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📚AP English Literature
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📚AP English Literature

FRQ 3 – Literary Argument
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Unit 1: Intro to Short Fiction
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Practice FRQ 1 of 201/20

3. In many works of literature, a character must navigate competing demands or loyalties. These conflicting obligations may involve family versus society, duty versus desire, or loyalty to the past versus the needs of the present.

Either from your own reading or from the list below, choose a work of fiction in which a character faces competing demands or loyalties. Then, in a well-written essay, analyze how the character’s response to these conflicting obligations contributes to an interpretation of the work as a whole. Do not merely summarize the plot.

In your response you should do the following:

  • Respond to the prompt with a thesis that presents a defensible interpretation.

  • Provide 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.

A Doll's House

All the Light We Cannot See

Antigone

Atonement

Beloved

Brave New World

Catch-22

The Color Purple

Crime and Punishment

Death of a Salesman

Exit West

Fences

Frankenstein

The God of Small Things

Great Expectations

The Great Gatsby

Hamlet

The Handmaid's Tale

Homegoing

The House of Mirth

Invisible Man

Jane Eyre

The Joy Luck Club

The Kite Runner

Little Fires Everywhere

Macbeth

Never Let Me Go

Othello

Pachinko

Persuasion

Pride and Prejudice

A Raisin in the Sun

The Remains of the Day

Sula

A Tale of Two Cities

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Things Fall Apart

Wuthering Heights

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