AP Lang- Review/Practice

“If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

Which of the following best describes what the author is doing in this passage?

• Using vivid imagery to fully describe a character in a narrative.

• Expanding on an original statement by using repetition in order to increase the original statement's intensity.

• disrupting the usual grammar or syntax of a sentence

• repeating initial vowel and consonant sounds to draw attention to a specific element

Yoda said, "Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”

Which of the following best describes the rhetorical technique he used there?

• Balancing a positive with a negative

• Over-exaggerating a statement

• placing opposite elements next to each other to draw a comparison

• purposefully repeating the end of one sentence or clause at the beginning of the next sentence or clause

“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade."

Which of the following is the best description of the rhetorical strategy used?

• providing a logical conclusion

• balancing of a negative with a positive

• comparing two direct opposites

• emotional appeal

"Our neighborhood needs a community garden to foster our relationships with one another. Not only is it great for getting to know each other, but a community garden will also provide us with all kinds of fresh fruit and vegetables. It would be wrong to say that people who disagree aren’t invested in others’ health and wellness, but those who have the neighborhood’s best interests in mind will support a community garden."

What is the speaker doing here?

• praising people who want to build a community garden

• using irony ("it would be wrong to say") to call people out for not wanting a community garden

• talk trash about community gardens

• criticize the idea that someone wants to build a community garden

An author writes a piece about gun control in response to a school shooting that happened a week ago. The school shooting is best described as the ________ of the piece.

• Exigence

• Context

• Speaker

• Purpose

"Listen- AP Lang is great."

"Hey- Spiderman is the best superhero of all time."

In both of the above examples, which best describes the function of the first word in the sentence?

• using a word or phrase to draw attention to the thought that comes afterward

• Repeating the word from the previous clause for increased emphasis

• A disruption of normal syntactical structure

• An incorrectly used dash/hyphen

My uncle passed away yesterday.

I had to put my cat to sleep.

The above statements are all examples of...

• something really awesome happening

• inversion of the subject of a sentence

• Using a gentler phrase to make something unpleasant sound nicer

This week is very stressful. First, students must study for exams in every class. Second, final grades are due, so they must get all incomplete work turned in. Finally, they must actually take the exams.

This is an example of...

• a clear proposition of a question followed by a clear answer

• antidisestablishmentarianism

• the breaking up of a sentence in order to place effect on the last sentence or thought

• separating a speech into parts to clearly demonstrate a line of reasoning

"I know what you’re thinking—that sounds really complicated! But bear with me, because it’s actually quite simple."

Here, the speaker is...

• anticipating the reader's agreement with his/her statement

• personifying the bear to show that they really do have feelings

• anticipating an objection and easing the thoughts of the reader

• replacing an unpleasant statement with an easier word

Of the two options below, which is an example of an OPEN thesis?

• Harry Potter is the best book ever because it has relatable characters, simplistic plot, and fantastical elements.

• The timelessness of Harry Potter is illustrated by the constant revivals of the book through many avenues.