AP Lang First Four Week Quiz

Appositive

Noun or Pronoun phrase that renames or explain another noun or pronoun right beside

Where do you put appositive

before a noun, and use a comma to separate them

Simple Sentence

One Independent Clauses

Compound Sentence

Two or more Independent Clauses

Complex Sentences

One Independent Clauses and one or more Dependent Clauses

Compound-Complex Sentences

Two or more Independent Clauses and One or more Dependent Clauses

Pattern 1

Compound Sentence with semi-colon & No conjunction
- two short, related independent clauses now joined

Pattern 1A

Compound Sentence with Conjunctive Adverb (connector)

Pattern 1B

Compound Sentence with coordinating conjunction

Subject Complement

predicate adjective and predicate nominative

Direct Subjects

Receives the action of the verb (follows the verb)

Four General Characteristics of Persuasion

Focused, Developed, Articulated as a proposition, Explicated

Scope

How broad is the topic

Rhetorician’s Goal

To sharpen the focus of the rhetorical enterprise

Types of Thesis

Declarative, Preview, Arguable, Foreshadowing

Distillation

Extraction the most important part of the argument

Syllogisms of Logic

either deductive and inductive

Deductive

Purpose comes from other researchers, not from observation

Inductive

Start with details, and lead to purpose

Can I define X

What are its general and specific characteristics

Can I compare X & Y

How and to what degree are they alike or different

What is the relationship between X & Y

Cause and Effect, or antecedent and consequence, or contraries or contradictions

What are the circumstances of X

Impossible, possible, improbable, probable, certain?

Is there any testimony to support argument about X

An authority, a testimonial, a statistic, a maxim, a law and/or a precedent example

Definition Purpose

Finding a clear definition about your writing

Relationship Purpose

Explain the origin and consquence

Circumstances Purpose

To think about reality

Testimony Purpose

What experts say about this topic

Division

what are its parts/pieces

Division Purpose

Organize the topic in section