AP Lang studu guide Fall 2025

Ethos

Appeal to trust and common ground

Pathos

An appeal to emotion

Logos

An appeal to logic

A story about a defendants abusive childhood would be an appeal to?

Logos

A personal anecdote that shows a speakers personal expirence with a topic would be an appeal to?

Ethos

Pictures from a bloody crime scene would be an appeal to?

Pathos

Statistics and date from peer reviewed studies would be an appeal to?

Logos

Antithesis

An opposition or contrast of ideas

Discursive

Jumping from subject to subject

Connotation

The implied meaning of a word

Denotation

The dictionary definition of a word

Understatement

The presentation of something being less important than it really is

Conjunction

A word that connects other words, phrases, clauses, or sentences

Hyperbole

An overstatement or exaggeration

Polysyndeton

The abundance of conjunctions to create an effect

Asyndeton

The absence of conjunctions to create an effect

Tricolon

A parallel structure that presents 3 words, clauses, or sentences, usually to emphasize the third

Diction

Words selected to build a certain tone

Tetracolon

A list of four words, clauses, or sentences

Passive voice

The absence of a subject in a sentence, usually to achieve purposeful vagueness

Repetition

The repeating of a word or idea to build a purposeful effect

Allusion

Referring to something else, such as myth, religion, history to achieve a certain effect

Which reveals the tone of a passage?

How does the author want the audience to feel

Imagery

The use of one of the 5 senses to give the reader the experience of a topic

"But, from here on in to victory, glamour is out and toughness is in. From here on in to victory, girls, the way is going to be hard. From here on in, women and men and children, too, for that matter, are going to have to take on the serious task of winning this war."

Repetition and Antithesis

"The heartbreaking photo of the drowned Syrian child seems to be radically awakening the world - preventing anyone from being able to ignore the current humanitarian crisis facing nearly one million Syrians."

Imagery

"These fiercely courageous human beings are crawling and running and starving and drowning."

Tetracolon

"But these were eddies of respectful quietude in a flow of celebration: parades and confetti and flags and bunting and a sense that we had done something honorable... "

Polysyndeton

"... even when their heat and speed broke our skin, shattered our bones, skulls, pierced our hearts, we kept on, even when we saw the bullets send our bodies flailing through the air like flags, like the many flags and building that went up in place of everything we knew this land to be before."

Asyndeton

"Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is."

Antithesis

"Herodotus, in the Persian War, tells a story of how Croesus, the richest and most-favored kind of this time, asked Solon the Athenian a leading question."

Allusion

"The land is everywhere or nowhere."

Anthithesis

There There is set in

21st century Oakland

The cultural significance of a powwow is best described as

A celebration of the lived experiences of Native people, often involving singing, dancing, honoring ceremonies, giveaways, prayers and feasting.

Opal Viola and Jacquie's mom says that a spider's web is

Both a home and a trap, containing miles and miles of web and stories.

True or false: Blue receives a warm greeting of recognition when she sees her birth mom at the powwow.

False

What image was used to test the broadcast of American televisions in the 1970s?

An Indian head on a spike

The film that Dene is working on is best described as:

A documentary that centers Native peoples' stories from the perspective of Native peoples themselves

With whom does Blue go on an awkward date and doesn't imagine it going any further than being co-workers?

Edwin Black

The story Edwin is working on that he shares with Blue in Part IV is best described as

A metaphor for White settlers taking land from Native people.

Orvil knows Opal is proud of him for dancing in the powwow.

False

How does Daniel attempt to save Octavio when the shooting starts?

He flies his drone into Carlos' head.

Who does Bill immediately think of when the shooting starts?

Edwin

True or false: Blue confronts Jacquie and Opal about her parentage in the hospital.

False

This character is excited and relieved to be met with a warm, welcoming hug when meeting their father at the powwow.

Edwin

This character serves as the Oakland powwow emcee, or announcer.

Harvey

This character is overcome by a sense of dread and drops a bullet in the restroom of the Coliseum.

Octavio

This character sacrifices himself, charging through gunfire, to land on and stop one of the gunmen.

Tony

Mrs. Wanket:

Proper

Faeries

Plural

Success

Abstract

Audience

Collective

Team

Collective

Trinh gave HERSELF a chance

Reflexive

The choice is YOURS

Possessive

Who said that terrible word?

Interrogative

EVERYBODY dance now

Indefinite

Sarah is the student WHO wrote the beautiful line

Sarah

Because the trees grow so quickly, THEY are useful to humans

Trees

Be good or Krampus will be the ONE to greet you on Christmas.

Krampus