Finding the Right Words
Let's use straightforward language: word choice.
What is Diction?
The time you have to complete the multiple choice section on the AP Language exam (also the title of a CBS recurring interview program)
What is 60 minutes?
The BULK score of your essay(s) score depends on ..
*think of the rubrics
Evidence and commentary!
Appeals to Logic and Reason
What is Logos?
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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This memoir details some traumatic events from hot dog water to assault to grief.
What is The Glass Castle?
If what I said were true over the years, I would have died of laughter a million times by now. Glad instead I have this rhetorical device to help me exaggerate how I feel.
What is Hyperbole?
The number of questions you can expect on the multiple choice section of the AP Language exam. (The answer to life plus 3.)
What is 45?
Have a minimum of ________ body paragraphs.
Two
What percentage of the AP English Language exam score comes from the multiple-choice section?
45%
According to Virginia Woolf, a woman needs this to be a writer.
Money OR a room of one's own.
It is important that you understand this technique. It is important that you remember its name. It is important that you know it's not just repetition.
Anaphora
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?
On the synthesis exam, you must answer the prompt and discuss the __________ among three or more sources.
Relationship, Differences, Commonalities, etc.
*Answers will vary
+1000
What essay can you use First Person?
Ex: I, we, us, our, etc.
Synthesis AND Argumentative Free Response
The day and date of the AP Exam?
What is Wednesday, May 14, 2025?
According to The Atlantic Gen-Zers might have a difficult time reading The Declaration of Independence due to this.
You would have to be as blind as Sampson not to understand that this means making a reference.
Allusion
This accounts for 45% of your final exam score.
What is Multiple Choice?
What is the RECOMMENDED amount of time you should spend reading & writing the synthesis essay?
50 minutes
What does C.H.O.R.E.S. stand for? What essay will it help?
Current Events, History, Outside Info, Reading, Extracurricular, Science
Free Response/Argumentative
HELP points: +1000
This test is worth_____________ percent of your grade in this class...
What is 0%?
Burn baby burn! Well, not quite. Press baby press! This is the fate of this unlucky victim of the Salem Witch Trials.
Who is Giles Corey?
“When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good you will not.” Yoda has an interesting way of arranging his sentence structure, also called this.
Syntax
Writing an introduction paragraph is great; however, ensure you have a solid complex _____________________ in your first paragraph.
What is a thesis?
In a rhetorical analysis essay, how many rhetorical devices should you list in your thesis?
On that note, list three rhetorical DEVICES.
Three!
Oxymoron, Paradox, Allegory, Metaphor, etc.
+1000
Which of the following best describes the difference between the rhetorical analysis essay and the argumentative free response essay?
The rhetorical analysis essay focuses on how an author builds an argument, while the argument essay asks students to develop their own argument
The ENTIRE AP English Language and Composition exam is __________________.
*must say the exact answer
3 hours and 15 minutes
This poet laureate in her graduation speech has a series of contrary wishes for the graduating class of the University of Virginia.
Who is Rita Dove?
Lions, and Tigers, and Bears! Oh my! You don't want to employ this distracting tactic in which you refute a different argument from the one you are discussing.
Straw Man (Fallacy)
What is a call to action?
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
+1000
What is 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)
+1000
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
F A L S E
Abigail in Arthur Miller's The Crucible says, "I saw how you sweated like a stallion." Maybe she's an equine appreciator, or more commonly this potentially insulting term.
What is a horse girl?