6/14/2023 0 Comments Ap lang practice multiple choiceThe major test-prep publishers (Kaplan, Princeton Review, Barron’s, McGraw Hill) have not caught onto this, however, and so they are still including these old-style questions in their AP English Comp books. (You may, however, see questions testing less technical terms, e.g., abstract language.)īut please note: if you are studying from exams administered before 2014, you may indeed see these terms.įor a description of the College Board’s revised stance on rhetorical terminology, see the 2014 Course Description, p. So you know those questions that directly ask you to identify whether a particular set of lines includes, for example, oxymoron, antithesis, or syncope? They’re gone. To sum up: since 2014, the AP English Language and Composition exam has NOT included questions directly testing knowledge of high-level rhetorical figures. I realized after posting yesterday that I had buried the most practical information in the middle of what became a much longer-than-intended meditation/diatribe, so I’m re-posting the key information here in condensed form.
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