Reddit reviews 5 Steps to a 5 500 AP English Language Questions to Know by Test Day (5 Steps to a 5 on the Advanced Placement Examinations Series)

This site provides some awesome short passages that you can use with the students for analysis of style and rhetorical devices. What I do is teach/reteach them a bunch of the simple devices in the first week (simile, metaphor, alliteration, etc.) and we do one of these analysis passages every Tuesday night for homework before discussing it Wed. in class. As we move through the year, I add more devices to their bank and their analysis increases. Make sure they're also able to answer why authors might use it, not just what they use.

Another thing I like to do is use the multiple choice practice sections in this book and give them one on Monday mornings. The sections are 10 questions, so I give them 10 minutes. When I have them do practice sections, I ask them to highlight words they don't know in the questions/answers, and then I utilize their lists to help drive my instruction.

I'm now entering my 4th year of teaching this class, so I'm finally feeling comfortable with everything that's required of it (my scores don't reflect that, but that's another story for another time). Feel free to message me at anytime!