BERGEN COUNTY TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL

AP LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION

2016 SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENT

“AP English Language and Composition engages students in becoming skilled readers of prose written in a variety of periods, disciplines, and rhetorical contexts and in becoming skilled writers who compose for a variety of purposes. Both their writing and their reading should make students aware of the interactions among a writer's purposes, audience expectations, and subjects as well as the way generic conventions and the resources of language contribute to effectiveness in writing.

“[The course] allows students to write in a variety of forms—narrative, exploratory, expository, argumentative—and on a variety of subjects from personal experiences to public policies, from imaginative literature to popular culture. Therefore, [it] emphasizes the expository, analytical, and argumentative writing that forms the basis of academic and professional communication as well as the personal and reflective writing that fosters the development of writing facility in any context….Its purpose is to enable students to read complex texts with understanding and to write prose of sufficient richness and complexity to communicate effectively with mature readers” (The College Board).

Students entering AP Language and Composition must complete the followingreading and writing assignments:

  1. Zinsser, William. On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction.

(30th anniversary edition)AND

  1. McCourt, Frank. Angela’s Ashes.(any edition)

ASSIGNMENTS

ASSIGNMENT 1

READ BOTH OF THE ABOVE TEXTS AND BE PREPARED TO DO A GROUPPRESENTATION (DETAILS TO BE DISCUSSED DURING THE FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL) THAT REQUIRES A DISCUSSION OF THE APPLICATION OF ZINSSER’S WRITING PRINCIPLES TO ANGELA’S ASHES. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE COPIES OF THE BOOKS AVAILABLE TO YOU DURING THE FIRST TWO WEEKS OF SCHOOL.

ASSIGNMENT 2

THE FOLLOWING ASSIGNMENT MUST BE COMPLETED IN YOUR OWN HANDWRITING.

  1. Prepare the following96rhetorical terms.Include the TERM and the DEFINITION and an EXAMPLE. AN EXAMPLE WILL BE KEY TO UNDERSTANDING THE TERM.
  2. You may either keep a hand-written notebook of terms, definitions, and examples, or create notecards with definitions and examples on the back (please write your name on EVERY page of your notebook or on EVERY one of your notecards).

1 / alliteration / 49 / loose sentence
2 / allegory / 50 / meiosis
3 / allusion / 51 / metaphor
4 / ambiguity / 52 / metonymy
5 / analogy / 53 / modifier
6 / anaphora / 54 / narration
7 / anecdote / 55 / omniscient narrator
8 / annotation / 56 / onomatopoeia
9 / antecedent / 57 / oxymoron
10 / antithesis / 58 / paradox
11 / aphorism / 59 / parallelism
12 / apostrophe / 60 / parody
13 / appositive / 61 / pathos
14 / argument / 62 / pedantic
15 / assonance / 63 / periodic sentence
16 / asyndeton / 64 / persona
17 / caricature / 65 / personification
18 / chiasmus / 66 / polysyndeton
19 / colloquialism / 67 / Poetry
20 / complex sentence / 68 / predicate adjectives
21 / connotation / 69 / predicate nominative
22 / consonance / 70 / prose
23 / cumulative sentence / 71 / rhetoric
24 / declarative sentence / 72 / rhetorical modes
25 / deduction / 73 / rhetorical question
26 / denotation / 74 / rhetorical triangle
27 / diction / 75 / sarcasm
28 / didactic / 76 / satire
29 / dramatic irony / 77 / Scheme
30 / epigram / 78 / Simile
31 / ethos / 79 / simple sentence
32 / euphemism / 80 / situation irony
33 / exposition / 81 / style
34 / figurative language / 82 / subordinate clause
35 / figure of speech / 83 / syllogism
36 / fragment / 84 / synecdoche
37 / homily / 85 / symbol
38 / hyperbole / 86 / synesthesia
39 / imagery / 87 / syntax
40 / imperative sentence / 88 / synthesis
41 / induction / 89 / theme
42 / inference / 90 / thesis
43 / invective / 91 / tone
44 / inversion / 92 / trope
45 / irony / 93 / understatement
46 / juxtaposition / 94 / verbal irony
47 / litotes / 95 / voice
48 / logos / 96 / zeugma

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE EMAIL MR. KRUGER () or MS. BIGGINS ().

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