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Unit 8: Style and Audience

Style: Reading

Describe a style from its word choice, syntax, and conventions, explain how it shapes readers' view of the writer, and read irony, modifiers, and asides precisely.

Topic 8.7 · 15 min read

This lesson comes with the AP English Language and Composition plan

In this lesson

  1. 01Style is the mix
  2. 02Clauses show how the writer ranks ideas
  3. 03Style shapes the writer the audience sees
  4. 04Irony: when the words and the meaning part ways
  5. 05Modifiers and asides: reading the small choices
  6. 06Worked examples
  7. 07Where students lose points
  8. 08On the exam

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