Rhetorical Devices
This is the repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses.
What is anaphora?
In a multiple-choice passage, this is the first step you should take.
What is read the passage carefully?
The number of essays on the exam.
What is three?
A strong argument includes this, which is your position on the issue.
What is a claim or thesis?
This acronym helps you remember key parts of the rhetorical situation.
What is SOAPStone?
A brief reference to a well-known person, place, event, or work of art or literature.
What is an allusion?
These types of questions ask what the author is doing, not just what the passage says.
What are rhetorical strategy questions?
This essay asks you to analyze how an author constructs an argument.
What is the rhetorical analysis essay?
Effective arguments often include this acknowledgment of opposing views.
What is a counterargument?
This term refers to the writer’s reason for writing.
What is purpose?
Using a part of something to represent the whole.
What is synecdoche?
Answer choices that seem right because they relate to the topic but doesn’t answer the question are meant to do this.
What is distract?
This essay type requires you to form your own argument using logic and evidence.
What is the argument essay?
A short story or example used to illustrate a point.
What is an anecdote?
When writing the analysis essay, avoid summarizing and instead focus on this.
What is analyzing rhetorical choices?
A question posed for effect, not meant to be answered.
What is a rhetorical question?
The tone of a passage can best be identified by analyzing these elements.
What are diction and syntax?
This essay requires you to incorporate at least 3 out of 6 provided sources.
What is the synthesis essay?
An appeal to logic using facts and reasoning.
What is logos?
This refers to the specific techniques an author uses to persuade.
What are rhetorical choices?
The use of contrasting ideas in parallel structure.
What is antithesis?
The MC section is worth this percentage of the AP Lang exam score.
What is 45%?
Each essay is scored on a scale from 0 to __.
What is 6?
These three modes of persuasion were identified by Aristotle.
What are ethos, pathos, and logos?
A line-by-line or paragraph-by-paragraph analysis of how the author builds their argument will result in the discovery of the author's this.
What is a line of reasoning?