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Unit 5: Organization, Transitions, and Tone

Style: Reading

Explain exactly how a writer's denotations, connotations, descriptive words and precise terms reveal a perspective, and build that explanation into analysis.

Topic 5.7 · 13 min read

This lesson comes with the AP English Language and Composition plan

In this lesson

  1. 01Denotation, connotation, and the substitution test
  2. 02Descriptive words take a position
  3. 03Precision: exact words show exactly what the writer thinks
  4. 04From words to tone and style
  5. 05Worked examples
  6. 06Where students lose points
  7. 07On the exam

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