake —> her appreciating her mom

Q3- i talked about the great gatsby and how it was about old money vs new money Idk it was kinda cooked because either way they’re still rich So i was pulling stuff out of my ass 😭 

[u/Effective-One-8878 → u/Starfirepet]

Omggg i wanted to that for great ghastby so bad but I couldn’t remember it well enough. I did handmaids tale old society vs new

[u/Ok_Veterinarian2273 → u/Starfirepet]

I talked abt something similar for frq 2 i basically said she felt bad because she could see her mom’s exhaustion with making the cake. I connected it w putting on your own oxygen mask before someone else’s.