When you read, analyse, or time write, annotating the text can be extremely helpful. As you will find out, that reading texts in AP Lang class will not be the easiest things to understand. Because the texts requires higher level of thinking , annotating is one of the important thing to do. By annotating your book, you can look back and see what was important. Annotating is helpful when you time write because you can easily go back and use the underlined sources as your evidence. So! what do we look for when we annotate? I will list things you need to consider when you annotate a text to make it simple and straight forward.
* think about the vocabulary lists. what kind of devices did the author used in order to convey his argument?
*what is the purpose, structure, mode and the approaches?
*what kind of support type did the author used? are they experience? facts? authority? or values?
*Is there Appeals? what kind of appeals? are hey motivational? emotional? need? or slogan?
*Is there logical fallacies? what kind of fallacies? ad hominem? false analogy? generalization? non sequitur? post hoc? slippery slope?
*Is there diction? what kind of a word choice did the author used to convey his tone?
*Is there Imagery? what kind of scene are you imagining?
*Is there detail? what kind of language did the author used to describe his details?
*Is there syntax? what kind? How did the author play with his sentence structure?
*Is there figurative language? Euphemism? metonymy? adage? apostrophe? metaphor? and how do they effect the texts?
*Do you see the repeated idea? is that the main argument?
*Is there important quote? what is the quote talking about and why are they important?
As you read my list, did you realize that you will not be able to annotate well if you do not know these vocabularies? I strongly suggest that you study and learn all the vocabularies in order to annotate them and use them. Also when you annotate, you have to remember that finding main idea is also important. Think about how the devices, tones, and the purpose relates to main idea.
Here is my example of how to annotate! I annotated the speech of Barack Obama's Audacity of Hope.
This was such a great text to annotate because Obama utilizes many rhetorical devices to persuade the American voters.
Here is another example of how to annotate!
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