Ap language Mid-Term Review Sheet

(Format) Part 1: Memorize 3 Quotes from any text on this review sheet—minimum of 30 words total. Part 2: Approx. 40 Multiple Choice Questions. Part 3: Approx. 25-30 Short Answer Questions. Part 4: Approx. 10 Passages (identify author, title of piece, and explain what is being said.)

**Slightly More emphasis on New Material (Technology Unit)

Chapters 1, 2, 3
Disclaimer: The review sheet is made to help you concentrate your study on important parts of the chapters. The review sheet does not necessarily cover every question on the test.

Chapter 1.

1. 
   Lou Gehrig Farewell Speech
   
2. 
   Occasion, Context, Purpose
   
3. 
   The Rhetorical Triangle
   
4. 
   SOAPS
   
5. 
   George W. Bush 9/11 Speech
   
6. 
   Ethos, Logos, Pathos
   
7. 
   The King’s Speech
   
8. 
   Conceding and Refuting
   
9. 
   Slow Food Nation
   
10. 
    The Checkers Speech
    
11. 
    Mr. Collins Proposal (ineffective rhetoric)
    
12. 
    All terms on pages 36-38.
    

Chapter 2.

1. 
   Diction and Syntax
   
2. 
   Queen Elizabeth’s Speech
   
3. 
   Churchill Speech from Text
   
4. 
   Ralph Ellison “On Bird, Bird-Watching and Jazz”
   
5. 
   Metaphor, simile, personification, hyberbole
   
6. 
   Joan Didion, “The Santa Ana Winds”
   
7. 
   Groucho Marx Letter
   
8. 
   JFK “Inaugural Address”
   
9. 
   Terms 78-80
   

Chapter 3—up to page 115 and including terms at the end.

1. 
   What is argument? Rogerian and Zero Sum
   
2. 
   “Why Investing in Fast Food May Be a Good Thing”
   
3. 
   Types of Claims: (Fact, Value, Policy)
   
4. 
   Roger Ebert (Star Wars)
   
5. 
   Thesis Statements (open, closed, counterargument)
   
6. 
   Red Herring
   
7. 
   Ad hominem fallacy
   
8. 
   ALL FALLACIES—plus review activity on 109
   

1. 
   Street Fight
   

2. 
   The Gathering Storm
   

3. 
   George Orwell “Politics and the English Language” and “Shooting an Elephant”
   

4. 
   Know Orwell’s Six Rules for Good Writing
   

5. 
   New Yorker Profile of Michael Bloomberg and Atlantic Monthly article on Bloomberg
   

6. 
   Thoreau “Civil Disobedience”
   

7. 
   Lincoln—Gettysburg Address
   

8. 
   Laura Blumenfield—The Apology—Letters from a Terrorist
   

9. 
   Sarah Vowell, from The Partly Cloudy Patriot.
   

10. 
    Marjane Satrapi—From Persepolis
    

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