"Love words, agonize over sentences.
And pay attention to the world."
- Susan Sontag
And pay attention to the world."
- Susan Sontag
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The official home page for the AP Language and Composition exam. This site includes test dates, exam structure overviews, and previous test questions. It's a wonderful study resource. This provides a basic overview of how the test is organized. It can be found on the AP Central College Board website, but this is a direct link.
In addition, here is a general rubric for all three writings |
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Just like it sounds, this is a subpage on the AP Central College Board page. It provides past test questions and is especially helpful for viewing the three writing prompts: the rhetorical analysis, the argument writing, and the synthesis paper.
Specifically, this link utilizes the 2018 and 2019 exam and scores them against the new rubric for 2020. Pay attention to the essays as well as the commentaries. Question 1: synthesis Question 2: rhetorical analysis Question 3: argument |
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The College Board has hundreds of rhetorical terms they recommend students know for the AP Lang and Comp exam. That's a bit much, so here are 29 terms I really want you to focus on. These are terms that appear most often on the exam and/or are most applicable to the writing we will be working on.
These terms are particularly helpful for the multiple choice section; however, in your writing, we will go beyond identifying these strategies and focus on the strategies utilizing those terms. |
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Albert offers a plethora of mini-quizzes on analyzing the rhetoric of various notable nonfiction passages. Some questions don't exactly sound like genuine AP questions—the style is a little more informal and to the point—but they are solid practice for answering questions about rhetorical techniques as applied in a given passage. You can’t access the most difficult questions if you don’t pay, but all of the other question levels are free.
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Writing Prompts:
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This document offers the prompts since 2007 (the first year of the synthesis essay). The topics are far-reaching; therefore, while we will cover topics thematically, the ability to approach the style of writing is key.
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Multiple Choice Overview |
This document provides a general overview including
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