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Study Guide for Mid-Term Exam

AP Language – Mr. McIlwain – 1/10

The exam will cover almost everything we’ve studied since August. It will be similar to the quarter test you took for me in the fall. Check the syllabi to refresh your memory. Fiske vocabulary words will not be tested explicitly. The format will be multiple-choice/Scantron and an in-class,synthesis essay.

Most of the terms listed below appear on the exam, which also features reading comprehension questions similar to those that appear on the AP English Language and Composition exam in May. Review your notes about how to approach multiple-choice/reading comprehension passages/questions.

Study for the exam by reviewing your notes and quizzing yourself. You needn’t reread everything, but you may wish to review selected texts. You should understand the characteristics of the literary movements we’ve studied (Neo-classicism, Romanticism, Realism) and into which movements the works that we have read fit.

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abstract language:

ad hominem argument/attack:

alliteration:

allegory:

allusion:

ambiguity:

analogy:

anecdote:

annotation

antithesis:

aphorism:

apostrophe:

argumentation

Aristotelian appeals (logos, pathos, ethos)

assonance

audience

autobiography

balanced sentence:

Bildungsroman

caricature:

case

claim (value, factual and policy)

clause

colloquial/colloquialism

conclusion

concrete, concrete language

connotation:

consonance

context

counterargument

deductive reasoning

denotation:

detail

dialect

didactic

diction (low, elevated)

either/or fallacy

ethos, logos, pathos

end rhyme

enthymeme

euphemism:

figurative language:

generalization

grounds (Toulmin)

hyperbole:

imagery (various types)

inductive reasoning:

internal rhyme

inverted syntax:

irony (situational, dramatic, verbal)

juxtaposition:

loose sentence:

meiosis (understatement):

meter

metaphor:

narrator

Neo-classicism

objective/subjective

onomatopoeia

paradox:

parallelism:

parody:

periodic sentence:

persona:

personification:

phrases

picaresque

point of view

premise (major, minor)

prose

purposes of argument

qualifier, qualified claim

Realism

reasoning

recitation skills

refutation

rhetoric:

rhetorical analysis

rhetorical précis

rhetorical situation

rhetorical triangle

rhyme (end, slant, internal)

Romanticism

sarcasm:

satire: Juvenalian, Horatian

simile

single effect (Poe)

SOAPSTone

subordinate clause

syllogism

symbol/symbolism

syntax

synthesis, synthesis essay

tone:

Toulmin model (parts, functions)

Transcendentalism (its definition, tenets, etc.)

thesis

verbs, verbals

voice (style)

warrant (Toulmin)