AP English Language Terms

The E in SPACECAT stands for

• Effect

• Exigence

• Evidence

• Eloquence

Which of these is the best definition of exigence?

• The spark or catalyst that moved the speaker to write the text

• The history of the text

• What the speaker is trying to accomplish

• The circumstances, atmosphere, attitudes, and events surrounding a text

Which of these is the best definition of a speaker's purpose?

• Why something is being done

• What the speaker is hoping to accomplish by publishing their text

• The background that defines the speaker

• How the speaker persuades

When creating a text, a writer would likely want to consider all of the following about their target audience EXCEPT (Select all correct answers.)

• Their values and beliefs

• How much they know about the topic

• Their background

• Their ability to answer multiple choice questions about the text

Context is best defined as

• The set of circumstances or facts that surround a particular event, situation, etc. (i.e. what is happening in the world politically, socially, economically, etc.)

• An urgent problem or issue that a writer feels compelled to address.

• The "what" of a text

• The particular spark or catalyst that moved an author to write

Which of these is the best definition of tone?

• How the speaker wants the audience to feel

• A speaker's attitude toward the subject conveyed by the speaker's stylistic and rhetorical choices

• The use of emotions to persuade an audience

• The volume of a speaker

When discussing an author's diction, you should. . .

• analyze the writer's sentence lengths as he/she should include a variety of sentences

• use an adjective to characterize the diction and identify patterns within the writer's word choices

• not specifically describe it to keep it open to interpretation

• also identify the tone created by the words

Which of the following is not a choice in syntax?

• Repetition or anaphora

• Parallelism

• Rhetorical questions

• Analogies

Which of these is NOT a rhetorical appeal?

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

• Topos

Which of the following would be a technique that BEST implements logos or logical persuasion?

• using pictures of a hurt child

• having someone credible who agrees with you

• making people laugh

• including researched facts or data about the topic