Not much to report from the AP Lang trenches today. Tuesday was designated as preparation day as AP Langers readied their verbal rhetorical analysis presentation.
A few reminders/hints/suggestions for tomorrow =
1. Purpose unifies every part of a rhetorical analysis. Find the purpose of the chapter and how it connects to the text as a whole.
2. Select a variety of rhetorical strategies. Authors do have the rhetorical triangle at the heart of a text; however, there are many more complicated strategies that subtly connect the reader to the purpose of the text. Begin to challenge yourself to find anaphora, hypophora, forms of irony, allusions, syntactical structures, enumeration, and the long list of available rhetorical strategies.
3. Give each strategy its time in the sun. While enumeration is a rhetorical technique in some of the summer reading texts, it should not be a technique for your presentation. Analyze each strategy thoroughly with examples and citations to validate your observations.
4. This is a verbal essay, which should have some type of hook and conclusion. Think about how you would engage the audience about the given chapter.
If you have any questions about the direction of your presentation, you know how to contact me. I can't wait to learn from all of you tomorrow!
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