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AP English Language and Composition Videos
AP English Language and Composition: Passage Drill Drill 1, Problem 2. What is the speaker's primary purpose in using onomatopoeia in line four?
Comprehension Videos 20 videos
AP® English Language and Composition: Comprehension Drill 1, Problem 1. The speaker would agree with all of the following statements except what?
AP English Language and Composition: Comprehension Drill 1, Problem 10. The metaphor used in lines 62 and 63 is best interpreted to mean which...
AP English Literature and Composition 1.9 Passage Drill 4. Lines 32-34 are best understood to mean what?
Document Based Question Videos 1 videos
AP® English Language and Composition: DBQ Drill 1, Problem 1. Read the following sources (including the introduction), then write an essay in...
Grammar, Syntax, and Conventions of Written English Videos 9 videos
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This video clears up the confusion between then and than once and for all. It explains when to use each one (one for time, one for comparison) and...
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Passage Drill Videos 153 videos
AP English Language and Composition: Passage Drill Drill 1, Problem 7. What is the principal rhetorical function of paragraphs one to three?
AP English Language and Composition: Passage Drill 1, Problem 8. The quotation marks in the third paragraph chiefly serve to what?
In this AP Language and Composition drill question, read the provided passage and infer information based upon footnote two. AP Language and Com...
Persona, Tone, and Point of View Videos 14 videos
AP® English Language and Composition: Persona, Tone, and Point of View Drill 1, Problem 1. What is the overall tone of the passage?
AP English Language and Composition: Persona, Tone, and Point of View Drill 1, Problem 2. In context, which of the following is the best inter...
AP English Language and Composition: Persona, Tone, and Point of View Drill 1, Problem 6. With which of the following statements is the speaker mos...
Purpose, Rhetoric, Style, and Organization Videos 41 videos
AP English Language and Composition 3.10 Passage Drill. Which of the following devices does the passage not include?
The author uses multiple sets of numbers in the first paragraph in order to show
AP® English Language and Composition: Purpose, Rhetoric, Style, and Organization Drill 1, Problem 1. The speaker cites all of the following as ben...
Reference Skills Videos 7 videos
AP® English Language and Composition: Reference Skills Drill 1, Problem 1. The word "piecemeal" is best interpreted to mean what?
The quotations in lines 30–31 ("as a result…history") and lines 51–53 ("White…got there") most share which of the following relationships?