This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Test Prep > Ap > Ap English Language – Quiz 11 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ap English Language Quiz 11 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A sentence with two or more coordinate independent clauses, often joined by one or more conjunctions, is called a ..... A) Simple sentence. B) Interrogative sentence. C) Compound sentence. D) Complex sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Compound sentence. 2. To take advantage of someone or something, for one's own selfish purpose A) Exploit. B) Tyrannize. C) Misconception. D) Modest. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exploit. 3. Which screen reader is supported for Macintosh in Canvas? A) VoiceOver. B) ChromeVox. C) JAWS. D) NVDA. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) VoiceOver. 4. Which feature LEAST contributes to coherence? A) Consistent focus. B) Pedantic diction. C) Logical transitions. D) Clear organization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pedantic diction. 5. Which choice is LEAST effective in establishing credibility? A) Citing a credible source. B) Using absolute claims. C) Acknowledging limitations. D) Maintaining a formal tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Using absolute claims. 6. "The radiators put out lots of heat, too much, in fact, and old-fashioned sounds and smells came with it, exhalations of the matter that composes our own mortality, and reminiscent of the intimate gases we all diffuse." -Saul Bellow More Die of Heartbreak A) Periodic sentence. B) Compound sentence. C) Hortative sentence. D) Cumulative (loose) sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cumulative (loose) sentence. 7. The examples "Only batman fights crime" and "Batman only fights crime" differ in A) Rhetorical devices, semantics. B) Imagery, figurative language. C) Figurative language, syntax. D) Semantics, synecdoche. E) Syntax, sematics. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Syntax, sematics. 8. A manner of description in which the subject of the sentence has the actions done to it. A) Passive Voice. B) Objective Voice. C) Active Voice. D) Metonymic Voice. E) Secular Voice. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Passive Voice. 9. The exigence of a text refers to A) The reason or need that prompts the writer to speak. B) The intended audience. C) The tone or mood of the text. D) The background of the writer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The reason or need that prompts the writer to speak. 10. Within the context of a rhetorical situation, what does exigence mean? A) It is the part of a rhetorical situation that inspires, stimulates, provokes, or prompts writers or speakers to create a text or speech. B) It is the evidence that supports a writer's or speaker's main argument. C) It is the sense of urgency with which the writer or speaker makes his or her argument. D) It is the counterargument that the writer or speaker rebuts or refutes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is the part of a rhetorical situation that inspires, stimulates, provokes, or prompts writers or speakers to create a text or speech. 11. In what essay(s) is it appropriate to use personal information as textual evidence? A) Synthesis. B) Open-ended. C) Rhetorical analysis. D) Both a and b. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both a and b. 12. The implied meaning of a word or phrase A) Connotation. B) Synthesis. C) Ambiguity. D) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Connotation. 13. Fill in the blank:The word 'apprise' means ..... A) To confuse or mislead. B) To ignore or neglect. C) To inform or notify. D) To entertain or amuse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To inform or notify. 14. What is the primary function of alliteration in writing? A) To symbolize abstract ideas. B) To unify ideas and supply a musical sound. C) To refer indirectly to something presumably known. D) To juxtapose contrasting ideas intentionally. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To unify ideas and supply a musical sound. 15. What rhetorical device is being used?A boss tells his worker that they have been "let go" instead of saying "you're fired" A) Exposition. B) Eulogy. C) Epitaph. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Euphemism. 16. What is the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend? A) Metonymy. B) Euphemism. C) Oxymoron. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Euphemism. 17. What type of passages are most commonly used in the multiple-choice section of the AP English Language and Composition Exam? A) Nonfiction prose from various time periods. B) Poems. C) Science fiction stories. D) Personal letters. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nonfiction prose from various time periods. 18. An indirect reference to something (usually a literary text), with which the reader is supposed to be familiar. A) Alliteration. B) Aphorism. C) Antimetabole. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 19. What is the writer primarily talking about in the first paragraph of the passage? A) Her experiences versus others. B) The rise in popularity of fast food in China. C) The background of McDonald's. D) The composition of the filet-o-fish. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Her experiences versus others. 20. Which of the following is an example of 'Invective'? A) I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin. B) He's no fool. C) The White House declared a new policy. D) It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin. 21. Exaggerated statement or claim (a) A) Connotation. B) Idiom. C) Metaphor. D) A. hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A. hyperbole. 22. A word or phrase that links different ideas. A) Transition. B) Tone. C) Wit. D) Understatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Transition. 23. PASSAGE 2In the final sentence ( "But what ..... stand" ), the author indicates the relationship between the "two age-old American concepts" by employing A) A question mark to imply that one of the two concepts must be false. B) Quotation marks to highlight the origins of the two concepts. C) Subordination to suggest an inequality between the two concepts. D) Coordination to suggest a balance between the two concepts. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Coordination to suggest a balance between the two concepts. 24. What is the purpose of qualifying a claim? A) To generate numerical data or statistics. B) To provide insights into a problem or help to develop ideas or hypotheses. C) To suggest a course of action. D) To deny the validity of an opposing argument. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To provide insights into a problem or help to develop ideas or hypotheses. 25. If I am absent, I don't have to worry about the work I missed. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 26. Speakers appeal to reason by offering clear rational ideas and using specific details, examples, facts, statistics, or expert testimony to back them up. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 27. What should you look for when tracing the main idea of the passage? A) Repeating words. B) Mathematical equations. C) Historical references. D) Geographical locations. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repeating words. 28. Which method should you use if your audience needs to visualize or experience? A) Description. B) Narration. C) Cause and Effect. D) Definition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Description. 29. A sentence or group of sentences that directly expresses the author's opinion, purpose, meaning, or position. A) Thesis. B) Theme. C) Sarcasm. D) Synesthesia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thesis. 30. What is the central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life, usually unstated in fictional works but may be directly stated in nonfiction? A) Transition. B) Tone. C) Theme. D) Thesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesTest Prep QuizzesGrammar QuizzesAp English Language Quiz 1Ap English Language Quiz 2Ap English Language Quiz 3Ap English Language Quiz 4Ap English Language Quiz 5Ap English Language Quiz 6Ap English Language Quiz 7Ap English Language Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books