anyone know percents for a 3,4,5
You don’t need rhetorical devices like apposition and referent…you don’t even need parallelism. Your claim should look something like: “The author conveys his attitudes/or whatever about ____ through demonstrating / appealing to his audience through”
ok what can you put in the spaces?
through demonstrating?
For example if you were given the Declaration of Independence
Jefferson conveys his distrusts and mental separation from the English crown through demonstrating the grievances he and other new Americans have suffered through. or
Jefferson … through conveying the anguish of Americans and appealing to their new sense of identity.
Then in your paragraph, you would analyze that list of grievances he gave and how it strengthened his argument. And how it ties back to something about humanity or what was going on at the moment.
Or in the second option, how he appealed to Americans’ new patriotism for their country… like when he said “we hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal” and how these specific lines appeal to Americans.
I need help with the argument essay. For support, is it like the SAT essay where we use a historical, life, and literary work? Is it a good idea to make examples up (fake book/person)?
What’s a good multiple choice score? The 2012/2013 tests seem too easy…
Does anyone have some good literary works or historical events to reference for the argumentative essays (ones that can be applied to a lot of different prompts)?
Around 45 MC correct and 7 on all essays. I think with that you can get a 5.
@zeppelins so it’s not a good idea to say for example: In this passage, the author appeals to the audience’s ethos in order to…?
@kgsoccer08 never… specify what exactly he is doing. ethos is not descriptive at all
@lionbeast - Thanks! Hoping that I can score 47-48 on part one and get away with a 5 on an essay for a 5. After perusing this thread, I’m starting to feel very meh about part two…
I wonder how easy it is to bs examples for the argumentative essay compared to the SAT essay.
@zeppelins okay good to know. Thanks
I hope I do well… I earned a 30/55 on a Barron’s practice test today… Does anyone how much more difficult it is compared to the actual test? Everyone says Barron’s is harder, but that’s too vague for me.
^On the SAT Essay we can make up fake books, historical events and people for supporting evidence and get an extremely high score (I got an 11 with this). On the argument essay for AP lang, instead of using real literary works like Lord of the Flies and such for support, we are wondering if we can just make them up.
Hey, does anyone know how the cliffnotes practice exams compare to the actual Lang exam?
@leafasao @sscharter Any practice exam not produced directly by College Board is guaranteed to be wildly inaccurate.
i completely BS’d one of my argumentative essays about some psychological study conducted at harvard and my teacher believed me saying how she was impressed how i knew all these experminets and crap… i mean, after all, they can’t fact check everything right>?
There’s english teachers/professors grading so I don’t think they’d appreciate made up literature and history and most of them are aware that it’s made up, but you shouldn’t have to make stuff up to do well. The one last year was whether we should teach creativity in schools in a specific class and what creativity is, so I think anyone with a general knowledge of the public education system, etc could get through that without having to make stuff up. You could talk about the declining appreciation for art and music as the movement of STEM proceeds (I support STEM, but this is a possible stance), the way that students are often prescribed formulas rather than taught to solve their own pwoblems, the need for creativity in the general world in innovations in technology/art/whatever. They’re usually things people can use common knowledge to answer