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Summer Reading Assignment
Ms. D. Brown G-105
([email protected])
I am glad you have chosen to take AP English Language and Composition during your junior year. The
course is useful in preparing for college as it requires critical reading and writing skills necessary for
success in any college class in any major.
Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can
2013 Edition
Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion—Jay Heinrichs
This is a wonderful book, and Jay Heinrichs is an amazing narrator/writer/debater. However, for the
instructional purposes of AP English Language and Composition, I have chosen specific chapters for your
assignment. Please read the chapters I chose very carefully. Answer the questions and take notes on
these chapters. We will use these ideas, examples, and concepts throughout the year. It is highly
recommended that you purchase and have accessible your own soft or hard copy to begin the 20172018 school year.
On the first days of school, you will prepare (in class) and present a pop culture project using
what you have learned from the book Thank You for Arguing. You may work in partners on this project
if this pairing interests you.
Study Guide Questions Directions: Please answer questions fully using complete sentences. Submit
your written responses to google classroom prior to the first day of school.
AP Summer Reading google classroom code: wwafn4 (create your account)
Chapter 4—Soften Them Up
1)
2)
3)
4)
What is argument by logic (logos)?
What is argument by character (ethos)?
What is argument by emotion (pathos)?
Why is concession the most powerful tool
of logos?
5) How does “align[ing] yourself with your
listener’s pathos” help in an argument
(44)?
6) Pathos aims to do what?
Chapter 5—Get Them to Like You
7) Explain decorum:
8) Decorum follows whose rules?
9) Why must you change your decorum
based on your audience’s expectations?
10) Why is Eminem’s 8 Mile a great example
for this chapter?
Chapter 6—Make Them Listen
11) Identify and define the “3 essential
qualities of persuasive ethos” (56).
12) What is Lincoln decorum?
Chapter 9—Control the Mood
13) According to Aristotle, where do emotions
come from? Is this an accurate statement?
Why?
14) Why is a “detailed narrative” the best way
to change the mood of your audience
(89)?
15) Explain the statement: “When you argue
emotionally, speak simply” (83).
16) Why is sympathy more effective than
humor at persuading someone?
17) Discuss the use of the following in an
argument:
a. Anger
b. Patriotism
c. Emulation
18) What is unannounced emotion?
AP Language and Composition
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Summer Reading Assignment
Ms. D. Brown G-105
([email protected])
Chapter 13—Control the Argument
19)
20)
21)
22)
23)
24)
Create your own syllogism.
What is an enthymeme?
Create your own enthymeme.
Explain inductive logic.
Explain deductive logic.
What key word easily identifies the proof
in an argument?
25) Identify and give an example of the
following:
a. Fact
b. Comparison
c. Story (Anecdote)
Chapter 14—Spot Fallacies
26) What are the 4 questions that can help you
determine if there is a fallacy in an
argument? How can you use these in
everyday life?
27) What are the 3 identifiers associated with
logical fallacies?
28) Explain The False Comparison and create
your own example.
29) Explain The Bad Example and create your
own example of a hasty generalization.
30) Explain Ignorance of Proof and create an
example.
31) Explain the Tautology and create your
own example.
32) Explain the following devices and create
your own example for each:
a. Many Question
b. Complex Cause
c. False Dilemma
d. The Red Herring
e. Straw Man
f. Slippery Slope
Chapter 20—Get Instant Cleverness
33) What are “schemes” (209)?
34) What is metonymy and synecdoche?
35) Go online and find an impressive example
of metonymy and synecdoche (document
the site).
36) What is chiasmus?
37) Go online and find an impressive example
of chiasmus (document the site).
38) What is antithesis?
39) Go online and find an impressive example
of antithesis (document the site).
40) What is a litotes?
41) Go online and find an impressive
example of litotes (document the site).
42) Explain “verbing” (221-223).
Chapter 23—Give a Persuasive Talk (same issue
with writing an argument)
43) Define each of the levels of persuasive
organization
a. Introduction
b. Narration
c. Division
d. Proof
e. Refutation
f. Conclusion
44) Explain each for diction, style
a. Virtue 1
b. Virtue 2
c. Virtue 3
d. Virtue 4
e. Virtue 5
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AP Language and Composition
Summer Reading Assignment
Ms. D. Brown G-105
([email protected])