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College Board, Advanced Placement, AP, AP Central, and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of College Board. Visit College Board on the web: [collegeboard.org](collegeboard.org).  \n[AP Central is the official online home for the AP Program: apcentral.collegeboard.org](AP Central is the official online home for the AP Program: apcentral.collegeboard.org).  \nENGLISH LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION  \nSECTION II  \nTotal time—2 hours  \n3 Questions  \nQuestion 1  \n(Suggested time—40 minutes. This question counts as one-third of the total essay section score.)  \nIn Alice Cary’s poem “Autumn,” published in 1874, the speaker contemplates the onset of autumn. Read the poem carefully. Then, in a well-written essay, analyze how Cary uses literary elements and techniques to convey the speaker’s complex response to the changing seasons.  \nIn your response you should do the following:  \n• Respond to the prompt with a thesis that presents a defensible interpretation.  \n• Select and use evidence to support your line of reasoning.  \n• Explain how the evidence supports your line of reasoning.  \n• Use appropriate grammar and punctuation in communicating your argument.  \nAutumn  \nShorter and shorter now the twilight clips  \nThe days, as though the sunset gates they crowd, And Summer from her golden collar slips  \nLine And strays through stubble-fields, and moans aloud,  \n5 Save when by fits the warmer air deceives,  \nAnd, stealing hopeful to some sheltered bower, 1  \nShe lies on pillows of the yellow leaves,  \nAnd tries the old tunes over for an hour.  \nThe wind, whose tender whisper in the May  \n10 Set all the young blooms listening through th’ grove,  \nSits rustling in the faded boughs to-day  \nAnd makes his cold and unsuccessful love.  \nThe rose has taken off her tire 2 of red   \nThe mullein-stalk 3 its yellow stars have lost,  \n15 And the proud meadow-pink 4 hangs down her head Against earth’s chilly bosom, witched with frost.  \nThe robin, that was busy all the June,  \nBefore the sun had kissed the topmost bough, Catching our hearts up in his golden tune,  \n20 Has given place to the brown cricket now.  \nThe very cock crows lonesomely at morn—  \nEach flag 5 and fern the shrinking stream divides—  \nUneasy cattle low, 6 and lambs forlorn  \nCreep to their strawy sheds with nettled sides.  \n© 2023 College Board.  \nVisit College Board on the web: [collegeboard.org](collegeboard.org).  \nGO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE.  \n25  \n1  \n2  \n3  \n4  \n5  \n6  \nShut up the door: who loves me must not look Upon the withered world, but haste to bring  \nHis lighted candle, and his story-book, And live with me the poetry of Spring.  \na spot in a garden shaded by a covering of vines or branches attire  \nstem of a woolly-leaved plant slender plant with pink flowers plant with long tapering leaves  \nmoo  \nBegin your response to this question at the top of a new page in the separate Free Response booklet and fill in the appropriate circle at the top of each page to indicate the question number.  \n© 2023 College Board.  \nVisit College Board on the web: [collegeboard.org](collegeboard.org).  \nGO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE.  \nQuestion 2  \n(Suggested time—40 minutes. 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