AP English Literature FRQ Practice

📚AP English Literature

Practice FRQ 1 of 191/19

2. The following excerpt is from Virginia Woolf's narrative essay "The Death of the Moth," published posthumously in 1942. In this passage, the narrator observes the final moments of a moth as it struggles against death on a windowpane.

Read the passage carefully. Then, in a well-written essay, analyze how Woolf uses literary elements and techniques to convey the complexity of the narrator's response to the moth's death.

In your response you should do the following:

Respond to the prompt with a thesis that presents a defensible interpretation.
Select and use evidence to support your line of reasoning.
Explain how the evidence supports your line of reasoning.
Use appropriate grammar and punctuation in communicating your argument.

Par.

The moth having righted himself now lay most decently and uncomplainingly composed. O yes, he seemed to say, death is stronger than I am. The insignificant little creature now knew death. As I looked at the dead moth, this minute wayside triumph of so great a force over so mean an antagonist filled me with wonder. Just as life had been strange a few minutes before, so death was now as strange. The moth having righted himself now lay most decently and uncomplainingly composed. O yes, he seemed to say, death is stronger than I am.

📚AP English Literature

Practice FRQ 1 of 191/19

Read the passage carefully. Then, in a well-written essay, analyze how Woolf uses literary elements and techniques to convey the complexity of the narrator's response to the moth's death.

In your response you should do the following:

Respond to the prompt with a thesis that presents a defensible interpretation.
Select and use evidence to support your line of reasoning.
Explain how the evidence supports your line of reasoning.
Use appropriate grammar and punctuation in communicating your argument.

Par.