The Right Term
Word Choice
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 of your essay(s) score depends on ..
*think of the rubrics
Evidence and commentary!
This persuasive technique appeals to the audience’s emotions in order to create sympathy, urgency, or outrage.
What is pathos?
The day and date of the AP Exam.
What is Wednesday, May 13, 2026?
The term for a comparison using “like” or “as”?
What is Simile?
The number of questions you can expect on the multiple choice section of the AP Language exam
What is 45?
Have a minimum of ________ body paragraphs.
Two
A writer says:
“As a public school teacher for 25 years, I have watched students thrive when they feel seen and supported.”
What persuasive appeal is the writer primarily using?
What is ethos?
T/F: The AP Lang. exam will have writing questions that ask students to “read like a writer” and consider revisions to stimulus texts.
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The term for a contradiction between what is expected and what actually occurs.
Irony
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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?
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On the synthesis exam, you must answer the prompt and discuss the __________ among three or more sources.
Relationship, Differences, Commonalities, etc.
*Answers will vary
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The difference between rhetorical devices and rhetorical appeals.
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)
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The percentage of the AP English Language exam score that comes from the free-response section.
What is 55%
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The term for a sentence structure in which parallel ideas are expressed in grammatically similar forms.
What is parallelism?
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45% of Exam Score comes from Multiple Choice or Essay?
What is Multiple Choice?
The RECOMMENDED amount of time you should spend reading & writing the synthesis essay.
55 minutes
The essay you can use First Person.
Ex: I, we, us, our, etc.
What is Argumentative Free Response?
Scores (1, 2, 3, 4) that prestigious colleges possibly accept as college credit.
What is 4s?
The arrangement of words and phrases in a specific order
Syntax
Writing an introduction paragraph is great; however, ensure you have a solid _____________________ in your first paragraph.
What is a thesis?
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In a rhetorical analysis essay, how many rhetorical choices should you list in your thesis?
Three!
Comparison, Paradox, Allusion, Metaphor, etc.
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What SPACECAT stand for and what it's for.
1. What is Speaker, Purpose, Audience, Context, Exigience, Choices, Appeals, Tone.
2. What is the Rhetorical Situation?
The ENTIRE AP English Language and Composition exam is __________________ (how long?).
*must say the exact answer
3 hours and 15 minutes
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The last sentence in an Introduction Paragraph
Thesis Statement
The time should you spend writing the essay for the Synthesis FRQ.
What is 40 Minutes?
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
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The difference between the rhetorical analysis essay and the argumentative free response essay.
What is the rhetorical analysis essay focuses on how an author builds an argument, while the argument essay asks students to develop their own argument?
T/F: AP English Language and Composition (AP Lang) is a college-level course and exam focusing on the close reading and analysis of imaginative literature (fiction, poetry, drama) from various periods, aiming to deepen understanding of how writers use language
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