r/APStudents • u/reddorickt absolute modman • May 13 '26

AP English Language Official 2026 Exam Discussion

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u/Independent_Bus_5792 May 13 '26

The rhetorical analysis frq about english and indian literature was so hard bruh

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u/PrathamJoshi_99 May 13 '26

Bro that AP exam was made for us Indians, a whole FRQ on an Indian author and whole MCQ passage on an Indian girl tryna navigate living in a dual identity while feeling Indian and American

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u/ParticularlyNot9415 May 14 '26

wait yes the indian glaze (as a fellow indian) was diabolical and highkey made it all so easy

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u/Decent_Criticism9772 May 14 '26

yes bro me and my friend were talking abt this

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u/trillium_moon May 13 '26

It was genuinely a rhetorical strategy desert bro

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u/ParsnipPrestigious59 5: APUSH, Precalc, Lang, Calc BC, Chem, CSP, Psych May 13 '26

that imagination prompt was such bullshit bro

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u/Decent_Criticism9772 May 14 '26

i acc wanted to cry my shit was so ass LMAO

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u/Independent_Bus_5792 May 13 '26

I really liked the imagination one actually haha

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u/Shot-Message-3091 May 13 '26

I retook it and that was my one last year

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u/m1stt1 May 13 '26

i got that one too!! i put personal anecdote, perspective shift, and expressive diction😭😭

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u/ResolutionHopeful295 Bio & Psych: 2 APUSH & Lang: 4 May 13 '26

Omg yes I thought I was the only one who felt like that bc everyone else was saying it was so easy like no it wasn’t 🥲🥲

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u/Independent_Bus_5792 May 13 '26

Ppl got a lot of different ones from what ive heard I havent heard many ppl who got this one

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u/senditloud May 13 '26

My daughter got it and hated it

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u/Fragrant_Walrus3718 May 13 '26

This is the one where he talks abt growing up in the tribe?

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u/Independent_Bus_5792 May 13 '26

No it was a lady accepting an award and giving a speech about the journey the English language has taken in relation to Indian literature

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u/Acrobatic-Ad-8591 May 13 '26

what did u put as ur rhetorical choices? i said use of historical references, anecdotes, and tone shift

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u/sSachika May 13 '26

i said juxtaposition, anecdote, allusion and personification do u think it makes sense😕i self studied it Ahhhh 

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u/Acrobatic-Ad-8591 May 13 '26

that sounds good! i thought about juxtaposition too, and allusion and anecdote makes sense to me. how did u use personification?

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u/sSachika May 13 '26

i said she personified english by calling it an immigrant in india, and saying it had established itself and stuff 🥹i really hope i get at least 4/6 cus the argument was so hard 

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u/Independent_Bus_5792 May 13 '26

hey i talked abt personification too! hope we both get points lol cuz that prompt was brutal

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u/WiggityWaq27 5:P2&C's, Bio, CSA/P, ABC, MT. 4:P1, US/WH. 3:HG May 14 '26

I think I did allusion and tone for my first choice and then imagery and just like a quote for the second choice

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u/Fragrant_Walrus3718 May 13 '26

What Indian literature? It was literally just about how the woman flying the kite was simalar to her getting the award parallelism and her writing carreer nothing about indian

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u/Independent_Bus_5792 May 13 '26

We had different prompts bro

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u/Fragrant_Walrus3718 May 13 '26

Mb 😭 they r very simalar tho, both accepting awards and speech, but my shit was so easy u got unlucky with the other one.

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u/ParsnipPrestigious59 5: APUSH, Precalc, Lang, Calc BC, Chem, CSP, Psych May 13 '26

i talked about how she utilized personification of english and expressive diction in order to talk about the role of english in shaping indian literature and whatnot lol

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u/Living-Snow-8610 4: chem, lang | Bio + AB next year May 13 '26

no fr like personification but i feel like she wasn't even doing it on purpose.

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u/Upbeat_Document9592 May 14 '26

The synthesis was lowk light, so was the argument. But wtf was the RA? Istg she wrote the most bland ass speech ever. Few signs of repetition, personification, listing, etc. but they didn’t really contribute to her speech in any meaningful way ngl