AP Lang Review 3: Evidence, Commentary, and diction

Before you begin to select evidence what should you have first?

• A pen and a paper

• A debatable thesis

• Know what the writer is doing

• Have read the text.

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Term to describe WORD CHOICE!

• syntax

• diction

• colloquial diction

• slang

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

SYNTAX can best be defined as...

• word choice

• sentence structure

• rhetorical question

• how we build argument

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

dictionary definition of a word

• denotation

• connotation

• diction

• connote

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is evidence?

• the central argument

• quotes and paraphrases you pull directly from the text in order to support your argument

• explains to the reader why and how the quotes and paraphrases that were used helps prove the claim to be true

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

What is commentary?

• the central argument

• quotes and paraphrases you pull directly from the text in order to support your argument

• explains to the reader why and how the quotes and paraphrases that were used helps prove the claim to be true

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI. 9-10.8

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

The speech states, “... one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers” (King).

This sentence is:

• Evidence

• Commentary

• Neither

• Both

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

The statement “black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as brothers and sisters” means that he wants them to be able to work together without the judgement of skin color (King).

This sentence is:

• Evidence

• Commentary

• Neither

• Both

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

King uses the allusion to the Emancipation Proclamation to emphasize his point that even though slavery was outlawed, racism still existed.

This sentence is:

• Evidence

• Commentary

• Neither

• Both

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Dr. King uses imagery to make people see a picture inside their head.

This sentence is:

• Evidence

• Commentary

• Neither

• Both

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1