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Unit 9: Entering the Conversation

Style: Reading

Explain how word choice, comparisons, and sentence structure reveal a writer's attitude toward opposing views and shape the writer's credibility.

Topic 9.7 · 16 min read

This lesson comes with the AP English Language and Composition plan

In this lesson

  1. 01Words that characterize the other side
  2. 02Comparisons and irony aimed at an opposing view
  3. 03How sentence structure places the weight
  4. 04Qualifiers and the measured voice
  5. 05Worked examples
  6. 06Where students lose points
  7. 07On the exam

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