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Last-Minute AP Test Prep

Last-Minute AP Test Prep. Analyzing Syntax + Free Response Prompts. Analyzing Syntax. Consider this passage:

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Last-Minute AP Test Prep

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  1. Last-Minute AP Test Prep Analyzing Syntax + Free Response Prompts

  2. Analyzing Syntax • Consider this passage: Now, the use of culture is that it helps us, by means of its spiritual standard of perfection, to regard wealth but as machinery, and not only to say as a matter of words that we regard wealth but as machinery, but really to perceive and feel that it is so. If it were not for this purging effect wrought upon our minds by culture, the whole world, the future as well as the present, would inevitably belong to the Philistines • Matthew Arnold, “Sweetness and Light” Culture and Anarchy • Analyze: 1. Put the first sentence into your own words. How does the sentence’s complexity add to its impact? 2. Where are the most important words in the second sentence of this passage-at the beginning or at the end? What effect does this have on the reader?

  3. Analyzing Syntax 1. Culture helps us, because of its high standards, to fully understand and accept the fact that wealth is an unworthy goal. The complexity of Arnold’s sentence intensifies the tone of seriousness, alerting the readers to the highly formal language of the passage. 2. The words that complete the meaning of the second sentence are at the end of the sentence. Sentences that delay closure until the end (the period) of the sentence are called periodic sentences. (Note: the opposite is a loose sentence). Periodic sentences carry high tension and interest: the reader must wait until the end of the sentence to understand the meaning of the sentence. Periodic sentences are used frequently in prose and are often very complex. This sentence withholds syntactic closure, increasing the tension of the sentence and keeping the reader’s attention until the meaning is fully disclosed.

  4. QUICK Thesis/Plan • Prompt: Choose a novel or play that depicts a conflict between a parent (or a parental figure) and a son or daughter. Write an essay in which you analyze the sources of the conflict and explain how the conflict contributes to the meaning of the work.

  5. QUICK Thesis/Plan • Many writers use a country setting to establish values within a work of literature. For example, the country may be a place of virtue and peace or one of primitivism and ignorance. Choose a novel or play in which such a setting plays a significant role. Then write an essay in which you analyze how the country setting functions in the work as a whole. • What if this was changed to “city setting”?

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