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\nThese exam materials may not be posted on school or personal websites,norelectronically redistributed for any reason without the express permission ofthe College Board.  \nThese training materials may be used solely for noncommercial purposesby AP teachers and students for course exam preparation.Permissionfor any other use must be sought from the College Board.Teachers mayreproduce these training materials in whole or in part,in limited quantities,for noncommercial,face-to-face teaching purposes,as long as the copyrightnotices are kept intact.  \n# ENGLISH LITERATUREAND COMPOSITIONSECTIONII\n\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 Richard Blanco's poem“Shaving,\"published in 1998,the speaker writes about the act of shaving.Read the poemcarefully.Then,in a well-written essay,analyze how Blanco uses literary elements and techniques to develop thespeaker's complex associations with the ritual of shaving.  \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.  \nShaving  \nIam not shaving,I'm writing about it.And I conjure the most elaborate idea—how my beard is a creation of silent laborLine like ocean steam rising to form clouds,  \n5 or the bloom of spiderwebs each morning;  \nthe discrete mystery of how whiskers grow,  \nlike the drink roses take from the vase,  \nor the fall of fresh rain,becoming  \na river,and then rain again,so silently.  \n10 I think of all these slow and silent forces  \nand how quietly my father's life passed us by.  \nI think of those mornings,when I am shaving,and remember him in a masquerade of foam,then,as if it was his beard I took the blade to,  \n15 the memory of him in tiny snips of black whiskersswirling in the drain—dead pieces of the selffrom the face that never taught me how to shave.  \nBegin your response to this question at the top of a new page in the separate Free Response bookletand fill in the appropriate circle at the top of each page to indicate the question number.  \nHis legacy of whiskers that grow like black seedssown over my cheek and chin,my own flesh.  \n20 I am not shaving,but I will tell you about themornings  \nwith a full beard and the blade in my hand,when my eyes don't recognize themselvesin a mirror echoed with a hundred facesI have washed and shaved—it is in that split second,  \n25 when perhaps the roses drink and the clouds form,when perhaps the spider spins and rain transforms,that I most understand the invisibility of lifeand the intensity of vanishing,like steamat the slick edges of the mirror,without a trace.  \n“Shaving”from City of a Hundred Fires by Richard Blanco,◎1998.Allrights are controlled by the University of Pittsburgh Press,Pittsburgh,PA15260.Used by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press.  \nQuestion 1:Poetry Analysis  \nIn Richard Blanco's poem“Shaving,\"published in 1998,the speaker writes about the act of shaving.Read the poem carefully.Then,in a well-writtenessay,analyze how Blanco uses literary elements and techniques to develop the speaker's complex associations with the ritual of shaving.  \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.  \nAP English Literature and Composition 2022 Scoring Guidelines  \n\n| Reporting  \u003Cbr>Category   | Scoring Criteria   |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Row A  \u003Cbr>Thesis  \u003Cbr>(0-1 points)   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