AP Lang MC Notes

"In the _________ paragraph, the speaker characterizes themself as?"

Speaker

"The speaker's perspective is that of _________?"

Speaker

Analyze the person behind the text and what they value

Speaker

Firm and dependable especially in loyalty

Staunch

"The speaker's purpose in the passage is to?"

Purpose

Censure severely or angrily

Berate

The claim and the thesis are commonly known as the ___________ for an argument.

Building blocks

"Which of the following does the author attempt to answer in the passage?"

Claim/thesi

Take away a part from; diminish

Detract

Limited to or only caring about yourself and your own needs

Egocentric

Standing above others in quality or position

Eminent

Specify individually

Enumerate

Focused on Europe and the Europeans

Eurocentric

"Which of the following best describes the author's exigence in the passage?"

Exigence

Suggested though not directly expressed

Implicit

Unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training

Ineptitude

Concessions should be qualified using ___________.

Limiters

Few, little, in a restricted way, to some extent, somewhat, partially

Limiters

To use with your concession to "limit" its scope and importance

Limiters

Put in a lower or outer position and treated as unimportant

Marginalized

Clearly, mostly, in most cases, more importantly, strongly significantly, primarily

Maximizers

To use when supporting your own claim to maximize its impact on the audience

Maximizes

The evidence you incorporate should match your ___________ and ___________.

Message; purpose

"The argument used by the speaker demonstrates the truth that?"

Modifiers/qualifiers

"Which of the following best describes the removal of _________ (qualitative phrase)?"

Modifiers/qualifiers

"Which of the following is true of the position presented in the _________ paragraphs?"

Modifiers/qualifiers

The claim/thesis introduces a main ___________ that you will then provide ___________ and elaboration to support.

Point/argument; evidence

Bring about abruptly

Precipitate

Designed to prevent an anticipated situation or occurrence

Preemptive

"In the _________paragraph, the speaker does _________ primarily to?"

Purpose

What are the 5 W's?

Who, what, when, where, why

flaw

You might acknowledge a small truth or admit a _______ in your own stance.

An argument free from imperfection (complete and perfect) that is usually accompanied by terms like "always" or "never." These are typically avoided in argumentation, since they are difficult to support

Absolute arguments

"Based on the author's discussion of _________ the author most likely believes which of the following about his audience?"

Audience

"In the passage the author makes which assumptions about the audience?"

Audience

"The intended audience is most probably?"

Audience

Analyze who the intended audience is, characteristics of the audience, or the relationship between a speaker and an audience

Audience

"Throughout the passage, the author presents evidence to support which of the following overarching claims?"

Claim/thesis

"Which of the following best describes the thesis of the passage?"

Claim/thesis

Having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization

Cognizant

Characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation

Colloquial

Admitting the partial or whole truth associated with a point made in a counterargument

Concession

"The passage is most likely excerpted from...?"

Context

"This passage as a whole is best characterized by...?"

Context

Analyze what was going on in the world, what events impacted the message and purpose, and what the historical context is

Context

"In the _________ paragraph, the author supports his/her claim that _________ by?"

Contextualized evidence

"In the _________ sentence of the paragraph, the author mentions _________ to amplify his/her own point about the?

Contextualized evidence

"The author cites _________ to emphasize the?"

Contextualized evidence

"In the opening paragraph, the author contrasts _________ with his/her own position primarily to?"

Counterarguments

"The _________ paragraph as a whole implicitly challenges which of the following ideas?"

Counterarguments

"The functions of these sentences (?) is to?"

Counterarguments

Also known as the counter argument; the opposing point of view to one's thesis

Counterclaim

Make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance

Debase

Contextualized evidence is specific ___________ used to support your claim as evidence. It can come from ___________, current events, ___________ trends, etc.

Evidence; history; societal

Analyze what prompts the author to write the passage or what events directly impacted the message and purpose

Exigence

"The speaker's primary purpose in paragraph _________ is?"

Purpose

Analyze what the author's goal is or what they want the audience to do or learn

Purpose

Modifying, limiting, or restricting your argument by presenting exceptions

Qualified arguments

A form of evidence that is presented to contradict or nullify other evidence that has been presented by and adverse party

Rebuttal

Exposing human folly to ridicule

Satiric

"A certain phrase from the passage helps to identify the speaker as?"

Speaker