AP English Language and Composition Premium, 2023-2024: Comprehensive Review with 8 Practice Tests + an Online Timed Test Option

by George Ehrenhaft Ed. D.

Overview

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781506279336
Publisher:	Barrons Educational Services
Publication date:	08/02/2022
Series:	Barron's AP
Edition description:	Eleventh Edition
Pages:	396
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	14 - 17 Years

About the Author

About the Author
George Ehrenhaft, Ed.D. (Moraga, CA) 
George Ehrenhaft has been the author or co-author of AP English Literature, AP English Language, and other Barron’s titles on the SAT, the ACT. Ehrenhaft spent most of his career teaching English in Westchester County, New York, at Fox Lane and Mamaroneck High Schools.

About the Publisher
Many great things begin with a tiny spark, and for Manuel H. Barron that spark came from a mimeograph machine in the basement of his Brooklyn, NY, bookstore in the late 1930s. People from the community asked Mr. Barron for books to help their children study for the New York State Regents exams. After realizing there wasn't anything available, Mr. Barron created his own study guides.

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Table of Contents

How to Use This Book vii

Barron's Essential 5 x

Acknowledgments xii

1 Getting Acquainted with the Test 1

Structure of the Exam 1

Multiple-Choice Questions 2

Reading Techniques 4

How to Increase Your Reading Power 6

Answering the Questions 19

Essay Questions from Previous AP Exams 20

Sample Synthesis Essay Question 24

Sample Analytical Question 34

Sample Argumentative Question 36

How Essays Are Read and Evaluated 37

Interpreting Essay Scores 38

How to Score the Essays 39

Scoring Your Own Essays 40

2 Diagnostic Test 43

Introduction 43

Section I 47

Section II 66

Answer Key 75

Answer Explanations to Multiple-Choice Questions 76

Answers to Essay Questions 80

How to Score the Essays 82

Essay Evaluation Worksheet 83

Test Score Worksheet 84

3 Mastering Multiple-Choice Questions 85

Reading and Rhetoric 86

Writing Questions 95

Sample Passage and Writing Questions 96

4 Mastering Essay Questions 101

Steps for Writing the Perfect Essay 102

Writing the Synthesis Essay 103

How to Write a Synthesis Essay 107

Sample Synthesis Essay Question 117

Writing an Analytical Essay 128

Planning Your Analytical Essay 131

Writing an Argumentative Essay 133

Argumentative Essay Topics for Practice 135

Arranging Ideas 136

AP Essay Writing Style 137

Editing and Proofreading Essays 148

Sample Analytical Essays 187

Answer Key to Mini-Workouts 195

5 Practice Tests 201

Practice Test 1 205

Section I 205

Section II 224

Answer Key 233

Answer Explanations to Multiple-Choice Questions 234

Answers to Essay Questions 237

How to Score the Essays 238

Essay Evaluation Worksheet 240

Test Score Worksheet 241

Practice Test 2 245

Section I 245

Section II 262

Answer Key 272

Answer Explanations to Multiple-Choice Questions 273

Answers to Essay Questions 276

How to Score the Essays 278

Essay Evaluation Worksheet 279

Test Score Worksheet 280

Practice Test 3 283

Section I 283

Section II 301

Answer Key 311

Answer Explanations to Multiple-Choice Questions 312

Answers to Essay Questions 315

How to Score the Essays 317

Essay Evaluation Worksheet 319

Test Score Worksheet 320

Practise Test 4 323

Section I 323

Section II 343

Answer Key 355

Answer Explanations to Multiple-Choice Questions 356

Answers to Essay Questions 359

How to Score the Essays 361

Essay Evaluation Worksheet 362

Test Score Worksheet 363

Appendix 365

Glossary 369

Index 379