5 Steps to a 5 AP English Language 2019

34 ❯ STEP 2. Determine Your Test Readiness

Source G

Andres, Gary J., “The Kelo Backlash.” Washington Times, August 29, 2005.

CNN Pollserver, “Local governments should be able to seize homes and businesses.”

Quick Vote, June 23, 2005. Available at http://www.cnn.com/POLLSERVER/

results/18442.exclude.html.

The following are the results of two surveys/polls. The first appeared in a Washington Times

article, and the second was commissioned by CNN.

American Survey | July 14–17, 2005

An American Survey of 800 registered voters nationwide shows 68 percent favor-

ing legislative limits on the government’s ability to take private property away from

owners, with 62 percent of Democrats, 74 percent of independents and 70 percent of

Republicans supporting such limits.

Created: Thursday, June 23, 2005 at 11:48:12 EDT

Local governments should be able to seize homes and businesses:

For public use 33% 58481 votes

For private economic 1% 2445 votes

development

Never 66% 117061 votes

Tot a l : 177987 votes

This QuickVote is not scientific and reflects the opinions of only those Internet users

who have chosen to participate. The results cannot be assumed to represent the opinions

of Internet users in general, nor the public as a whole.

Question 2

(Suggested time—45 minutes. This question counts

as one-third of the total score for Section II.)

The following paragraphs are from the opening of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood. After carefully reading the
excerpt, compose a well-written essay that analyzes how Capote uses rhetorical strategies to convey his charac-
terization of Holcomb and its citizens.

The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a

lonesome area that other Kansans call “out there.” Some seventy miles east of the

Colorado border, the countryside, with its hard blue skies and desert-clear air, has an

atmosphere that is rather more Far Western than Middle West. The local accent is

barbed with a prairie twang, a ranch-hand nasalness, and the men, many of them, wear

narrow frontier trousers, Stetsons, and high-heeled boots with pointed toes. The land

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