AP Lang Exam Review

Describe your task for the rhetorical analysis essay

• take a position on a topic

• using 6-7 sources, merge information to craft a persuasive essay

• eliminate the most obvious non-answers to pick the best answer choice

• analyze the author's purpose and the rhetorical effect on the audience

Identify common rhetorical strategies that you can use in your analysis essay

• diction, imagery, contrast, anecdote

• speaker, message, audience, purpose

• observes, asserts, and debates

• all of the above

the use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience

• diction

• imagery

• anaphora

• rhetorical question

Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row. Helps emphasize the writer's point.

• anaphora

• repetition

• imagery

• diction

a question that is asked but not meant to be answered. Authors use this to make the audience reflect or question their own behavior/ideology

• analogy

• rhetorical questions

• hyperbole

• irony

the opposite of what is expected. authors use this to create humor, suspense, and/or an emphasis on a particular subject. Also used to draw attention to a certain idea.

• pathos

• Parallel Structure

• logos

• irony

this device is used to create a sense of relatability amongst the audience, deeper connection, or to establish the author's credibility through personal experience

• pathos

• emotional diction

• anecdotes

• ethos

the author's choice of words or phrases in a speech or writing. The author's word choice can have various purposes depending on the TYPE.

• elevated diction

• contrast

• diction

• formal diction

When is your AP English Exam?

• May 8, in the AM

• May 8, in the PM

• May 9, in the PM

• May 9, in the AM

What do we mean by rhetorical effect?

• the author's intended emotional response on the audience

• the situation that brings a text to life, such as speaker, message, audience

• the author's purpose, in other words, what they want the audience to do

• the speaker's targeted audience, in other words, who are they trying to reach