Nevertheless, there are still a handful of rhetorical strategies that get asked about in other ways, and in certain cases, you may need to be able to recognize - or will at least find it extremely helpful to be able to recognize - some of them. In addition, some answers may include a rhetorical term, but in such a way that you can eliminate/choose the answer without actually knowing the term. In practice, you can answer most of these questions regardless of whether you can identify the particular rhetorical figure or not. Now, some multiple-choice questions may still allude to certain common rhetorical figures, but most of these questions will ask about the purpose or function of these figures. To reiterate: if you go to the bookstore and buy a guide published by one of these companies, it will contain misleading information about the content of the test. The major test-prep publishers (Kaplan, Princeton Review, Barron’s, McGraw Hill) have not caught onto this, however, and so they are still including these old-style questions in their AP English Comp books. (You may, however, see questions testing less technical terms, e.g., abstract language.)īut please note: if you are studying from exams administered before 2014, you may indeed see these terms.įor a description of the College Board’s revised stance on rhetorical terminology, see the 2014 Course Description, p. So you know those questions that directly ask you to identify whether a particular set of lines includes, for example, oxymoron, antithesis, or syncope? They’re gone. To sum up: since 2014, the AP English Language and Composition exam has NOT included questions directly testing knowledge of high-level rhetorical figures. I realized after posting yesterday that I had buried the most practical information in the middle of what became a much longer-than-intended meditation/diatribe, so I’m re-posting the key information here in condensed form.
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