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Unit 8: Style and Audience

Rhetorical Situation: Reading

Explain how a writer's comparisons, diction, syntax, and evidence fit a particular audience, and how word choice and tone win or lose that audience's trust.

Topic 8.1 · 17 min read

This lesson comes with the AP English Language and Composition plan

In this lesson

  1. 01A comparison works only if the audience owns the other half
  2. 02Diction and syntax decide how the writer is heard
  3. 03Words that show which side the writer is on
  4. 04Audiences are particular, mixed, and changing
  5. 05Worked examples
  6. 06Where students lose points
  7. 07On the exam

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