04.10 Practice AP Language Essay Prompt - Florida Virtual High School AP ENGLISH 1001420

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Your Assignment For the assignment, you will respond to question 2 on the 2011 AP Language and Composition Exam (on page 10 of the exam). Review the general course rubric to understand how your essa... y will be scored. Note: We want to prepare you for the time constraints of the AP Exam. Please allow yourself no more than 40 minutes to read and respond to this AP prompt. Florence Kelly delivered a speech at the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Philadelphia in 1905. Through her speech, she argues that there needs to be child labor laws to prevent children from working all through the night, that it is morally and economically wrong to make children work without the child labor laws, and until the mothers and teachers are brought into the picture, nothing will change. Kelly uses rhetorical devices such as diction, rhetorical questions, and indirect metaphors to prove her points throughout her speech. Kelly first uses diction to show that child labor is morally wrong. In lines 18-22, she said “Tonight while w [Show More]

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