Essay Prompts for Renaissance Readings
Ronna LeeThe Advanced Placement Language and Composition essay test requires students to complete a close reading of a textual excerpt and an analysis of the excerpt based upon rhetorical devices, stylistic technigues, or narrative techniques. The following essay prompts are designed to mirror the task required by the examination while utilizing Renaissance readings.
Table of Contents for Essay Prompts
- Suggestions for Writing the AP Language and Composition Essay
- Erasmus, In Praise of Folly
- Erasmus, In Praise of Folly
- Leon Battista Alberti, Advice
- Machiavelli, The Prince
- Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies
- Poggio Bracciolini, On Avarice
- Vergerius de Ingenuis Moribus, Concerning Liberal Studies
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