Essay: AP Composition and Language

The AP Composition and Language is a way for colleges to evaluate your ability to handle college-level writing. Also, the exam gives an overview of how prepared you are for college. The exam consists of two major sections: multiple choice, and free-response. The multiple choice section includes fifty-five questions relating to four reading passages. The free-response gives you three essay topics, and you have to write an essay based on each topic. The exam is like reading comprehension, rhetorically analyze pieces, synthesize multiple texts, and create arguments. On the free-response section, the college board is testing your analytical writing skills.
Invisible Man, written by Ralph Ellison, is an novel, where the story takes place in a black college in Harlem, NY in the 1930s. It is the story of a black man, who is from the South, that fails to understand racism. He’s trying to succeed in a racially divided society. For his education, the man attends college, but gets expelled for standing up in front of a white male, and showing him what real “Black life” is.. Then, he moves to Harlem, and becomes an speaker for the Communist Party. As a speaker, he is threatened, but commended too. Ras used violence to prevent/fight the society, but Brothehood wanted to find a peaceful solution. The structural viewpoint in the story is black against white.
2 / 4
Every year, there are many novels, or plays, that are most likely to show up on the AP Composition and Language exam. Statistics show that, “Each year, the 3rd FRQ is different, and the CollegeBoard supplies a list of suggested books to reference for your essay.” The Invisble Man is a combination of complex literary work, which portrays racism, leadership, and there is a plethora of rhetorical writings, such as speeches, dreams, rhymes, etc. The narrator shows the changes of tone as the book progresses, like going from dynamic to confusing. This novel is a representation of the experience, what the societies had to live through. In the beginning of book, the narrator creates an image of the society he’s living in, then in the middle of the book, the narrator shows how he was treated/experience, basically his worst days in New York, and at the end of the book, the narrator emphasized the meaninglessness of existence, no matter what race or religion, someone is born into. This novel is a combination of experiences through the times, when blacks and whites were against each other, because they were of different race, religion or color. The Invisible Man deserves to be in the AP exam, because students will be able to portray themes, learn about the character that takes time to learn basic skills, and the extensive use of rhetorical language.
Some books are characterized/judged by if it is literary merit, basically, it means that the story is broader, it abstracts themes, which are portrayed in beautiful ways, by using rhetorical devices, syntax, characters, experience, etc. The story in this novel is a great representation of the events, which occurred at the time, it involved numerous characters, that were shown as predictably realistic, because of the way they acted in the book. The style in the book was a great factor in telling the story, because the tone and the mood changes showed how dramatic, confused, and important things were. It created imagery, which displayed experiences’, that the narrator was trying to persuade. The story shadowed the themes portrayed in the novel, which
3 / 4
are race, identity, power, ambition, etc. There weren’t any regrets, while reading this book, because the audience/reader felt like they were with the man, which he was experiencing many situations.
Every year, many students take the AP Compostion and Language exam, which examines your preparation for college-level writing, and analyzing pieces & answering questions from the text, that is the multiple choice section, it also gives you many opportunities to display your writing skills in the free-response section. There is a list of numerous books, that show up on the AP exam, which includes the novel, The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, it has appeared twenty-six times on the AP exam. This novel is an overview of a black man’s experiences through the country’s rough times, when blacks were against whites, and vice versa. The storyline, characters, and language created an amazing way to tell this man’s story, who is still trying to learn everyday skills, and facing racism.