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Vivid description that appeals to the physical senses

What is Imagery?

100

the 3 types of essays on the AP Lang exam

What is rhetorical analysis, synthesis, and argument?

100

the minimum number of body paragraphs

What is 2?

100

What are the 5 key elements of the rhetorical situation? 

What are the speaker, audience, message, context, and exigence? 

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This acronym will help you to brainstorm evidence for the Argument Essay. List out all parts of the acronym! 

What is CHELPSS? 

Current Events

History

Experience

Literature

Pop Culture 

Sports/Science

200

chiasmus and antithesis are types of this

What is parallelism?

200

the amount of time you have to read and respond to all 3 essays

What is 2 hours and 15 minutes?

200

Both the Synthesis Essay, Argument Essay, and Rhetorical Analysis require you use these two elements to defend your thesis. 

What are evidence and reasoning/commentary? 

200

the philosopher credited for defining the rhetorical appeals

Who is Aristotle?

200

"9 out of every 10 dentists recommend Colgate to their patients." 

Who is Ethos? 

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2 very different elements are placed side by side for comparison to highlight a contrast

What is juxtaposition?

300

The time you have to complete the multiple choice section on the AP Language exam

What is 60 minutes?

300

the 2 elements required in the thesis statement for the rhetorical analysis

What is the author's message and rhetorical devices?

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the author's attitude toward the subject

What is tone?

300

The combination of an author's structural and rhetorical choices in a text. This is unique to each and every author. 

What is style? 

400

the repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses/sentences

What is anaphora?

400
the number of questions on the multiple choice section

What is 45?

400

By discussing this, you can achieve a higher, more sophisticated score on the RA essay. 

What is the rhetorical situation? 

400
What do we call the various text structures that you can use to develop and add to your commentary? 

What are the Methods of Development? (Definition, Narration, Description, Cause and Effect, Compare and Contrast). 

400

What are the two rhetorical devices relied upon heavily by Tim O'Brien? It created a sense of heaviness and exhaustion while describing the soldiers in his story. 

What is polysyndeton and asyndeton? 

500

when the speaker establishes their own credibility or set of values to connect with the audience. 

What is an ethos?

500

The date of the AP Lang test this year

What is May 14th?

500

In order to make effective choices in your own writing, you must always consider this. 

What is the audience? 

500

This is the arrangement of your claims, evidence, and logical explanation within an essay. They will be looking for this within all the essays. 

What is a Line of Reasoning? 

500

Arthur Miller relies on the three types of ____________ to create suspense, tension, and themes throughout his play "The Crucible". 

What is irony? 

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