Ap language multiple choice test strategy
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The document provides strategies for the AP Language multiple choice test, including annotating passages, controlling the passage, general guidelines, and advice for certain question types like pronoun antecedents, figures of speech, main idea, tone, footnotes, syntax, and attacking the questions. It emphasizes techniques like context clues, process of elimination, identifying question types, and understanding rhetorical devices and sentence structures.
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