This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Test Prep > Ap > Ap English Language – Quiz 16 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ap English Language Quiz 16 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Repetition of a particular word at the beginning of successive clauses, sentences, paragraphs, etc. A) Metonymy. B) Polysyndeton. C) Asyndeton. D) Anaphora. E) Glossia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anaphora. 2. That is the best present I have ever received! A) Abstraction. B) Parallelism. C) Absolute. D) Parody. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Absolute. 3. What is 'allegory'? A) The expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence. B) The rhetorical substitution of a part for the whole. C) A statement of purpose, intent, or main idea in a literary work. D) The use of stylistic devices that reveal an author's attitude towards a subject. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence. 4. If a piece of evidence is described as irrelevant, it means: A) The source of the information is biased or untrustworthy. B) The information provided is factually incorrect. C) There is not enough evidence to support the claim fully. D) The evidence does not relate logically to the specific claim it is meant to support. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The evidence does not relate logically to the specific claim it is meant to support. 5. Which of these is the best definition of tone? A) How the speaker wants the audience to feel. B) A speaker's attitude toward the subject conveyed by the speaker's stylistic and rhetorical choices. C) The use of emotions to persuade an audience. D) The volume of a speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A speaker's attitude toward the subject conveyed by the speaker's stylistic and rhetorical choices. 6. Which revision MOST improves clarity? A) Repeat the main idea. B) Delete the topic sentence. C) Replace "thing" with "factor". D) Add an exclamation point. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Replace "thing" with "factor". 7. In the synthesis essay, what are students required to do with the provided sources? A) Summarize each source separately. B) Only use one source. C) Ignore them. D) Integrate information from at least three sources to support their argument. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Integrate information from at least three sources to support their argument. 8. Which revision MOST improves an argument's precision? A) Adding appeals to emotions. B) Introducing a rhetorical question. C) Repeating the thesis. D) Replacing "many people think" with "critics argue". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Replacing "many people think" with "critics argue". 9. Which of the following best expresses the function of the third paragraph (lines 25-41)? A) It supports the writer's statements in the second paragraph. B) It expresses challenges in order to refute them in the fourth paragraph. C) Its somber tone provides a transition to the serious subject that follows. D) Its diverting subject matter creates a suspenseful tension. E) It discusses a topic inverse to the paragraphs that come before it. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) It discusses a topic inverse to the paragraphs that come before it. 10. Which rhetorical device is illustrated by the example:'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ..... '? A) Diction. B) Enumeratio. C) Hyperbole. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Juxtaposition. 11. The narrator is not within the story and presents the thoughts, emotions, and actions of any or all characters. A) Third Person Narrator. B) Third Person Limited. C) First Person Narrator. D) Third Person Omniscient. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Third Person Omniscient. 12. Developing an essay that aims to depict a scene, person, thing or idea. A) Description. B) Figurative language. C) Diction. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Description. 13. Chose the device that matches the definition.A literary, historical, religious, or mythological reference in a literary work A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Anaphora. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 14. The sudden appearance of the commonplace in otherwise elevated matter or style. A) Asyndeton. B) Bathos. C) Chiasmus. D) Coherence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bathos. 15. Fill in the blank: ..... is a sentence that gives a command. A) Declarative sentence. B) Exclamatory sentence. C) Interrogative sentence. D) Imperative sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imperative sentence. 16. What do the last three passages of the multiple choice section of our exam test you over? A) Reading. B) Writing. C) Rhetorical devices. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Writing. 17. What does this appeal to?"I work 300 days a year and make over 1, 000, 000 dollars annually with 15 different businesses." A) Fakeos. B) Ethos. C) Logos. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 18. A writer MOST strengthens an argument by A) Introducing unrelated facts. B) Adding emotional language. C) Repeating the claim. D) Explaining how evidence supports the claim. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Explaining how evidence supports the claim. 19. What is a metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work called? A) Extended metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Extended metaphor. 20. PASSAGE 2The third sentence of the first paragraph advances the author's purpose by presenting characteristics and features that A) Describe England in the seventeenth century. B) Help define the idea presented in the previous sentence. C) Challenge John Donne's knowledge of the United States. D) Help justify the claim made in the first sentence of the paragraph. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Help define the idea presented in the previous sentence. 21. True or False:You should find the longest possible quotation to include in your writing to show you know what you're talking about. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 22. Express (a proposition, theory, etc.) in clear or definite terms. A) Rebuttal. B) Inversion. C) Parallelism. D) Enunciate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Enunciate. 23. What term refers to the consideration of style as the sum of the choices an author makes in blending diction, syntax, figurative language, and other literary devices, and also involves the classification of authors to a group and comparison of an author to similar authors? A) Voice. B) Theme. C) Tone. D) Style. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Style. 24. How does the author of the practice passage view McDonald's? A) Indifferently, focusing only on the food. B) As a connection to her Chinese upbringing. C) As a symbol of Western culture. D) Negatively, due to its fast-food nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) As a connection to her Chinese upbringing. 25. Speakers appeal to emotion to motivate their audience. A) Exigence. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. 26. A respectable, reliable source of evidence A) Genius. B) Authority. C) Doctor. D) Fact. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Authority. 27. What is the definition of 'Analogy'? A) A figure of speech that uses exaggeration. B) A word that imitates a sound. C) A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way. D) A statement that contradicts itself. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way. 28. Which rhetorical term is defined as:'The duplication, either exact or approximate, of any element of language, such as a sound word, phrase, clause, sentence, or grammatical pattern.' A) Repetition. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 29. Fill in the blank: ..... is intentional exaggeration to create an effect. A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Irony. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 30. In the first paragraph, the speaker introduces an argument that criticizes A) "emotions and beliefs" (sentence 1). B) "all that is great and lofty" (sentence 4). C) "noble effort" (sentence 4). D) "intellectual aloofness" (sentence 5). E) "the stern strife of living" (sentence 6). 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