AP English III
2017 3rd 9 Weeks Exam Review Sheet
The essential materials you will need to prepare for this test are as follows:
Comedy Ladder/Satire Terms Handout (website)
The Onion “Girl Moved to Tears by Of Mice and Men Cliff Notes”
Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” LOC 914-921 (Check website for discussion questions)
Dave Barry’s “Waging Germ Warfare”
Benjamin Franklin’s “An Economical Project”
Is it Satire? Power Point presentation with political cartoons and other humor (posted on website)
Good People by David Lindsay Abaire
A good portion of the test questions will be the reading test over Act II of Good People Over these last chapters there will be questions and plot based multiple choice questions. There will be some analysis level questions over passages we have covered thoroughly in class, esp. those which appeared on the multiple choice practice and theme questions that span your understanding of the entire novel.
Some questions on the test will be cold reading passages; you will be asked to identify rhetorical devices in both cold and familiar passages as well as determine what level of the comedy ladder these selections are at and what elements of satire they utilize to develop their arguments.
Be familiar with all the tone words. There may be a tone question for each shorter works. Tone multiple choice answer will be selected from the tone words sheet. Spend time to go through each short selection and make sure you remember the tone for each.
Make sure you can identify the thesis and conclusion of each argumentative passage. Also be able to identify major structural features and the author’s primary mode of persuasion such as ethos, pathos, and logos. Be prepared to identify rhetorical fallacies in the context of passages.
There will be a series of political satire and cartoons on the test, some of with which you are not familiar. You will be asked is the cartoon/image fits into the definition of satire and if so, who is the primary object of attack for that satire. In other words, whose folly or vice does the cartoon seek to redress. Use your notes and the satire presentation we looked at in class to prepare for this section. Note, if the cartoon’s joke depends entirely on low comedy, it cannot, by definition, be satire.