What?! Strange to hear you reading Shakespeare. My AP English Language and Composition class focuses on American literature and thus we have read works such as The Crucible by Arthur Miller as well as Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and soon to be The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. And synthesis prompts are basically persuasive essays with the assistance of documents. They differentiate themselves from history DBQs (Document Based Questions) in that only three out of six or seven documents have to used. You will inevitably get to this type of writing as it composed 1/3 of the Section II score on the AP exam.