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Rhetora is an AI coach for AP Lang. It diagnoses your writing in 10 questions, drops you into a 4-week roadmap, and grades every thesis against the rubric — like a writing studio with one quiet arcade in the corner.
› Live grading
Watch a real rubric score itself.
We typed this rhetorical-analysis essay at a real student's pace — corrections and all. Below you'll see each AP-Lang rubric line resolve the way it does in the app, row by row, with the move that earned each point.
A · Thesis
Defensible claim — "syntax does ideological work"
1 / 1B · Evidence
Three specific moves: cadence, parallelism, closing line
4 / 4B · Commentary
Explains how each device functions, not just what it is
—C · Sophistication
Argues a tension: grief → recruitment
1 / 1
› Grading happens in < 30s in the real app.
Pick your gamemode.
One skill, one screen.
Thesis Mode
Take a defensible position in two sentences or fewer. Live feedback on stance, scope, and specificity.
Commentary Mode
Don’t restate — extend the implications. Trains the move from evidence to "so what".
Evidence Mode
Integrate, don’t drop. Quoting fluency, contextual setup, and citation rhythm.
Counterargument
Steelman the opposition. Rhetora trains the sophistication point you keep missing.
Introduction
Hook, frame, thesis — in 90 words. The opening that sets up the rest.
Conclusion Mode
Don’t end — extend. The kind of close that earns the sophistication point.
Line of Reasoning
Stitch claims together so the argument actually moves. Coherence, not just sequence.
Full Essay
40-minute timed sitting against a real prompt. Rubric report at the buzzer.
Four levels.
One way through.
Placement
10 questions across MCQ, thesis, commentary, conclusion. Sets your baseline AP score and surfaces your weakest rubric lines.
Roadmap
Four-week plan generated from your placement. Adapts every Sunday based on the tags Rhetora flagged that week.
Train
Drill the gamemodes that target your specific weaknesses. Every submission scored against the rubric in < 30s.
Simulate
Realistic 2h 15m exam sittings with pacing analytics and a full AI scoring report at the end.
› Before / after
A thesis is one rewrite away from defensible.
Scroll into view to watch the same student's opening line transform — the kind of edit Rhetora suggests on every essay submission.
In her essay, Smith talks about a lot of things related to memory and the past in a way that is interesting and shows that memory is important.
- no specific claim
- vague scope
- no defensibility
› Try one
A live MCQ, scored the way the exam scores you.
One stimulus, one question, full rationale on every choice — the same format you'll see across the 50 questions in the diagnostic.
// passage · douglass, 1845
In the passage, Frederick Douglass writes: "I was now, for the first time in my life, a witness to a horrible exhibition. The slave-driver, with his rope and lash, was the only living thing in the field, and he was busy in his work. His blows fell upon those who could neither defend themselves nor escape."
The cumulative effect of the syntax in the second and third sentences is to —
Rubric-grade feedback,
down to the sentence.
Lincoln’s address does not declare victory; it folds the victors into the same moral frame as the defeated. By insisting that "both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God," he refuses the easy partisan ending the moment seems to demand. The repetition is not ornament — it forces the listener to share a posture of humility before passing judgment on anyone.
The closing pivots inward. Where another speaker might have stopped at "with malice toward none," Lincoln keeps moving, naming the work the country still owes its widows, its orphans, and itself. The speech stops promising and starts assigning.
Defensible. Specific. Frames the analysis around a real interpretive choice — not a summary.
Two strong moves: the "same Bible" repetition reading and the inward pivot. Both extend the implication.
Earned, barely. Strengthen by tying the rhetorical posture to Lincoln’s own political risk in 1865.
You spent 11 minutes on the introduction. On the real exam, that’s a body paragraph you don’t write.
The arcade keeps score,
so you can too.
Built by writers who
actually took the exam.
I went from a 3 on my mock to a 5 in the spring sitting. The commentary mode is what did it — I finally stopped restating.
The rubric report is more specific than what I’d write as a teacher. I assign Rhetora as homework and use the time for live workshopping instead.
I beat the leaderboard for two weeks straight and accidentally got better at writing. That’s the trick, isn’t it.
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- ›10-question placement
- ›One gamemode (your choice)
- ›Basic rubric scoring
- ›Community leaderboard
Everything you need until exam day. Cancel after the rubric model gives you the score.
- ›All eight gamemodes
- ›Adaptive 4-week roadmap
- ›AI tutor (unlimited)
- ›Full rubric reports + rewrites
- ›Two timed simulations / month
For teachers running 30 to 300 students. Live class roster, assignment tags, and aggregate analytics.
- ›Everything in Plus
- ›Class roster & cohort analytics
- ›Assignment tags + due dates
- ›Direct grader review queue
- ›SSO & FERPA addendum
Questions writers
actually ask.
Is Rhetora aligned to the actual AP rubric?+
Yes. Every score maps to a specific row of the College Board rubric — Row A (thesis), Row B (evidence + commentary), Row C (sophistication). The model was trained on thousands of graded essays and audited by former AP readers.
Will it write essays for me?+
No, and we’ve tuned it specifically not to. Rhetora returns rewritten examples, not finished submissions. The whole point is that you do the writing.
How long does the placement take?+
Around 20 minutes. Five MCQs, one thesis, one commentary paragraph, and a conclusion. You can pause and resume at any point in the first 24 hours.
Does it work for AP Lit? Or just Lang?+
Lang only, on purpose. The rubric, the prompts, and the scoring are too different to share a model. AP Lit is on the roadmap for fall 2026.
Can my teacher see my submissions?+
Only if you’re on a Classroom plan and they invite you to a roster. Personal accounts are private — even from us, beyond what the model needs to grade you.
Better writing is a habit,
not a hack.
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