2016 AP English Literature Exam
Question 3: intentional deception(s), motivation(s) for deception, contribution to work’s meaning
Texts Used in Student Responses (of 1196 scored)
selected from list of suggested titles
Hamlet
The Great Gatsby
Othello
The Kite Runner
The Crucible
Heart of Darkness
Crime and Punishment
A Doll House
Jane Eyre
Invisible Man
Pride and Prejudice
Beloved
Wuthering Heights
Catch-22
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Color Purple
Much Ado About Nothing
Twelfth Night
Atonement
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Anna Karenina
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
As You Like It
M. Butterfly
The Blind Assassin
The Bonesetter’s Daughter
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
In the Lake of the Woods
Jude the Obscure
Madame Bovary
Middlesex
Never Let Me Go
Oryx and Crake
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
The Burgess Boys
The Portrait of a Lady
The Women of Brewster Place
essays #
227
165
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24
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8
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selected from off the list of titles
Macbeth
1984
The Scarlet Letter
Frankenstein
Death of a Salesman
King Lear
The Importance of Being Earnest
East of Eden
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A Streetcar Named Desire
Lord of the Flies
Les Miserables
Animal Farm
The Catcher in the Rye
The Count of Monte Cristo
To Kill a Mockingbird
Remains of the Day
Great Expectations
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
All the King’s Men
Brave New World
The Handmaid’s Tale
Native Son
The Road
Song of Solomon
The Tempest
A Clockwork Orange
Things Fall Apart
The Things They Carried
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Waiting for Godot
Americanah
The Awakening
The Beach
Lolita
Paradise Lost
A Raisin in the Sun
A Tale of Two Cities
White Noise
essays #
30
24
20
17
15
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15
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11
8
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7
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