AP Spanish Literature and Culture

This section includes 3 sets of questions based on authentic audio texts including:

• An excerpt from an interview with an author
• A recited poem that is not on the required reading list
• A presentation on a literary topic related to course content

You will have time to skim the questions for each set before listening to the audio.

The interview and presentation will be played once; the recited poem will be played twice.

This section includes 6 sets of 7–10 questions based on readings from a variety of genres, periods, and places in the Spanish-speaking world.

Readings include:

• Works from the required reading list
• Works outside the required reading list
• A passage of literary criticism regarding a work or author from the list

One set will contain 2 passages that are related by theme—one of those passages is taken from the required reading list and the other is from a non-required text.

The free-response sections includes two short-answer questions and two long-essay questions:

• 2 Short-Answer Questions: Suggested time: 15 minutes each (~30 minutes)
  • Text Explanation: You’ll read an excerpt from a text on the required reading list, identify the author and period of the text, and explain the development of a given theme found within the excerpt in relation to the whole work from which the excerpt is taken.
  • Text and Art Comparison: You’ll read an excerpt from a text on the required reading list and study an image of a work of art (e.g., a painting, photograph, sculpture, or drawing) related by theme to the text. You will compare how a particular theme is represented in both the text and the image, and then connect that theme to the genre, period, or movement of the text.
• 2 Essay Questions: Suggested time: 35 minutes each (~70 minutes)
  • Analysis of a Single Text: You’ll read an excerpt from a text on the required reading list and then analyze how the text represents the characteristics of a particular genre as well as a particular historical, cultural, or social context.
  • Text Comparison: You’ll read 2 excerpts related by theme—one from a text on the required list, the other from a text not on the list—and analyze the effect of literary devices that the authors use in the texts to develop a particular theme that is provided in the question prompt.