AP Exam
Weds. May 13th at 8:00 AM
Honesty is the best policy. Don't judge a book by its cover.
aphorism
How many paragraphs can you write for a rhetorical Essay?
4
In AP writing, one should avoid cliches like the plague.
simile
"If the school allows girls to wear short skirts, then soon they will want to wear bikinis to class" is what logical fallacy?
Slippery slope
How many minutes do you have to answer the multiple choice section?
60 minutes or one hour
Her lips were a straight line of determination.
What two essays need a counterargument paragraph?
the argument and the synthesis
Thanks, Sherlock!
allusion, exclamation
The room was big, vast, huge, and expansive.
restatement
What are the three essays on the exam?
the rhetorical Essay, the argument, and the synthesis
The suits from the executive office will be in meetings all day today.
metonymy
How many pieces of textual evidence should be written into each body paragraph?
at least 2
"symbolizing an end as well as a beginning, signifying renewal as well as change" has what 2 elements?
parallelism and antithesis
"...it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness..." has what 3 elements?
anaphora, antithesis, and parallelism,
How many minutes do you have to write each essay?
40
"When we allow freedom to ring--when we let it ring from every city and every Hamlet, from every state and every city," has what 3 elements?
anaphora, restatement, personification, and repetition
How do you cite the sources on the AP exam?
(Source A)
Nobody goes to that restaurant because it is too crowded.
paradox
It's not rocket science!
litotes
How many multiple choice questions are there on the exam?
44
"Hester gazed after him a little while, looking with a half-fantastic curiosity to see whether the tender grass of early spring would not be blighted beneath him..." has what 3 elements?
What verb tense MUST be used when writing about literature?
present
a coming-of-age novel like A Separate Peace
Bildungsroman
You are free to execute your laws and your citizens as you see fit.
zeugma