Did we really have to write about a specific culture?
Okay good to know!
So if i didnt mention a culture would that greatly impact my essay score
Anyone know the approximate max score i could receive on the last prompt if i didn’t Address a specific community or culture kinda worried tbh cause i addressed mine globally
I don’t think the question asked for a specific community or culture, just one that you are familiar with.
I think the polite speech was asking for its applications in any social context. It was probably just the way that they worded the prompt, but AP Lang never specifically asks for examples from a certain viewpoint. Thankfully, Lang questions are quite open-ended and the graders are much more accepting than ACT graders are.
No it won’t; the questions will be posted, the answers follow in a couple of months.
The question said something about a familiar culture and something else, but it was pretty general in what it asked.
For a culture, I used victorian england and other british examples but it was completely accidental and therefore I did not mention any specific culture…
Honestly, I think College Board just had a huge laugh this year with the AP passages—but I’m not complaining! I normally average 55-60% on MC, but I think I did better on this one. All the passages were interesting. My favorite was the one about the girl, snail, communist mother one. Haha!
Synthesis: it was really my first one I wrote this year, but I honestly think I dd good on it. I managed to use an opposin source to support my thesis.
Rhetoric: I found myself analyzing syntax and diction—something I don’t normally do. I managed to pick out the ethos and logos in it. AND THEY LAUGHED AT ME FOR LEARNING HYPOPHORA—WHO’S LAUGHING NOW?!
Argument: The question was so strange to me. Mine was more of a satire than anything. I managed to include 1984 and used personal experience. I can’t remember my third point, but it was very well constructed.
Overall, I think I made a high 4/ low 5. Essays I think I made 7-8, 8-9, and 8. Definitely an exam I am proud of.
I had to take Statistics ten minutes later so my brain is fried…
The argumentative essay was easier than I thought it’d be, what with previous years having stuff about the relationship between certainty and doubt and the one about creativity. For this one I just wrote about how polite speech is typical to American society and how it creates a more welcoming atmosphere. I also got a bit patriotic at the end.
The rhetorical analysis was kinda hard because the passage was really easy so there wasn’t much I could pull out of it to talk about.
MC was harder than I thought it’d be, the ones giving me trouble were the 2 about the footnotes. Et al? What does that mean? And does a journal have volumes or issues? (Just Googled it…I got it wrong).
I’m still expecting a 5, though.
Yea I got et al wrong. I think it’s multiple authors. I also put volumes but think it’s issues. SMH.
Can someone restate the hypophora that was in the excerpt? I don’t remember seeing one. Lol
Lastly, I used high school as my “culture/community” do you guys think that’s valid? I made sure to write somewhere “in a community like that of a high school” so that they’d know I’m answering the prompt.
I doubt you can get more than a 5 if you didn’t answer the prompt, namely forgetting to cite a specific community.
@baller55 I think your high school is a valid community, I think that’s what I would have done if I had remembered that part.
I didn’t cite a specific community…unless the United States counts. My teacher said she’s expecting a 5 from me so I’ll be really disappointed if I don’t get one.
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@baller55 What essay was about “culture and community” on yours?
I believe the polite language question was asking the writer to choose a culture or community to frame such language in, and then use evidence (which can be from other places) to help support the claim. For example, I chose school, but I used politics and diplomatic relations to help describe how polite language assists in breaking a comfort threshold between people, and business to help describe how polite language shows respect in job interviews. I linked each of these examples back to their respective applications in a school setting - the “comfort threshold” and respect stuff clearly has applications in school as well.
That said, I think the prompt was horrendous.
(I also think that there were a couple MC questions that truly could have had multiple reasonably correct answers, but at the same time many were very straightforward.)
How long were you guys’ essays? Mine were all relatively short, but that’s just how I write. I keep my writing clear and concise.
Did anyone else get (calm and confidant) and (congratulatory) as answers?
@Spurs2014 Yes, I recall both.
@dsi411 Usually about 2-2.5 pages. I am a really slow writer though.