<p>what book is everyone using for the practice tests?</p>
<p>Im using Cliffs</p>
<p>Can someone please tell me they are much more different than the real thing???
I feel like they are.</p>
<p>On rhetorical analysis, the best thing to do to get a high score is keep a strong opinion, even though it’s not an opinion piece. For example, reading:</p>
<p>“[Author]'s matter-of-fact tone permeates through his essay, invigorating his stance on the seemingly small matter of public safety…”</p>
<p>is much more interesting than reading:</p>
<p>“[Author] uses strong tone and word choice to make public safety an important issue.”</p>
<p>Does anyone have any released exams they would like to send me (besides for 2001 and 2007)?</p>
<p>I really would appreciate and I have other exams from other APs…</p>
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<p>Thanks so much!</p>
<p>■■■</p>
<p>whats “matter-of-fact”?</p>
<p>We should compose a template list of phrases like this that may be used universally:</p>
<p>“[Author]'s tone permeates through his essay, invigorating his stance on the seemingly [y] matter of [z]…”</p>
<p>Where:</p>
<p>x=tone words: matter-of-fact, apathetic, ambivalent, condescending, etc.
y=adjective: small, odd, insane, etc.
z=topic being discussed in the essay</p>
<p>I second a list!!</p>
<p>quick question: are you allowed to do the essay question in any order you want? like do you have to circle number one first and work on the synthesis essay first? or can you do the synthesis essay last?</p>
<p>^you can do it in any order. Just circle on the page which prompt you are doing. But I suggest doing the synthesis essay first because it takes the longest.</p>
<p>Someone make a list!</p>
<p>okay, anyone who reads this page needs to officially contribute to the list :)</p>
<p>WOOH~ I have two days to study for this. Great. </p>
<p>My MC skills need some work…mostly because I need to just practice recognizing my rhetorical devices.</p>
<p>The synthesis should be pretty easy. The rhetorical will be hardest for me because I actually need to learn my rhetorical devices.</p>
<p>Why’s everyone freaking about rhetorical devices? You don’t even have to know the names (except on the MC, but the 4-5 questions there only require that you know the basics, like analogy and hyperbole, and alliteration comes up a lot). What’s really important is that you can pinpoint the EFFECT.</p>
<p>yeah, well anyone who thinks the MC is hard just type I don’t like the MC</p>
<p>buuuuuuuuuuuuuump</p>
<p>Well, yes, the effect is most important, but I still kind of have to give a name to what I’m talking about. </p>
<p>And 4/5 Q’s can make a big difference, especially because I’m self-studying this and need to know every question I can.</p>
<p>Hey, for the analysis. My conventional method of construction is to go through the entire essay, discussing its structure, while at the same time naming and analyzing other rhetorical strategies. The problems is, many people shoot for brevity, like 2 or 3 strategies of 1 paragraph each, whereas I almost file through every one, in chronological order, but otherwise disorganized. Can that hurt me?</p>
<p>come on guys, lets get this thread fired up. It’s better to discuss it now than the night before–really.</p>
<p>All right, I’ll start. Let’s do vocab, one word per post.</p>
<p>effrontery- boldness, audacity</p>
<p>buuuuuuuuuuuump</p>