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AP Language And Composition Exam Review Questions & Detailed Answers
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AP Language And Composition Exam ReviewQuestions & Detailed Answers
Rhetorical Analysis Prompt - ANS Free Response question that includes a prompt
and a passage. The prompt asks you to critically read the passage and write a well
developed essay in which you analyze something aspect of the passage.
Trope - ANS A category of figurative language in which words are used in a way
that changes their meanings.
Scheme - ANS A category of figurative language in which words keep their
meanings, but the order or construction of the sentence is stylistic.
Argument Prompt - ANS Free Response question that asks you to develop an
argument based upon a quote, a brief passage, or an issue. You are encouraged to
support your argument with your own observations, experiences, and examples.
Synthesis Prompt - ANS Free Response question that asks you to develop an
argument based upon an issue and several accompanying sources. You have to use
at least three of the sources to support your argument; however, your argument
must be central.
Rhetorical Situation/Triangle - ANS According to Aristotle, this outlines the
relationship between speaker, audience, purpose, and context. It illustrates the
interaction between these rhetorical pieces.
, SOAPSTone - ANS This acronym is used to help you better understand the
rhetorical situation and the aspects of the text to consider. It includes speaker,
occasion, audience, purpose, subject, and tone.
DILDS - ANS This acronym is used to help you better understand and discuss tone.
It includes diction, imagery, language, details, and syntax.
Satire - ANS This is a type of writing that uses humor techniques to call attention to
vice or folly.
Irony - ANS This figure of speech--there are three types: situational, dramatic, and
verbal--that involves an unexpected outcome or some element of contradiction or
surprise.
Hyperbole - ANS A figure of speech that involves over exaggeration to emphasize
something.
Paradox - ANS A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd
but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Tone - ANS The attitudes and emotions an author demonstrates towards a topic.
Mood - ANS The attitudes and emotions a text elicits from the reader.
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