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Best the Test
Strategy
So Persuasive
Potpourri
100
Word Choice
What is Diction?
100
The time you have to complete the multiple choice section on the AP Language exam
What is 60 minutes?
100

the most important close-reading strategy to use while reading a passage in the multiple-choice section.

What is annotation?

100
Appeals to Logic and Reason
What is Logos?
100

This is the score that awards student college credit at most institutions

What is a 3?

200
Deliberate Exaggeration used to create humor or emphasis
What is Hyperbole?
200
The number of questions you can expect on the multiple choice section of the AP Language exam
What is 52-56?
200
POE, a recommended strategy for answering multiple choice questions on the AP Language exam
What is Process of Elimination?
200
Appeals to Emotion
What is Pathos?
200

This famed Stephen King and Fitzgerald actress will soon be returning to the silver screen.

Who is Shelley Duvall?

300
a statement that seems to contradict itself but turns out to have a rational meaning
What is a Paradox?
300

The amount of time you will have to read, plan, and write your three essays during the AP English Language and Composition exam.

What is 2 hours and 15 minutes?

300

An absolute necessity on the multiple choice section of the AP Language exam (hint: what some students do during the final 30 seconds of the multiple choice section).

What is answering every single question, even if you need to guess?

300

Appeals to one's character or credibility.

What is Ethos?

300

There are this many answer options for each multiple choice question

What is 5 options?

400
the use of humor, irony, and/or exaggeration to expose and criticize ideas or groups
What is Satire?
400

the essay on the exam that focuses on how an author creates a certain effect through non-fiction writing.

What is the rhetorical analysis essay?

400

45 minutes

What is the amount of time you should spend writing the synthesis essay?

400

Compare/Contrast and Narrative are two examples of the following.

What is a method of development?

400

True or false: there will be fiction pieces on the exam

False. 

500
the arrangement of words in a sentence
What is Syntax?
500

A score of 3 or higher.

What is considered a credit-bearing score at most universities?

500

What is one way to earn a 'sophistication point' in the Free-Response Question rubric, and to add to one's credibility when presenting an argument?

What is considering a counter-argument to the claim you are making.

500

Understanding this is essential to understanding arguments; involves audience, time, place, etc.

What is Context/rhetorical situation?

500

The fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.

What is juxtaposition?

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