AP Language - Reading Multiple Choice Questions

Strategies for Reading Section

• Summarize the main idea of each paragraph.

• Even brief margin notes can help.

• Focus on understanding the big ideas.

• Consider the relationships between paragraphs and ideas.

  • Complementary: Similar ideas.

  • Contrasting: Refuting ideas.

• Identify shifts in focus or argument.

• Analyze how paragraphs develop the passage.

• Identify rhetorical elements.

  • Author's tone.

  • Author's purpose