Rhetorical Devices/Choices
This is considered the author's attitude toward his subject and is used to identify how an author feels about a subject.
What is TONE?
This is the number of MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS on the AP LANG exam.
What are 45 MCQs?
This is the number of ESSASY you have to write.
Define Rhetoric.
What is argument or the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing or language designed to be persuasive?
The AP English Language and Composition exam is given this day of the week and time.
What is Tuesday, May 14th, 2024?
Define CONNOTATION.
What is the interpretive level of a word based on its associated images rather than its literal meaning?
This is the amount of TIME you have to complete the MCQ section.
What is 1 hour/60 minutes?
This is the amount of TIME you have to complete the FRQ section.
What is 40 minutes per essay (plus 15 minutes of read time for sources)? What is 2 hours and 15 minutes?
You should report to the testing site by this time so you are able to begin the test at this time.
What is 7:30 and 8:00 AM?
What is a reference to another piece of literature or event, etc.? (mythological, historical, biblical, literary, cultural, etc.)
These are the two types of passages you might encounter in the MCQ section.
These are the 3 types of FRQ Essays you must write.
What are the SYNTHESIS, RHETORICAL ANALYSIS and ARGUMENT essay?
These are what Aristotle calls the "APPEALS" to an argument.
These items are 3 MUST BRING items on test day.
What are a picture ID, blue/black ink pen and a number 2 pencil with an eraser?
What is a comparison that EQUATES? (sometimes referred to as a conceit) + Example.
Name one piece of advice Ms. Huddy gave you about MCQs.
What is ... (don't leave any ?s blank, use process of elimination, annotate your passage, read the question ahead of time but don't spend longer than a minute, etc.)
This is the MINIMUM number of sources you need to use in your Synthesis FRQ Essay.
What is 3?
Name each element of the RHETORICAL SITUATION.
What is SPACE aka Speaker, Purpose, Audience, Context, Exigence, Context?
Name the 3 qualities you will be scored on using the RUBRIC in the FRQ section.
What are Thesis, Evidence and Commentary, Sophistication?
The author chooses this carefully to ensure the connotation of a term is what they mean and is persuasive.
What is diction?
Describe what goes into a RHETORICAL ANALYSIS FRQ introduction + thesis.
What are rhetorical situation + 3 rhetorical devices?
These are the two things what you are looking for while annotating your Rhetorical Analysis passage.
What is the Rhetorical Situation (SPACE) AND 3 Rhetorical Devices?
Name one example of a rhetorical choice from ANY OF THE READINGS that we completed.
What is ... (answers may vary)?
This is the score you will receive on this exam.
What is a 5?!