eee 0 2014 AP* ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION FREE-RESPONSE QUESTIONS Adv D Ane Anca &*-TS Lemay zx Qoss04 by Question 2 (Suggested tnie—40 minutes. This question counts for one-third of the total essay section score) In the following letter, Abigail Ada s (1744-1818) writes to her son John Quincy Adams, who is traveling abroad \ith his father, John Adams, a United States diplomat and later the country’s second president. Read the letter carefully. Then, in a well-developed essay, analyze the rhetorical strategies Adams uses to advise her son. Support Your analysis with specific references tothe text 12 January, 1780. MY DEAR SON. hope you have had no occasign, either from ‘Wenemies or the dangers of the sedNo repent your Second voyage to FancecI Ted tought your rele bse from proper deliberation, or that you ‘Fee capable of jndghg What yas mont for yor oa Boneic snhd not havo ungh you to acocapany Your fhe and roter when os appeared oo evese® Boiho voyeee 2 ss You, However, readily submis to my advice, and, hope, vl acer age beiton yore er five me reson, (olen, Your knowledge of he Engi mre go groan You could possibly Kove feaped whit ignorant aie ou eres Foes yoo Wl fd yout tndersanding opening and dally improving. Some author, tat Thavegnet with, compares @ judicious qaveles 2 ved that increases its seam the further Ht flows from 18 source; orto certain” springs, which, running through rich veins of ¢ minerals, improve Te quay they po Tualities as they pass afong. Iwill fe expected of you my sop, that, as you ae favored with s ivantage® under the instructive Seo a lender naeneTGour provement should bear™- Some proportion ts your advantages Noving ‘Sang Hi yBu ht attention, diligence, and steady ‘application, Nature has not been deficient. 7.0 These are ines which a genius would wish wo te ts in hg lao Ete pos of a paciie tatioc that peat Saracers are formed Would Caerypave shone so distinguished an orator if he had ndT Bech roused, kindled, and inflamed by the tyramy of Catling, Vers. and Mark Anthony? The fabs ofa agora are formed in contending with difficutes- AIT history will convince you of ths, re that wisdom and penetation ae the fruit of. ow ot te lessons of retirement and leisure (Great necesies cll out rea vines, When a mind israised and animated by scenes that engage the heat, then those qualities, which would otherwise le dormant, wake into itfand form the character ofthe hero and the stajgsman, War, tyranny, and desolation are the scourges'of the Almighty and ought no doubt to be deprecated. Yet its your BX, my son. tobe an ‘eyewitness ofthese calamijes in your own native land, and, athe o owe your existence among a people who fave made a glorious defence of their invaded libertgs and who, aided by a generous and powerful ally. with the blessing of Heaven, will transmit this inheritance to ages Yet Unborn ‘Nor ought ito be one of the least of your incitementStowards exerting every power and faculty (of your mid, that you have a parent sho has taken so large and active a share inthis congest,and discharged the trust repose in him with so much'satsiation ss tobe Tanned Wit Teapot embassy which a present calls im abroad 9 The strict and inviolable rege you have ever paid to truth gives me plating loses hal you wil not swore from her dictates, but ad justige, forse, ‘and every manly virtue which can adofn'a good “T citizen, do honor to your country, and rensE¥our Pea Soprtily Toppy puTealy your evee eto — TO AA (© 2014 The Coleg Board, ‘ist the College Board onthe Web: woe collegeboard. or, a GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE.