AP LANG QUIZ 2

I am also other selves: a late starter, a casualty of the culture wars of the 1960s, an alienated adolescent sopping up pop culture and dreaming of escape, an American kid growing up in the 1950s, playing touch football and watching "I Love Lucy".

Appositive: "a late starter, a casualty of the culture wars of the 1960s, an alienated adolescent sopping up pop culture and dreaming of escape, an American kid growing up in the 1950s, playing touch football and watching "I Love Lucy"." Effect: Explains and clarifies what the authors means when they say "other selves."

The war America waged in Vietnam, the first to be witnessed day after day by television cameras, introduced the home front to nee tele - intimacy with death and destruction. - Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

Appositive: "the first to be witnessed day after day by television cameras" Word or Phrase details: "The war America waged in Vietnam"

The writer understands that the audience for this passage is very familiar with the structure of the solar system. Which of the following revisions should the writer make, adjusting punctuation as needed, to account for the audience's expertise?

C. In sentence 4, deleting "a red dwarf companion to the Sun"

In sentence 10 (reproduced below), the writer is considering deleting the underlined parenthetical text.And while the Sun may well have had a twin at some point (a 2017 study of the Perseus molecular cloud suggests that most stars like the Sun were formed with companions),most experts now agree that if Nemesis ever existed, it broke free of the solar system early in the Sun's history, long before there was life on Earth, and thus could not have figured in any extinctions.Should the writer keep or delete this text?

C. Keep it, because it provides direct support for the concession made earlier in the sentence.

The writer is working on a new version of the passage and wants to include an explicit statement of the passage's thesis.Which of the following would best serve as a thesis statement for the passage?

C. While the theory was initially promising, the existence of Nemesis (a supposed companion star to the Sun) and its effect on extinction events on Earth, is highly doubtful.

In sentence 7 (reproduced below) , the writer wants to provide another piece of relevant evidence to elaborate on the claim made in the previous sentence about how subsequent research seemed to confirm the Nemesis theory.And in 2003, when astronomers discovered a dwarf planet in the outer reaches of the solar system, far from the Sun, they were surprised.Which of the following versions of the underlined text would best accomplish this goal?

E. they concluded that its huge, elliptical orbit might well be attributable to the gravitational pull of an unseen twin

"'And what was so special about Hamburg? It wasn't that it paid well. It didn't. Or that the acoustics were fantastic. They weren't. Or that the audiences were savvy and appreciative They were anything but. It was the sheer amount of time the band was forced to play" (Chapter 2).

It emphasizes how their amount of time and practice was the greatest contribution to their success. antithesis

"He waddles when he walks. He doodles when he thinks. He mumbles when he talks, and when he makes his way down the halls of Skadden, Arps, conversations drop to a hush" (Chapter 5).

It emphasizes the effect of the action, which provides rhythm to the text. parallel construction

"What was required of Ratwatte was that he communicate, and communicate not just in the sense of issuing commands but also in the sense of encouraging and cajoling and calming and negotiating and sharing information in the clearest and most transparent manner possible" (Chapter 7).

It emphasizes the particular way people must talk in order to spread correct information. polysyndeton

My car is in the parking lot. It's an old blue station wagon with a dent in the fender.

My car, an old blue station wagon with a dent in the fender, is in the parking lot.

That call was from Bridget. She's the top student in my calculus class.

That call was from Bridget, the top student in my calculus class.

"He was learning market research. He was learning manufacturing. He was learning how to negotiate with imperious Yankees. He was learning how to plug himself into popular culture in order to understand new fashion trends" (Chapter 5).

The repetition emphasizes the steps the subject had to undergo in order to achieve his goal. anaphora

Publicly funded art is the most expensive art in the world.

fact

Vaping can lead to increased blood pressure, ling disease, and insulin resistance.

fact

Because violence on television is harmful to all strata of American Society, strict guidelines for permissible content should be enacted.

policy

Congress must pass effective legislation to ensure restoration and continued maintenance of all national parks to ensure that loss of biodiversity is less precipitous.

policy

The presence and availability of wildlife enriches human life.

value