Reading Strategies for AP Language

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Reading Strategies for AP Language

• Plus Answers for Multiple Choices

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Answer to Multiple Choice Questions

• 1. A 13. C
• 2. E 14. A
• 3. B 15. A
• 4. A 16. B
• 5. E 17. A
• 6. C 18. E
• 7. E 19. E
• 8. D 20. C
• 9. C 21. D
• 10. C 22. A
• 11. A 23. B
• 12. E 24. B

• 25. D 37. A 49. E
• 26. D 38. B
• 27. B 39. D (2001)
• 28. C 40. C
• 29. C 41. C
• 30. B 42. A
• 31. A 43. D
• 32. B 44. B
• 33. C 45. A
• 34. B 46. B
• 35. D 47. C
• 36. C 48. D

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Three approaches

• 1. Skip the passage and go straight to
  questions.
• 2. Read part of the passage to get central idea
  and then go to questions.
• 3. Skim passage and then go to questions.

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Test Construction

• Answer choices
• 1 throwaway answer
• 1 general or vague answernot right, but not
  completely wrong
• 2-3 where you must make a distinction
• DO NOT SKIP A QUESTION!!!!!

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Kinds of Question

• 1. Main idea
• 2. Purpose or function of passage, paragraph, or
  sentence
• 3. Line reference questions words in context,
  paraphrased idea, pronoun references, examples of
  what?
• 4. Who is the intended audience?
• 5. Tone 6. Paired (Ex. Angry and light-spirited)

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Rhetorical Vocabulary

• 1. analogy
• 2. antecedent
• 3. metaphor
• 4. anecdote
• 5. paradox
• 6. parallel structure
• 7. juxtaposition

• 8. overstatement
• 9. understatement
• 10. metaphor
• 11. literal, figurative
• 12. syntax
• 13. euphemism
• 14. contradiction
• 15.

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Tone words

• Tentative
• Prudent
• Fervent
• Emphatic
• Defensive
• Solemn(ity)
• Cynical (cynicism)
• Ardent
• Neutral

• Objective
• Nostalgic
• Somber
• Elegiac
• Prosaic
• Melancholic
• reverential