AP English Language & Composition: Tone Vocabulary and Sentence Pattern List
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Use this handout as a guide to keep track of which words and stylistic sentence patterns (types and
schemes) to study.
Vocabulary:
 Study ten words per week to be tested on Fridays.
 Students will be expected to know definitions, synonyms, and how to use the vocabulary words to complete
sentences.
 For homework, students are to write down each definition that matches each part of speech. Do not use a form of
the vocabulary word to define the word.
 For homework, use a reputable thesaurus to find two synonyms for each vocabulary word.
Stylistic Sentence Patterns:
 Study a sentence pattern per week to be tested on Fridays.
 Students will be expected to identify sentences that follow a certain pattern.
 For homework, students are to incorporate the vocabulary words in the specific sentence patterns for the week.
Please:
o Follow the sentence patterns as indicated;
o Provide sufficient context clues;
o Make sure the sentences are logical;
o Avoid comma splices, fragments, fused sentences, subject-verb agreement errors, or other grammatical
errors.
Rubric:
 Assignment is worth 50 points per check
 The following points will be deducted if you lack…
o (-1.5 points) a part of speech for a word when it has several, multiple definitions for a word when it
has several according to each part of speech, synonyms for a word according to each part of speech,
and a sentence per word in the specified structure(s) for the week.
 The following points will be deducted if you…
o (-1 point) format your paper incorrectly, by writing on the back of the page, by not writing in black
or dark blue pen, or by not labeling each part of each entry;
o (-.5 point) do not follow sentence pattern indicated, incorrectly write a sentence in the grammatical
structure, write a sentence does not make sense, write a common splice, a fragment, a run on, a
subject-verb agreement error, or any other grammatical error, or convert the word to a part of
speech that is incorrect.
Week 6: Sentence Pattern—Periodic and Parenthesis
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Facetious
Flippant
Foreboding
Frivolous
Fervent
Genial
Glib
Histrionic
Haughty
Incredulous
Week 7: Sentence Pattern—Parallel/Balanced
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Indignant
Inflammatory
Irreverent
Idiosyncratic
Jovial
Judicious
Laudatory
Lugubrious
Livid
Malicious
Week 8: Sentence Pattern—Inversion/Anastrophe
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Maudlin
Morose
Mocking
Melancholic
Nostalgic
Obsequious
Ominous
Patronizing
Pedantic
Pensive
Week 9: Sentence Patterns—Asyndeton and Polysyndeton
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Petulant
Poignant
Pompous
Pretentious
Provocative
Passive
Quizzical
Quixotic
Ribald
Ridiculing
Week 10: Sentence Patterns—Anaphora and Epistrophe
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Sanguine
Sardonic
Self-Deprecating
Strident
Terse
Speculative
Vituperative
Whimsical
Wry
Wistful