AP English Essay

I’m working on a English question and need guidance to help me study.

BOOK: UP FROM SLAVERY BY BOOKER T. WASHINGTHON

Your Assignment

For this assignment, think about your author’s rhetorical situation, exigence, and purpose in writing your chosen text. Then, locate a memorable passage from your book, one of at least 300 words, which features rhetorical strategies used by the author to achieve this purpose. In searching for a passage, consider:

• Does the passage feature one or more rhetorical strategies that can be analyzed?
• Do these rhetorical strategies clearly help the author to achieve a specific purpose, effect, or message?
• Is the passage representative of the author’s style?

Then, in a well-written essay, analyze the rhetorical strategies the author uses to achieve his or her purpose, effect, or message.

Remember, structure is part of your strategy as a writer.

Make it a part of your plan! Look back at lessons Introduction to Argument, Structure as Rhetorical Strategy, and Crafting Purposeful Structure and plan how you can organize and develop your ideas for greatest impact and effectiveness before you begin writing.