rhetorical analysis
S.P.A.M.? stands for what?
What is speaker, purpose, audience, and motivation?
What does synthesize mean?
What is to make something new out of existing "parts"
What is your objective in writing this argument?
What is to persuade the reader?
How many questions and how much time?
55 questions, 1 hour
Name three things you should bring with you on the day of the test.
What is a wrist watch, layers, pencils, blue or black ink pens.
In what order do you analyze the passage of the rhetorical analysis?
What is the beginning, middle, and end of the passage?
What does A.P. stand for when looking at the synthesis prompt?
What is answer the prompt! Don't forget to answer both parts of a prompt if necessary.
what is a reasonable time to spend brainstorming for this argument?
What is 5-10 minutes?
T/F You are penalized 1/4 point for each wrong answer.
FALSE! try to eliminate some obviously wrong answers and then guess!!!
What should you do if you have one minute left and you haven't finished all of the multiple choice?
What is fill in the same answer for all remaining answer choices. (Do NOT make a Christmas tree, make a line.)
What does the acronym H.A.T.S. stand for?
Historical background, aaawwuubbis, thesis, simile/metaphor
What score will you likely get if you only summarize the sources?
What is a 5?
Name three ways to get a high score on this essay
What is have an original, "road less travelled" answer to the prompt, use rhetorical methods, have a structure that allows for maximum persuasion, use action verbs, ...
Which fallacy "attacks the man" not his argument?
What is ad hominem?
What should you NOT do in the conclusion of any essay?
What is restate anything you've already said - boring!!!
Identify three things to do when writing the synthesis that will help to elevate your score.
What is argue with the sources (acknowledge, concede, refute), show the effects on a scale grander than one's self (family, community, city, state, etc.), elevate diction, use a source in an unintended way, sources argue with each other, personal anecdote...
Name what the letter stand for in the acronym H.E.L.P.S.
What is Historical, economy, literature, personal, and social
If an author has a polemical tone, what does that mean?
The speaker is strongly critical, controversial, or hostile.
You shouldn't wear a wedding ring, don't you know that used to symbolize ownership of women?
which fallacy?
the genetic fallacy
name the rhetorical methods in d.a.d.s.f.a.r.t.
diction, allusion, details, shift, figurative language, fallacies, appeals, repetition, tone.
What score will you receive if you only synthesize two of the sources?
What is a 4?
From an argument prompt: "Defend, challenge, or qualify the assertion that certainty is more powerful than doubt." Define the word "qualify" as it is used in this prompt.
What is to agree in part?
If a speaker has an obsequious tone, what does that mean?
What is overly obedient, fawning, submissive.
Name the three essays on the AP exam in the order in which they appear.
Synthesis, rhetorical analysis, argument