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AP TEST REVIEW
  • English Language and Composition

2
To prepare for the test
  • Study your AP rhetorical flash cards
  • Quiz yourself
  • Remember, you need to know these words to answer
    multiple choice questions AND to write the
    rhetorical analysis essay.
  • Look at the prompts I have given you that we have
    not written in class. Think about how you would
    write those essays.
  • Review the MLA format to prepare for those
    questions on the multiple choice section
  • Look at essays I have graded and returned to you.
    What did you do well? What could you have done
    better?

3
Test Day
  • Several pencils 2
  • Several black pensno white out allowed
  • YOU MUST USE A PEN ON THE ESSAY PORTION OF THE
    EXAM
  • Eat Breakfast!
  • BE HERE! BE EARLY!

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. Multiple Choice Section About 55 questions1
hour2. EssaysSelf-paced (40 minutes each 15
minute reading period)
Test Reminders 3 Hours and 15 minutes
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  • MULTIPLE CHOICE

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Types of Multiple Choice Questions
  • 1. The straightforward question
  • 2. The question that refers you to specific lines
    and asks you to draw a conclusion or to interpret
  • 3. The ALL EXCEPT question
  • 4. The question that asks you to make an
    inference or to abstract a concept not directly
    stated in the passage
  • 5. The killer Roman numeral question
  • 6. The footnote question

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Specific Techniques
  • Anticipate the right answer
  • Figure out the answer BEFORE looking at the
    possible choices
  • Eliminate obviously wrong answers
  • Remember, you can write on the test
  • Rhetorical strategy questions are usually
    straightforward
  • Look for key words that make an answer wrong
    cross it out
  • Watch for answers that are too narrow or too
    broad be wary of absolutes
  • Be an ACTIVE READER you know what this means!
  • Annotating is not optional!
  • Try to visualize the info as you read it dont
    try memorizing facts

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Specific Techniques (continued)
  • Every 10 questions, check to make sure you are
    bubbling the right answer
  • Watch your time dont leave any unanswered
  • Mentally paraphrase sections as you read
  • Skip hard questions and come back to them
  • Go back before moving on to the next passage
  • Skim the questions before reading the passage
  • Skip ones that have specific line numbers

9
  • Rhetorical Analysis Essay

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Rhetorical Analysis
  • This essay ask you to analyze another authors
    use of
  • 1.structure
  • 2. purpose
  • 3. style
  • Remember, you are writing about HOW they
    construct their argument, not merely what their
    argument is. Do not summarize!

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Organizing Your Essay
  • When writing your introduction paragraph, get to
    the point quickly. Dont use information from the
    prompt to pad your intro
  • Your body paragraphs should be all about what the
    writer said, how he said it, and why he said it
    the way he did for his purpose.

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SAMPLE Analysis Questions
  • Analyze an authors view on a specific subject
  • Analyze rhetorical devices used by an author to
    achieve his or her purpose
  • Analyze stylistic elements in a passage and their
    effects
  • Analyze the authors tone and how the author
    conveys this tone
  • Discuss the intended and/or probable effect of a
    passage

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SAMPLE Analysis Questions Cont.
  • Compare and/or contrast two passages with regard
    to style, purpose, or tone
  • Analyze the authors purpose and how he or she
    achieves it
  • Analyze some of the ways an author recreates a
    real or imagined experience
  • Analyze how an author presents him or herself in
    the passage

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Elements of Style (Rhetorical Devices)
  • 1. subject matter
  • 2. selection of detail
  • 3. organization
  • 4. point of view
  • 5. diction
  • 6. figures of speech
  • 7. tone

15
Reading the Prompt
  • Plan to spend a couple minutes carefully reading
    and deconstructing the question
  • Circle or underline the essential terms and
    elements in the prompt
  • If the prompt requires more than one element, you
    must use more than one!
  • A.P. Address the Prompt

16
While Reading the Passage
  • ANNOTATE

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WARNINGS
  • Avoid paraphrasing the material
  • Use TEXTUAL evidence Be specific
  • Analyze the textual evidence dont just
    summarize/paraphrase it say something about it
    and how it relates.
  • Use transitions
  • Vary your syntax
  • Make SPECIFIC analysis! (Avoid The authors
    diction good syntax keeps your attention)

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IMPORTANT
  • Connect every strategy to the authors idea or
    main point.
  • e.g. Dillard uses violent imagery such as
    crunching, bites, and splitting in order to
    foreshadow her point at the end that people
    should shed their lackadaisical ways and live
    with passion.
  • or e.g. Words such as bites, killing, and
    splitting, foreshadow the intensity of her
    purpose.

