The Right Term
The term for word choice in a piece of writing.
What is Diction?
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 this part of your essay. (Hint: Think of what part of the essay is worth more points.)
What is the evidence and commentary?
These are appeals to logic and reason.
What is logos?
This is a term that describes the type of writing of a rhetorical text, or any text for that matter, such as a speech, social media post, or newpaper editorial.
What is the genre?
This is deliberate exaggeration used to create humor or emphasis.
What is Hyperbole?
The number of questions you can expect on the multiple choice section of the AP Language exam.
What is 45?
Though traditionally in high school you have written five paragraphs for your essays, you must have a minimum of this many body paragraphs.
What is two paragraphs?
These are appeals to emotion.
What is pathos?
This is the individual that is sharing their perspective in the text that you are reading.
What is the speaker?
The is a rhetorical technique involved repeating sequence structure in different parts of the text.
What is parallelism?
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 essay, you must answer the prompt and discuss this among three or more sources from what is provided.
What is the relationship, differences, commonalities, connections, etc.?
This is a specific technique or tool used in writing or speech to persuade an audience, like metaphors, repetition, or rhetorical questions, as opposed appeals like logos, ethos, or pathos.
What is a rhetorical device?
These are the intended recipients of the speaker's message.
What is the audience?
This is an implied or indirect reference to a person, event, or thing or to a part of another text, like the Bible or Shakespeare.
What is an allusion?
Forty-five percent of your exam score comes from this part of the exam.
What is the multiple choice?
The RECOMMENDED amount of time you should spend reading the synthesis essay sources.
What is 15 minutes?
This is the essay in which can you use first person. (Ex: I, we, us, our, etc.)
What is argument essay/argumentative free response?
This is the speakers goal in communicating their message. (Hint: To inform, to persuade, etc.)
What is the purpose?
This is the arrangement or order of words and phrases within a sentence.
What is syntax?
Though having a thorough introductory paragraph is helpful, it is most important to have this in your introduction.
What is a thesis?
In a rhetorical analysis essay, this is how many rhetorical choices, devices, or strategies you should list in your thesis.
What is three?
This is what the C in the CHORES method stands for.
What is current events?
This is the surrounding circumstances, including time, location, culture, and other relevant factors of the rhetorical situation.
What is the context?
This part of your essays for your free response questions should be defensible and supported by a clear line of reasoning.
What is the thesis statement?
How much time should you spend writing the essay for the synthesis free response?
What is 40 minutes?
The reading section of the multiple choice questions may ask you to INFER certain parts of the text. This is what inference means.
What is a conclusion reached by reasoning, using evidence and background knowledge to understand something not directly stated?
This is the part of the free response questions in which you should utilize the CHORES method to provide your evidence.
What is the argument essay/argumentative free response question?
This is the reason that the speaker or writer presented their response, the situation or event that lead to it.
What is exigence?