AP English Literature and Composition Quiz
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Consider the following original excerpt: "The principal called me into his office and offered me a chair that was lower than his. I sat anyway. He talked about 'potential' the way people talk about weather—something you can't control but can blame. 'You're capable of more,' he said, and I nodded because nodding is a language I'm fluent in. On the wall behind him, a framed motto read: Excellence is expected. I stared at the underline like it was a threat." How does the narrator's perspective shape the reader's understanding of the meeting?
A. It presents the meeting as encouraging mentorship, emphasizing support.
B. It implies the author is confused about office furniture, making the chair detail irrelevant.
C. It uses a wary, power-aware narrator to portray "potential" talk as pressure and institutional control.
D. It proves the narrator is reliable because the narrator quotes the motto, so the reader should assume the principal is correct about the narrator's laziness.
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