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English III AP Summer Assignment
SY 2015-2016
Due: September 7th *
After five days, the assignment will no longer be accepted.
Course Goals
The goals and the requirements of the AP English Language and Composition course are significantly different
from those of a regular English course. As this is a college-level course, performance expectations are
appropriately high, and the workload is challenging. Students are expected to commit to a minimum of five
hours of course work per week outside of class. Often, this work involves long-term writing and reading
assignments, so effective time management is important. Summer reading and writing are encouraged to orient
students to the following objectives: annotation, accounting for purpose and context, and recognizing strategies
and tactics used in literature. In addition, most of our discussion during the 1st Six Weeks will refer back to this
book, so it is highly urged to read this book ahead of time.
Rhetorical Devices
A list of rhetorical devices has been included in this packet so that students may become familiar with the
terminology. It is highly recommended to study these terms throughout the summer.
Required Reading:
 In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Guidelines:
1. You will not receive credit for any form of plagiarized work. Be your own person and use your own
brain.
2. If you have questions over the summer, you can reach your teacher at the following email addresses:
GALENA PARK:
[email protected] [email protected]
3. Materials: You will need the following to complete this assignment
 Access to the internet (if you do not have access at home, you may use the public
library).
 A copy of In Cold Blood by Truman Capote – this can be purchased at a book store, used
or new, checked out from a library, or checked out from the school. Before the end of
May the book will be available in your Campus Library.
Grading Checklist:
The entire summer assignment is worth 2 major grades of extra credit. All extra credit grades will count for the
first six weeks and will be assessed prior to the end of the first grading period.
Major Grades:
 Analysis Essay on In Cold Blood
 Thematic Essay on In Cold Blood
*All assignments should be typed in MLA style. MLA style encompasses the following:
 12 point Times New Roman or Arial font.
 Double Spaced
 1” margins
 Appropriate header (name, course and date)
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
Appropriate page numbering (last name #)
Submission Guidelines:
- Cover page should have:
“Summer Reading”
Last Name, First Name
Class Period
AFTER YOU READ IN COLD BLOOD
1st MAJOR GRADE
Directions: Write a 250-300 word essay on each of the following Free Response Questions. This essay must be
typed in MLA format (12-point font, double spaced, Times New Roman). You will need to print and attach to
the back of your Summer Reading packet.
Free Response Question #1
The concept of the American Dream is central to Capote’s text.
Read the passage from the section “The Last to See Them Alive” from Capote’s In Cold Blood, starting from
“The master of River Valley Farm, Herbert William Clutter…” and ends several pages later with “…had small
reason to complain.”
Then, write a well-organized essay in which you analyze how Capote uses the Clutter family to represent the
rising middle-class in 1950’s America. Be certain to ground all of your assertions firmly in the text.
Do not merely summarize the passage.
Free Response Question #2
Carefully read the passage from “The Corner” section of the book, beginning with “But had Mr. Jones been
permitted to discourse,” and ending with, “the amateur analyst reached conclusions not dissimilar.” Then, write
a well-organized essay in which you evaluate the effectiveness of Capote’s including the report in his book. Be
certain to justify your stance with evidence from the text.
Do not merely summarize the plot.
2ND MAJOR GRADE
Directions: Write a 2-3 page argumentative essay, meaning that it should be logical, controlled and persuasive.
This essay must be typed in MLA format (12-point font, double spaced, Times New Roman).
Argumentative Essay
Write an essay that examines the extent to which the American Dream applies to each of the classes of
characters in the novel. Provide examples from both the text and an example from either history or current
events to support your argument.
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APPENDIX
Rhetorical Terms
Schemes
Parallelism
Isocolon
Antithesis
Zeugma
Anastrophe
Parenthesis
Ellipsis
Asyndeton
Polysyndeton
Alliteration
Anaphora
Epistrophe
Anadiplosis
Antimetabole
Chiasmus
Erotema
Hypophora
Epiplexis
Definitions
A figure in which words preserve their literal meaning, but are
placed in a significant arrangement of some kind.
Agreement in direction, tendency, or character; the state or
condition of being parallel.
A figure of speech in which parallelism is reinforced by members
that are of the same length. A well-known example of this is
Julius Caesar's "Veni, vidi, vici"
The placing of a sentence or one of its parts against another to
which it is opposed to form a balanced contrast of ideas, as in
“Give me liberty or give me death.”
The use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when
it is appropriate to only one of them or is appropriate to each but
in a different way, as in to wage war and peace.
Inversion of the usual order of words.
A qualifying, explanatory, or appositive word, phrase, clause, or
sentence that interrupts a syntactic construction without otherwise
affecting it,
The omission of one or more items from a construction
The omission of conjunctions, as in “He has provided the poor
with jobs, with opportunity, with self-respect.”
The use of a number of conjunctions in close succession.
The commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word
group either with the same consonant sound or sound group
Repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more
successive verses, clauses, or sentences.
The repetition of a word or words at the end of two or more
successive verses, clauses, or sentences.
Repetition in the first part of a clause or sentence of a prominent
word from the latter part of the preceding clause or sentence,
usually with a change or extension of meaning.
A figure in which the same words or ideas are repeated in
transposed order.
A reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases,
as in “He went to the country, to the town went she.”
The rhetorical question. To affirm or deny a point strongly by
asking it as a question.
Figure of reasoning in which one or more questions is/are asked
and then answered, often at length, by one and the same speaker;
raising and responding to one's own question(s).
Asking questions in order to chide, to express grief, or to inveigh.
A kind of rhetorical question.
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Tropes
Metaphor
Simile
Synecdoche
Metonymy
Antonomasia (Periphrasis)
Personification
A figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to
something to which it is not literally applicable in order to
suggest a resemblance.
A figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly
compared.
A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the
whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the
special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
A figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one
object or concept for that of another to which it is related, or of
which it is a part.
Ex: ‘count heads’ for ‘count people’
The identification of a person by an epithet or appellative that is
not the person's name, as his lordship.
The attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate
objects or abstract notions, esp. as a rhetorical figure.
Is the use of a word as if it were a member of a different word
class (part of speech); typically, the use of a noun as if it were a
verb.
Understatement, esp. that in which an affirmative is expressed by
the negative of its contrary, as in “not bad at all.”
The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its
literal meaning
A figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous,
seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness”
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or
absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Anthimeria
Litotes
Irony
Oxymoron
Paradox
Phrases
Appositive Phrases
Participial Phrases
Absolute Phrases
Use of a word to mean something other than its ordinary meaning
A phrase is a group of related words that does not include a
subject and verb
An appositive is a noun or pronoun -- often with modifiers -- set
beside another noun or pronoun to explain or identify it.
Present participles, verbs ending in -ing, and past participles,
verbs that end in -ed (for regular verbs) or other forms, are
combined with complements and modifiers and become part of
important phrasal structures. Participial phrases always act as
adjectives.
Absolute phrases do not directly connect to or modify any
specific word in the rest of the sentence; instead, they modify the
entire sentence, adding information.
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