Semester Exam Study Guide

AP Lang & Comp

2^nd 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.