AP Language Final Exam Review Sheet
1. Thesis Writing Tips
1. Contents of Introduction (Title of Work)
2. Punctuation of titles (quotation marks vs. italics/underline)
3. thesis
4. avoid clichés and personal pronouns in formal analytical writing
5. structure /claim, data, warrant
2. Appeals (triangle in visual rhetoric packet)
1. ethos
2. logos
3. pathos
3. Visual rhetoric (power point and packet) know definition now
4. Juxtaposition (power point)
5. Tone vs. mood
6. Motif (Gatsby power point)
7. Seasonal symbolism (spring, summer, fall, winter) power point
8. theme (handout)
9. Diction
1. Denotation vs. connotation (handout)
2. euphemism
10. rhetorical modes (narration, description, comparison/contrast, definition, division, classification, cause and effect)
11. Style (claim data warrant PowerPoint)
12. Syntax (loose versus periodic)
13. Rhetorical strategies (www.americanrhetoric.com)
1. Antithesis
2. Anaphora
3. Parallelism (power point / types)
4. Asyndeton
5. Polysyndeton
6. Paradox
7. litotes
8. allegory
9. allusion
10. rhetorical question
11. understatement /hyperbole
12. anecdote
13. motif
14. synecdoche / metonymy
15. Apostrophe
16. inversion
17. allusion
14. Structure
1. Claim data warrant format (handout & Power Point)
2. shift
15. historical narratives (American literature book page 71)
1. primary vs. secondary sources
16. Satire - parody
17. Syntax
Loose versus periodic sentence
18. fallacy list (see AP workbook page I copied for you)
19. soapstone
20. argument versus persuasion