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Strategy
Rhetorical Questions
Language Devices
100

Word Choice

What is Diction?

100

The time you have to complete the multiple choice section on the AP Language exam

What is 60 minutes?

100

This mnemonic represents the required pieces of the rhetorical analysis' introduction (but not the thesis statement)

What is SOAPStone?

100
Appeals to Logic and Reason
What is Logos?
100
Repeated structural elements in a sentence

What is parallelism?

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 45?

200

Highly suggested to use two sources per paragraph for this essay

What is the synthesis essay?

200
Appeals to Emotion
What is Pathos?
200

Using words with the same first letter repeatedly close together in a phrase or sentence.

What is alliteration?

300

The logical connection of evidence in an argumentation essay.

What is the line of reasoning?

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

This mnemonic is used to help generate evidence for the argumentation essay. 

What is CHORES?

300
Appeals to what is right or moral
What is Ethos?
300

The way sentences are grammatically constructed.

What is syntax?

400

Intentionally placing two opposite things side by side to create an effect 

What is juxtaposition? 

400

45 percent of the exam score comes from here

What is Multiple Choice? 

400

What the C in CHORES stands for

What is Current Events?

400

The need that provokes a person to write an argumentative piece

What is exigence?

400

A kind of parallel syntax, dividing an idea into three harmonious parts, usually of increasing power.  

What is tricolon?

500

Syntax that purposely removes conjunctions between words

What is asyndeton?

500

The percentage of MCQs one needs to get correct for a 5 on that section. 

What is 75 percent?
500

The essay you should write about first

What is whichever one is the easiest for you to answer?

500

The identifier of the three appeals in argumentation

Who is Aristotle?

500

Deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence

What is anaphora?