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.
Lou Gehrig Farewell Speech
Occasion, Context, Purpose
The Rhetorical Triangle
SOAPS
George W. Bush 9/11 Speech
Ethos, Logos, Pathos
The King’s Speech
Conceding and Refuting
Slow Food Nation
The Checkers Speech
Mr. Collins Proposal (ineffective rhetoric)
All terms on pages 36-38.
Chapter 2.
Diction and Syntax
Queen Elizabeth’s Speech
Churchill Speech from Text
Ralph Ellison “On Bird, Bird-Watching and Jazz”
Metaphor, simile, personification, hyberbole
Joan Didion, “The Santa Ana Winds”
Groucho Marx Letter
JFK “Inaugural Address”
Terms 78-80
Chapter 3—up to page 115 and including terms at the end.
What is argument? Rogerian and Zero Sum
“Why Investing in Fast Food May Be a Good Thing”
Types of Claims: (Fact, Value, Policy)
Roger Ebert (Star Wars)
Thesis Statements (open, closed, counterargument)
Red Herring
Ad hominem fallacy
ALL FALLACIES—plus review activity on 109
The Politics Unit:
Street Fight
The Gathering Storm
George Orwell “Politics and the English Language” and “Shooting an Elephant”
Know Orwell’s Six Rules for Good Writing
New Yorker Profile of Michael Bloomberg and Atlantic Monthly article on Bloomberg
Thoreau “Civil Disobedience”
Lincoln—Gettysburg Address
Laura Blumenfield—The Apology—Letters from a Terrorist
Sarah Vowell, from The Partly Cloudy Patriot.
Marjane Satrapi—From Persepolis
Technology and Pop Culture Unit:
“Does the Internet Make You Smarter?” By Clay Shirky-WSJ
“Does the Internet Make You Dumber?” By Nicholas Carr-WSJ
Miyamoto Profile from the New Yorker
Hamlet’s Blackberry—focus on part 2. The Seven Great Thinkers. Summaries of each near end of book will help—but not all the way.
Digital Nation documentary—questions taken from web site clips.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/view/
Page One Documentary (The Apparatus of Accountability)
60 Minutes Segment on New Orleans Times-Picayune
Steven Johnson “Watching TV Makes You Smarter”
Chuck Klosterman “My Zombie, Myself: Why Modern Life Feels Rather Undead”
David Denby “High-School Confidential: Notes on Teen Movies”
James McBride, “Hip Hop Planet”
ANY OTHER PIECES THAT WE READ THIS WEEK!!
***There may be a few questions on AP Language Test Taking Strategy for the timed essays.
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