Essential Terms
- Ethos, Logos, Pathos, Kairos. What is each of these appeals? How might they be used in a text?
- Tone Words. Use this resource to review all the different words we can use to identify an author's "tone."
- Complete list of rhetorical devices/terms. Test your knowledge of ALL the words that you might see on the AP Lang test with this exhaustive PDF of terms and definitions.
Style + Language
- Suggested Ways to Introduce Quotations. Use this resource to see interesting, non-formulaic ways to introduce quotations in your essays.
- Power Verbs. Using these verbs will help you to avoid saying, "The author argues" or "The author states" over and over again. They are high-frequency words that can make your writing stand apart from the crowd!
- Verbs in AP Academic Discourse. These are high-frequence verbs that we often see in AP-level writing. You should familiarize yourself with what each of them means.
Rhetorical Analysis
- SOAPSTone Graphic Organizer. Use this organizer to understand/analyze any rhetoric you read in this class.
- How to Write a Rhetorical Précis._ This packet includes a graphic organizer with sentence by sentence instructions for writing a rhetorical précis, as well as a model based on MLK Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. Use this to summarize any AP text you read and want to analyze. This can also help you to create solid introduction paragraphs that, although formulaic, will help you get all your ideas out.