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Use readings, study, or experience. |\n| 1982 | A reading on happiness – summarize his reasons for his opinion and explain why you agree or not with his opinion | Analyze the strategies or devices (organization, diction, tone, detail) that make Gov. Stevenson’s Cat Veto argument effective. | Describe a place, conveying feeling through concrete and specific detail. |\n| 1983 | A quote on change-Select a change for the better that has occurred or that you want to occur; analyze its desirable and undesirable effects | Excerpt from Thomas Carlyle’s Past and Present – define Carlyle’s attitude toward work and analyze how he uses language to convince…. | Agree or disagree with the position in the passage on living in an era of language inflation by considering the ethical and social consequences of language inflation. |\n| 1984 | Explain the nature and importance of two or three means by which you keep track of time and discuss how these means reveal your person. (Hint given about “inner clocks.”) | Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Milton – two very short quotes on freedom – describe the concept of freedom in each; discuss the differences. | A passage on a boxing match between Benny Paret, a Cuban, and Emile Griffith – Analyze how diction, syntax, imagery, and tome produce an effect on the reader. |\n| 1985 | Contrast stylistic and rhetorical differences between two passages on the Soviet Launch of the first space satellite | Discuss the probable reasons for an anonymous writer’s additions and deletions and the ways in which those revisions change the effect of the paragraph. Two drafts that record the writer’s thoughts on how the experience of war affected his attitude toward language. | Defend a position or one or more issues raised in the passage about the state of television in the United States. |\n| 1986 | Explain how two passages by N. Scott Momaday and Dee Brown, which describe similar landscapes, reveal the differences in the authors’ purposes. Consider diction, syntax, imagery, and tone. | Choose one or more pairs of words from a list and discuss and elaborate on the distinctions between the paired words. Consider how, when, why, and by whom each word might be used. | Evaluate the truth of the assertion in the quotation that human nature wants patterns, standards, and structures of behavior. |\n| 1987 | Agree or disagree with E. M. Forster’s view that personal relations are more important than causes or patriotism. | Analyze how Zora Neale Hurston enriches our sense of her childhood world through her diction and manipulation of point of view. | Describe some major features of the language used in one specific group – occupational, ethnic, social, or age, etc. Indicate the purpose these features serve or what influences they reflect. |\n| 1988 | Evaluate Alexis De Tocqueville’s assertions about democracy and aristocracy and his assertion that democracy “throws [man] back forever upon himself alone.” | Analyze Frederick Douglass’ language, especially the figures of speech and syntax, to convey his states of mind upon escaping slavery and arriving in New York in 1838. | Pretend to contribute to a magazine or newspaper; write an article describing a place you know well that might be of interest to readers. Define the significance, use descriptive detail to make attitude clear. |\n| 1989 | Argue for or against the validity of the implied criticism of a c","cbCaikISZYoajHHq","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikISZYoajHHq","pdf",394908,"English","# Yearly AP Language Prompts\n## 1981 to 1986\n## 1987 to 1992\n## 1993 onward","[{\"question\":\"What kinds of skills do these AP Language and Composition prompts emphasize?\",\"answer\":\"They emphasize rhetorical analysis and writing that focuses on organization, point of view, diction, syntax, imagery, tone, and detail, often requiring writers to explain how those features create effects.\"},{\"question\":\"Do the prompts ask students to argue, analyze, or both?\",\"answer\":\"Yes. 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