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  • ARGUMENTATIVE/
  • OPEN-ENDED ESSAY

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The Basics
  • 2 Possibilities A given text to support,
    qualify, or refute or a broad issue upon which
    you must take a side
  • If you are responding to a text, be sure you
    understand the position taken by the author
  • Take a specific stand you may qualify the
    claim, but be specific in what you support and
    what you dont. You may also support or refute
    the prompt
  • When supporting a prompt, you must include your
    own original ideas dont just parrot the prompt.

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The Basics (cont.)
  • Clearly and logically support your claim
  • Argue your point(s) rationally despite how you
    may personally feel
  • Remember, this is an essay not a diatribe
  • Relevant anecdotal and/or outside information is
    good
  • Connecting your experience to broader, more
    objective evidence is better
  • Good to develop an authorial voice, but be
    mindful of your audience (triangle!)
  • As always, be sure you ADDRESS THE PROMPT!

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EXAMPLES OF GOOD EVIDENCE FOR YOU TO USE IN YOUR
RESPONSE
  • Facts/ statistics
  • Details
  • Quotations
  • Dialogue
  • Needed definitions
  • Recognition of the opposition
  • Examples
  • Anecdotes
  • Contrasts and comparisons
  • Cause and effect
  • Appeal to authority

23
Classical Argumentative Scheme
  • Part 1 Introductory Paragraph
  • -catch interest
  • -present the issue or topic with concrete image
    or anecdote
  • -provide any relevant background information
  • -define pertinent terms
  • -state claim

24
Classical Argumentative Scheme Cont..
  • Part 2 Concession and Refutation
  • -ignoring the other side is dangerous
  • -find weaknesses within the opposing reasons,
    facts, testimonies, etc.
  • -yes, is the concession but is the
    refutation
  • -you still must demonstrate that your claims are
    more valid
  • -you may concede or refute in the introductory
    paragraph or through the body paragraphs as you
    bring up additional points

25
Classical Argumentative Scheme Cont.
  • Part 3 Confirmation Paragraphs
  • -the most important and longest section of the
    argument
  • -provides the reasons and the evidence of a
    writers claim
  • -shows the logical development of the argument
  • -should include both logical reasons and evidence
    but also emotional appeals to human needs or
    values
  • -incorporate other modes of discourse to further
    develop your writing

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Classical Argumentative Scheme Cont.
  • Part 4 Concluding Paragraph
  • -wrap up the argument
  • -restate the claim
  • -provide a new appeal to needs or values
  • -enrich with additional commentary
  • -voice a final plea for readers to take action or
    to change thinking
  • -refrain from repeating any information

27
  • SYNTHESIS ESSAY

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What is the Purpose?
  • The College Board wants to determine that you
    can
  • -Read critically
  • -Understand texts
  • -Analyze texts
  • -Develop a position on a given topic
  • -Support a position with appropriate evidence
    from outside sources
  • -Incorporate outside sources into the text of the
    essay
  • -Cite sources used
  • -And most importantly, THINK for yourself

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Source Possibilities
  • Six or seven documents
  • Short works
  • At least one visual, non textual (charts,
    cartoons, tables, etc.)
  • Black and white print
  • Opposing views
  • You are invited to join the conversation

30
Points to Remember
  • YOU are choosing your view and using the sources
    to support that view
  • Weaker writers have a tendency to paraphrase and
    list - dont do that
  • Use at least three sources
  • Use them naturally
  • Cite/ attribute sources
  • Have a conversation with the texts dont merely
    report what they have to say
  • Like in the open-ended prompt, you are welcome to
    support, qualify, and refute the sources!

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Points to Remember (continued)
  • Judge the validity of the sources
  • Essays starting with an anecdote tend to score
    higher if possible, refer back to it later in
    the essay
  • You are welcome to add examples of real life
    scenarios and facts if they help prove your
    argument
  • The vast majority of the essay needs to be YOUR
    thoughts
  • As always, make sure you are answering the prompt

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  • The test is 3 hrs and 15 minutes long. You have
    one hour for the first section, multiple choice.
    This section consists of 52-58 multiple choice
    questions over 4 or 5 passages, mostly
    nonfiction. (45 of score)
  • Your have a fifteen minute reading period and
    then 2 hours to complete the 3 essays. The essays
    are prose analysis, argumentation, and synthesis.
    Sometimes a double passage requires you to
    compare and contrast 2 pieces based on rhetorical
    strategies. (55 of score)

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  • Pay close attention to the connotation of words
  • Pace yourself
  • Annotate
  • Remember HOW not plot summary
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