Ap Lang Semester Exam Notes

AP Lang Semester Exam 24.25

Part One: Monday December 16th

You will get a text you've not read before and write a rhetorical analysis in class.

Part Two: assigned exam period

This part of the exam will cover the other information. This part will be primarily multiple choice but will include some short answer questions.

SPACE CAT (8.26): multiple choice and identified within a text (September Board Notes)

Speaker

Audience

Context

Choices

Appeals

Tone

Rhetorically Accurate Verbs 9.9: (September Board Notes)

Use RAV in the RA response that you will write as a part of the exam.

Choices & Their Jobs 9.2:

Exigence

~ multiple choice: identifying both definitions, jobs, and examples

Allegory

Didactic

of understatement)

Alliteration

Dramatic Irony

Overstatement

Allusion

Elegiac

Paradox

Ambiguity

Epistrophe

Pedantic

Analogy

Euphemism

Personification

Anaphora

Euphony

Polysyndeton

Anecdote

Extended Metaphor

Question

Antithesis

Imagery

Repetition

Assonance

Juxtaposition

Rhetorical

Cacophony

Litotes (a kind

Simile

Chiasmus

Loaded Language

Situational Irony

Colloquial

Metaphor

Synecdoche

Consonance

Metonymy

Understatement

Verbal Irony

Rhetorical Situation/Rhetorical Triangle 9.2: multiple choice and identify within a text.

~ Know both the definition and identify how the RS has influenced a text. See September Board Notes for information (access through Housekeeping folder on Schoology).

Logical Fallacies 10.21: multiple choice, know both definitions and examples.

Ad Hominem

Either/Or

Appeals to False Authority

false Analogy

Bandwagon

Hasty Generalization

Red Herring

Slippery Slope

Straw Man

Begging the Question

Non sequitur

Active Voice/Passive Voice (Housekeeping): multiple choice and application in RA response ~ identify examples of active/passive voice and write in active voice in the RA response

RA Thesis Structure: write a RA thesis statement in your RA response that follows the structure taught in class. There are examples of the correct structure in September Board Notes (access through Housekeeping folder on Schoology).

RA Body Paragraph Structure: demonstrate in RA Response for exam

~ 100k back to slide 41 in October Board Notes(access through Housekeeping folder on Schoology).

Types of Nonfiction: multiple choice

Columbine (narrative structure, utilizes elements of fiction) vs Stolen Focus (single argument/importance of introduction)

Argument Thesis Structure & Evidence 11,11: writing a sample thesis and offering evidence

~ be able to write an accurately structured argument thesis. Know what kinds of evidence should be incorporated into an argument.

(Argument thesis structure is accessed through the link in the directions for the assignment "Stolen Focus & Connections to Our World", found on Schoology).