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AP Lang Review

What's the Test???

Question: What are the main sections of the test?
Answer: MC, DBQ(Synthesis) Essay, Rhetorical Analysis Essay, Argument Essay

Question: How much time is given for the MC section?
Answer: 60 minutes

Question: How much time is given for the essay sections?
Answer: Two hours total

Question: How are the MC and Essay scores weighted?
Answer: MC: 45%. Essays: 55%

Question: What are the five kinds of multiple choice questions?
Answer: Rhetoric, Author's Meaning and Purpose, Main Idea, Organization and Structure, Rhetorical Modes

The Essays

Question: What kind of essay elaborates on a series of steps?
Answer: Process-Analysis essay

Question: What is a Description essay most notable for?
Answer: Vivid and detailed imagery about a certain subject

Question: What are some ways to approach the Rhetorical Analysis essay?
Answer: Joliffe Framework, SOAPSTone, etc.

Question: What must one always include in an argument essay?
Answer: (Answers may vary, but the intended answer is) a Rebuttal/acknowledgement of the other side's argument

Question: Briefly explain the Rogerian model of an argument essay
Answer: Intro, representing side 1, representing side 2, common ground, proposed solution.

The Fallacies

Question: Answering a complex question with an easy answer
Answer: Oversimplification

Question: "I walked under a ladder and the next day my goldfish died. I should have been more superstitious!"
Answer: Post Hoc Fallacy

Question: What is the difference between Hasty Generalization and a Non Sequitur Fallacy?
Answer: Hasty Generalization is offering weak evidence whereas a non sequitur is offering irrelevant evidence.

Question: "If I can go 3 days without sleep, I should be able to sleep for 3 days!"
Answer: False analogy

Question: Give the definition of a red herring fallacy
Answer: Dragging in a side issue that's not relevant to the evidence.

Rhetoric!

Question: What is Rhetoric?
Answer: In general, the art of persuading, informing, and/or convincing, through discourse

Question: What is "Your argument is sound... all sound" (Ben Franklin) an example of?
Answer: Antanaclasis

Question: "Because Barack Obama assumed the presidency before ISIS gained power in the Middle East, Obama obviously precipitated its meteoric rise and the ensuing violence. Thanks, Obama!" - is an example of what fallacy?
Answer: Post Hoc (Ergo Propter Hoc)

Question: "Big man in a suit of armor. Take that off, what are you?" - is an example of what?
Answer: Rhetorical Question

Question: What is "It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." an example of?
Answer: Paradox

The Works

Question: What is Ernest Hemingway's distinctive style?
Answer: Minimalism

Question: "To be, or not to be - that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them.": Who wrote it? Who said it? To whom is it spoken?
Answer: Shakespeare. Hamlet (Hamlet). No one (Soliloquy!)

Question: What is David Foster Wallace's distinctive style?
Answer: Maximalism

Question: What is the analogy drawn in The Crucible?
Answer: In The Crucible, the Witch Hunt symbolizes the Second Red Scare, with the witches and witchcraft representing communism, and the accusers of witchcraft symbolizing HUAC and the McCarthyites.

Question: How are the writers Mark Twain and Kurt Vonnegut alike?
Answer: They both use satire and humor to poke fun at serious issues