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Miss Collier: AP Lang & Comp
Semester 1 Study Guide
Your Quarter 1 exam will consist of 45 multiple choice questions and a 45 minute rhetorical analysis essay.
Key Terms and Concepts:
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Miss Collier: AP Lang & Comp
Semester 1 Study Guide
o Rhetoric
o Language
o Rhetorical Strategies
o Rhetorical Mode
o Rhetorical Device
o Stylistic Elements
o Style
o Diction
o Syntax
o Tone
o How to work a prompt
o How to work a passage through close reading
o How to write a rhetorical analysis essay.
o How to write an argumentative essay
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Semester 1 Study Guide
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Rhetorical Devices
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o Figurative Language
o Allusion
o Alliteration
o Imagery
o Repetition
o Parallelism
o Metaphor
o Simile
o Irony
o Sarcasm
o Anecdote
o Analogy
o Anaphora
o Amplification
o Anadiplosis
o Hyperbole
o Understatement
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Miss Collier: AP Lang & Comp
Semester 1 Study Guide
Define and identify the following Rhetorical Modes:
o Narrative
o Description
o Definition
o Lexical
o Stipulative
o Extended
o Exposition
o Compare / Contrast
o Division and Classification
o Argument
Identify the title and author of passages from the following pieces. Also identify rhetorical mode and rhetorical devices used in each:
o Bradstreet, Anne. Before the Birth of One of Her Children.
o Brady, Judy. Why I Want a Wife
o Britt, Suzanne. Neat People vs. Sloppy People.
o Cisneros, Sandra. Only Daughter.
o Columbus, Christopher. Letter to Ferdinand and Isabel.
o Columbus, Christopher. Letter to Luis Santangel.
o Cusick, David. The Iroquois Creation Story.
o Didion, Joan. Marrying Absurd.
o Edwards, Jonathan. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.
o Hardin, Garrett. Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the Poor.
o Kidder, Tracy. Mountains Beyond Mountains.
o Kingsolver, Barbara. The Poisonwood Bible.
o Lloyd, J. W. Pima Stories of the Beginning of the World.
o Lutz, William. Doublespeak.
o Miller, Arthur. The Crucible.
o Naylor, Gloria. Meanings of a Word.
o Orwell, George. Shooting an Elephant.
o Parker, Jo Goodwin. “What is Poverty?”
o Sontag, Susan. Women’s Beauty: Power Source or Putdown?
o Williams, Tennesse. The Glass Menagerie.
o Sheehy, Gail. Predictable Crises of Adulthood.
o Tannen, Deborah. Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers
o Viorst, Judith. The Truth about Lying.
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