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What is Diction?
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The time you have to complete the multiple choice section on the AP Language exam
What is 60 minutes?
The BULK score (Row B) of your essay score measures what?
What are Evidence and Commentary
This term refers to an appeal to logic and reason.
What is Logos?
The day and date of the AP Exam?
What is Wednesday, May 13, 2026?
Deliberate exaggeration used to create humor or emphasis.
What is hyperbole?
The number of questions you can expect on the multiple choice section of the AP Language exam
What is 45?
This is the quality measured by Row C.
What is Sophistication?
This term refers to an appeal to emotion.
What is Pathos?
True or False: The AP Language exam will have writing questions that ask students to “read like a writer” and consider revisions to stimulus texts.
What is True?
Repetition of initial consonant sounds
What is alliteration?
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?
How many sources must you cite on the synthesis question?
What is three?
The most important aspect to address in the first paragraph of rhetorical analysis?
What is purpose?
What percentage of the AP English Language exam score comes from the multiple-choice section?
What is 45%?
An implied or indirect reference to a person, event, or thing or to a part of another text. Ex: Bible
What is an allusion?
Number of possible answers for each multiple choice question.
What is four?
What is the RECOMMENDED amount of time you should spend reading & writing the synthesis essay?
What is 55 minutes?
What essay or essays invite the use of first person evidence?
What are the argument and the synthesis?
While policies vary by school, what AP Lang score is generally considered competitive for top colleges? (1,2,3,4,5)
The arrangement of words and phrases in a specific order
What is syntax?
Writing an introduction paragraph is great; however, ensure you have a solid _____________________ in your first paragraph.
What is a thesis?
How many body paragraphs does an AP Lang essay REQUIRE?
What is there is no required number.
This term refers to the credibility of the reader.
What is ethos.
The ENTIRE testing time of the AP English Language and Composition exam.
What is 3 hours and 15 minutes?
Greek thinker who contributed much to our understanding of rhetoric.
Who is Aristotle?
Points deducted for each incorrect answer on the multiple choice section.
What is zero?
The platform you will sign in to in order to take the exam.
What is Bluebook?
Why is simply identifying a rhetorical device not enough to earn high points on the AP Lang exam?
What is "Because students must explain how the device develops the author’s message, purpose, or effect on the audience."
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What is true of all of the texts on all sections of the exam?
What is they are non-fiction.