Finding the Right Words
Let's use straightforward language: word choice.
What is Diction?
The time you have to complete the multiple choice section on the AP Language exam (also the title of a CBS recurring interview program)
What is 60 minutes?
The BULK score of your essay(s) score depends on ..
*think of the rubrics
Evidence and commentary!
Appeals to Logic and Reason
What is Logos?
The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of a sentence
This memoir details one woman's journey to break free from her family and seek a new life. Themes are family dynamics, abuse, education, and self-discovery. Give both title and author
What is Educated by Tara Westover
If what I said were true over the years, I would have died of laughter a million times by now. Glad instead I have this rhetorical device to help me exaggerate how I feel.
What is Hyperbole?
The number of questions you can expect on the multiple choice section of the AP Language exam. (The answer to life plus 3.)
What is 45?
Have a minimum of ________ body paragraphs.
Two
Appeals to Emotion
What is Pathos?
The repetition of a word or phrase at the start of successive clauses or sentences
Anaphora
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
It is important that you understand this technique. It is important that you remember its name. It is important that you know it's not just repetition.
Anaphora
The EXACT 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?
On the synthesis exam, you must answer the prompt and discuss the evidence from ________ or more sources
3 source minimum!
What essay can you use First Person?
Ex: I, we, us, our, etc.
Synthesis AND Argumentative Free Response
Synecdoche
This essay satirizes the disparity between standards of beauty for men and women
"The Ugly Truth about Beauty"
You would have to be as blind as Sampson not to understand that this means making a reference.
Allusion
This accounts for 45% of your final exam score.
What is Multiple Choice?
What is the RECOMMENDED amount of time you should spend reading & writing the synthesis essay?
50 minutes
What does $SEEITT stand for?
Economics, Safety, Environment, Ethics, International Impact, Technology, Time
A short statement of truth
Aphorism
The Lincoln Highway draws heavily on this rhetorical device. Once answered, provide an example from the text.
Allusion
Othello (Duchess' father)
Ulysses (Homer's epic)
“When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good you will not.” Yoda has an interesting way of arranging his sentence structure, also called this.
Syntax
Writing an introduction paragraph is great; however, ensure you have a solid complex _____________________ in your first paragraph.
What is a thesis?
In a rhetorical analysis essay, how many rhetorical devices or strategies should you list in your thesis?
3
Which of the following best describes the difference between the rhetorical analysis essay and the argumentative free response essay?
The rhetorical analysis essay focuses on how an author builds an argument, while the argument essay asks students to develop their own argument
The word that a pronoun refers to in a sentence
Antecedent
This writer asserts "that you have to keep the gators fed" in his essay on American preferences
Who is Stephen King
Lions, and Tigers, and Bears! Oh my! You don't want to employ this distracting tactic in which you refute a different argument from the one you are discussing.
Straw Man (Fallacy)
If a speech is given for the Rhetorical Analysis, it will likely contain this convention of speech writing, and will appear at the end of the speech.
What is a call to action?
The reading section of the MCQ may ask you to 'INFER' certain parts of the text. What does INFER/INFERENCE mean?
An inference is a conclusion reached by reasoning, using evidence and background knowledge to understand something not directly stated
EX: Someone slams the door = they are upset/angry
What is the difference between rhetorical devices and rhetorical appeals or strategies?
A "rhetorical device" is a specific technique or tool used in writing or speech to persuade an audience, like metaphors, repetition, or rhetorical questions, while "rhetorical appeals" are the broader categories of persuasion a speaker uses to influence the audience, such as appealing to logic (logos), emotions (pathos), or credibility (ethos)
The associative meaning of a word
connotation
This allusion indicates that a person in an authority position is removed from reality and not in touch with the common man
"Ivory Tower"