Writing the AP English Essay by Barbara Murphy & Estelle M. Rankin

Author:Barbara Murphy & Estelle M. Rankin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Published: 2011-04-04T04:00:00+00:00

(You can find the answers to these questions in Appendix IV.)

Your warm-up exercises are now completed. You have reviewed and practiced with the basics of modes of discourse in Chapter 3, rhetorical strategies in Chapter 4, and rhetorical devices and techniques, and the elements of literary style in this chapter. You are now ready to step up to a full-fledged writing routine. It is important to keep in mind that you can always return to these warm-up activities and flex those writing muscles that can become stiff and flabby if not used regularly.

Your Rhetorical Keystone

MODES OF DISCOURSE (method a writer uses to have a conversation with a particular reader/audience)

Argument Description Exposition Narration

RHETORICAL STRATEGIES (plan for achieving a specific writing purpose)

Argument Cause/effect Contrast/comparison Definition synthesis

Description Division/classification Example Narration Process analysis

RHETORICAL DEVICES (tools and mechanisms the writer employs to develop the strategy)

The most used and referred to rhetorical devices and figures of speech include:

Alliteration

Allusion

Analogy

Antithesis

Apostrophe

Epithet

Hyperbole

Metaphor

Metonymy/Synecdoche

Onomatopoeia

Oxymoron

Parenthesis

Parallelism

Personification

Rhetorical question

Simile

Understatement/Litotes

RHETORICAL TECHNIQUES (how the author uses rhetorical devices)

These choices revolve around the following:

Attribution Diction Organization Point of view Syntax Tone/attitude

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