The time you have to complete the multiple choice section on the AP Language exam
What is 60 minutes?
100
the best strategy for beginning the multiple choice section of the AP Language exam
What is looking quickly over the different passages and deciding which one to read and answer first?
100
Appeals to Logic and Reason
What is Logos?
100
Where the Mossbachers live
What is Arroyo Blanco Estates?
200
Deliberate Exaggeration used to create humor or emphasis
What is Hyperbole?
200
The number of questions you can expect on the multiple choice section of the AP Language exam
What is 52-56?
200
POE, a recommended strategy for answering multiple choice questions on the AP Language exam
What is Process of Elimination?
200
Appeals to Emotion
What is Pathos?
200
Edgar Derby is shot for stealing this
What is a teapot?
300
a statement that seems to contradict itself but turns out to have a rational meaning
What is a Paradox?
300
The 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?
300
An absolute necessity on the multiple choice section of the AP Language exam; (hint: what some students do during the final two minutes of the multiple choice section?)
What is answer every single question, even if you need to guess?
300
Appeals to what is right or moral
What is Ethos?
300
Beryl Markham
What is the first female pilot in Africa?
400
the use of humor, irony, and/or exaggeration to expose and criticize ideas or groups
What is Satire?
400
the essay on the exam that most successful students spend the most time writing
What is the Type 2 / Single Text essay?
400
30-35 minutes
What is the amount of time you should spend writing the synthesis essay?
400
The difference between a claim and an argument
What is Evidence / Support?
400
What Nancy Mairs says she is
What is a Cripple?
500
the arrangement of words in a sentence
What is Syntax?
500
6-8
What is the number of sources you can expect to find on the AP Language synthesis essay?
500
The fundamental length requirement of every essay on the AP Language exam
What is two body paragraphs (plus a thesis)?
500
Understanding this is essential to understanding arguments; involves audience, time, place, etc.