AP Lang & Comp
2nd Semester Exam Study Guide
Rhetorical Devices:
Matching—I’ll pull terms from your purple handout. Apparently some of you don't have this. Here are the terms that you should be prepared for:
Alliteration
Allusion
Analogy
Antithesis
Apostrophe
Assonance
Consonance
Euphemism
Flashback
Foreshadowing
Hyperbole
Imagery
Irony
Litotes
Metaphor
Metonymy
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
Paradox
Parallelism
Parody
Personification
Point of view
Protagonist
Pun
Rhetorical question
Rhyme
Sarcasm
Satire
Simile
Symbol
Synecdoche
Theme
Third-person
Tone
Everything’s an Argument:
Short answer—This
section of the exam will test your knowledge and understanding of the
kinds of arguments we dealt with this semester, including the visual
argument. Review your notes or reread sections of the chapters from
this semester with which you do not feel completely comfortable. Your
syllabus outlines all of the chapters we dealt with this semester.
Visual Argument:
You
will be given a visual argument to study and then you’ll answer
analysis questions regarding how the creator achieves his/her purpose
using language and images together.
Readings:
I’ll ask you two long-answer questions: one for Young Men and Fire and the second for The Sound and the Fury. Be sure to look over your reading journals for both.
AP Multiple Choice:
I’ll give you one section of an AP exam (a passage and the questions following).
AP Free-Response Essay:
I’ll give you one essay question for which you should allow yourself 40 minutes. Remember, it’s important that you pay attention to what the prompt is asking of you and that you respond to all parts of it.
