AP Spanish Comprensión de Textos Impresos 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: In a Spanish literary text, when an author uses 'la analepsis' (flashback), the narrative purpose is typically to:
- Describe future events before they happen in the main timeline
- Return to earlier events to provide background or context (Correct answer)
- Introduce a new character into the present action
- Summarize the main conflict at the story's climax
Correct answer: Return to earlier events to provide background or context
Analepsis (flashback) interrupts the chronological narrative to revisit past events that inform the present storyline.
Question 2: A Spanish text that uses the second person plural 'vosotros' is most likely written for an audience in:
- Mexico or most of Latin America
- Spain (Correct answer)
- The United States Hispanic community
- Argentina or Uruguay
Correct answer: Spain
The pronoun 'vosotros' and its verb forms are characteristic of Spain; Latin American Spanish uses 'ustedes' instead.
Question 3: When reading a persuasive essay in Spanish (ensayo argumentativo), identifying 'la tesis' helps the reader understand:
- The biographical background of the author
- The central claim or position the author intends to defend (Correct answer)
- The list of sources cited in the text
- The structural organization of each paragraph
Correct answer: The central claim or position the author intends to defend
The thesis states the author's main argument, which the rest of the essay supports with evidence and reasoning.
Question 4: In a Spanish poem, 'el encabalgamiento' (enjambment) occurs when:
- A line ends with a period, creating a full pause
- The syntactic unit continues past the end of a verse line without pause (Correct answer)
- Two rhyming words appear within the same line
- A stanza repeats at the end of the poem as a refrain
Correct answer: The syntactic unit continues past the end of a verse line without pause
Enjambment breaks a syntactic phrase across two lines, creating a tension between poetic rhythm and grammatical structure.
Question 5: An AP Spanish reading passage from a 'crónica' (chronicle) genre would most likely feature:
- Pure fictional narrative with invented characters
- A blend of journalistic reporting and literary style about real events (Correct answer)
- Instructions or steps for completing a task
- An argument defending a specific political position
Correct answer: A blend of journalistic reporting and literary style about real events
The crónica combines journalistic observation with literary techniques, reporting real events in a narrative, stylized form.
Question 6: When the vocabulary word 'aunque' appears in a Spanish text, it most commonly signals:
- A cause-and-effect relationship between two clauses
- A concession or contrast, introducing a subordinate clause (Correct answer)
- A sequence of events happening at the same time
- The conclusion or summary of the preceding argument
Correct answer: A concession or contrast, introducing a subordinate clause
'Aunque' means 'although' or 'even though,' introducing a clause that concedes a point while asserting the main idea.
Question 7: In AP Spanish reading comprehension, 'inferir el significado por contexto' means a student should:
- Look up unknown words in a bilingual dictionary
- Use surrounding words and passage context to deduce an unknown word's meaning (Correct answer)
- Skip unfamiliar vocabulary and focus only on known words
- Translate the entire passage into English before answering
Correct answer: Use surrounding words and passage context to deduce an unknown word's meaning
Contextual inference uses clues from the surrounding text—synonyms, examples, contrast—to determine the meaning of unfamiliar terms.
AP Spanish Comprensión de Textos Impresos 3
In a Spanish literary text, when an author uses 'la analepsis' (flashback), the narrative purpose is typically to: