What happened to the funky AP Lang prompts?

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<p>Describe a place, conveying feeling through concrete and specific detail.</p>

<p>Describe some major features of the language used in one specific group – occupational, ethnic, social, or age, etc. Indicate the purpose these features serve or what influences they reflect.</p>

<p>Pretend to contribute to a magazine or newspaper;write an article describing a place you know well that might be of interest to readers. Define the significance, use descriptive detail to make attitude clear.</p>

<p>Vividly and concretely describe one person seen at two different times or in two different situations so readers understand the difference in your attitude, thus proving perceptions of people differ according to people’s attitudes and circumstances</p>

<p>These are just a few of the prompts that don't fit into the categories synthesis, rhetorical analysis, or argumentative essay categories. My Princeton Review book (2012) says there are only three essays, and they fit in the aforementioned categories. </p>

<p>Granted, the prompts were from the 80s and 90s. Are there still such essays today?</p>

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<p>^^^ Those has no relevance today. </p>

<p>The AP Lang exam used to test on knowledge of MLA format of writing… way old lmao.</p>

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<p>Didn’t the AP Lang exam have sentence correction questions too?</p>

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<p>^
Where did you see that?</p>

<p>I have seen nothing of the kind. The most out of place thing on the exam these days tends to be a single question asking you to interpret the source of a footnote, which is fairly common sense. (Is john the author name or the article name? hm…)</p>