<p>We can generalize about FRQs. We can’t give specific details about the question itself</p>
<p>OMG, OMG, on the synthesis essay I did 3 examples. Am I going to fail? ■■■. ■■■. ■■■.</p>
<p>I used colloquialisms and and a lack of Rogerian arguement though I’m a little worried since the latter isn’t exactly a rhetorical device.</p>
<p>Am I the only one that used metonymy? It seemed pretty obvious to me from the first paragraphs of both passages on the lit analysis…</p>
<p>is contradiction a rhetorical device? I was kind of iffy on that : /</p>
<p>well paradox and oxymoron are contradiction and are rhetorical devices. For the analysis, I used fallacies, diction, tone, antithesis, and dichotomy.</p>
<p>Wait, we could only give 2 issues for the DBQ? I don’t remember reading that?</p>
<p>Wait wat the ****? we could only give two issues for the DBQ?? NO way!</p>
<p>No I meant were we supposed to give more than 1 issue on the DBQ/synthesis or is 1 issue explained in 2 different situations ok?</p>
<p>Is it ok if I didn’t mention any rhetorical devices? I never took an AP English Language course that teaches those specifically. I just talked about the logical fallacies and the style of the prose and analyzed it</p>
<p>Anonymous, assuming you got a 7 on one essay, another 7 and a 3 on the essay with -10 MC, you’re getting a really high 4, only five points away from a five.</p>
<p>tim what about ommiting 7 in the mcs and guessing like 5wrong
and 7, 6, 6 on the essays?</p>
<p>How much do you think they would penalize for bad handwriting (not too bad but at the point where you have to struggle a little to understand)? I just at writing with a pen.</p>
<p>Greetings,</p>
<p>Here are my thoughts on the exam, MC was cake. Nearly as easy as the SAT CR. The questions were probing and required knowledge of terms and literature - but were also very straight forward, no curveballs here. Additionally, I found it INCREDIBLY easy to eliminate answers - it was very easy to reduce the possible answer choices to 2/3 using logic, and guessing afterwards (not that any of these questions were difficult enough to warrant this.)</p>
<p>Essays - All three were weak in my opinion.
Synthesis- Topic/Sources were adequate. The prompt, however, was stupid. Why not ask us to take a side, this reminds me of a museum prompt from several years ago we did in class-this was especially frustrating for me because I more or less took a side.</p>
<p>Rhetorical Analysis - Overall lack of specific rhetorical elements, there was easily enough to write a sufficient analysis of AP test length, but not much more. I found the passages quite humorous.</p>
<p>Persuasive Essay - Am I taking an AP test or SAT test? I felt this was way too simple - and not controversial enough. I see everyone arguing with a qualified thesis here. </p>
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<p>So I left sure I had gotten a 5, but after talking with friends about their essays, im a little unsure about my performance.</p>
<p>45+/55 MC raw score (including wrong answers)
Essay 1 - Wrote a great essay, however I was anxious to get started and misread the prompt (I took a side on whether or not space exploration is worth the cost.) If the prompt was what I had written for, I felt like it was 8/9 work. However, since I never directly answered the question I’m worried here. Needless to say - I’m not sure what to expect. I’d think a 5 because the core debate in both prompts is the same, just that my thesis is poor.</p>
<p>Essay 2 - Confident here. 7/8.</p>
<p>Essay 3 - Used plenty of evidence, one literary example and two made up stories of personal experience. Decent. 6. </p>
<p>What should I expect for a grade? I’m thinking I’m on the 4/5 line. Hoping MC/an understanding grader of essay 1 will pull me up.</p>
<p>"well paradox and oxymoron are contradiction and are rhetorical devices. For the analysis, I used fallacies, diction, tone, antithesis, and dichotomy. "</p>
<p>Ah man, I knew I forgot to put a word, “antithesis” D<</p>
<p>The MC was really, really easy. A lot of things that the Kaplan tested were not on there compared to this,for some reason, but in reality both were not difficult at all.</p>
<p>The essays - I did slightly less well than I thought. The prompts were not very straightforward, so I had to make a few more notes than usual to make sure I could answer the thesis. Writing down to the last minute is so not my style though. Wrote around 3 1/2 pages for each, but probably missed one or two rhetorical devices for each that I really wanted to say. Not sure if I explained enough, but then again, I like to explain quotes to a somewhat crazy extent…</p>
<p>For the analysis I talked about exaggeration, colloquialism, language, syntax, diction. Forgot antithesis and tone…dang!
MC was really easy, I agree. Way easier than practice tests. I answered all, prob got 5-10 wrong.</p>
<p>why did everyone just list rhetorical devices for prompt 2? the prompt never asked for rhetorical devices, but how he just uses satire to show that both arguments are ludicrous. you don’t HAVE to list rhetorical devices for that one, otherwise it would have stated so. </p>
<p>agreed connor with the synthesis essay; i took a side, hopefully my grade isn’t screwed up because of it.</p>
<p>Hate to repeat myself, but I’m a little worried. Could someone answer my question? </p>
<p>"Also, is it okay if I qualified the synthesis question a little, even if it didn’t say we could specifically? I gave two different issues in separate paragraphs, and then in another paragraph I said how we should still continue doing it despite those issues because it has more benefits to do so <_< "</p>
<p>Wheatbread:</p>
<p>Part of proving that something is an effective satire, or any form of style, and the fact that their “arguments” were useless, is using rhetorical devices to help prove an analysis. However, there really is no need if you have another effective way of going about analyzing something, so if you didn’t use it, it’s all good as long as it’s logical. For me, I know and enjoy using rhetorical devices, so I used them in my analysis.</p>
<p>cld_1992:</p>
<p>The only time a qualifying essay wouldn’t be successful is if you didn’t take a definitive position at the end…you did eventually choose pro or con, right?</p>
<p>For prompt two, I only used two rhetorical devices- colloquialism and tone [sarcastic/exaggeration]. Do you think that’ll be okay? One body paragraph for each, by the way.</p>