This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Test Prep > Ap > Ap English Language – Quiz 24 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ap English Language Quiz 24 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following is NOT a classroom rule? A) Be on time and in your seat busy with bellwork when the bell rings. B) Brings all needed materials to class. C) Pay attention and follow directions right away. D) Text my friends when the teacher is not looking. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Text my friends when the teacher is not looking. 2. What happens if a student receives a poor grade on an assignment? A) They cannot make corrections. B) They will have to redo the entire assignment. C) They will be given extra credit. D) They can make corrections for a better grade. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They can make corrections for a better grade. 3. Which rhetorical term refers to the emotional mood created by the entirety of a literary work? A) Aphorism. B) Clause. C) Atmosphere. D) Colloquialism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Atmosphere. 4. When you look up a word in the dictionary, you find its ..... A) Homonym. B) Acronym. C) Denotation. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Denotation. 5. True/False:Die Hard is a Christmas movie. A) True. B) False. C) I've never seen Die Hard. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 6. An exaggeration of overstatement A) Metaphor. B) Paradox. C) Irony. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 7. When an author groups two contradictory terms together. A) Irony. B) Paradox. C) Parallelism. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron. 8. A paradox made up of two seemingly contradictory words. A) Oxymoron. B) Irony. C) Hyperbole. D) Satire. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 9. When events turn out the opposite of what was expected; when what the characters and reader's think should happen, but does not happen. A) Situational Irony. B) Dramatic Irony. C) Irony. D) Verbal Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Situational Irony. 10. You have about 40 minutes to write each essay. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 11. What should you mark out when analyzing the options? A) Words that are repeated in the passage. B) Words that do and do not answer each part of the question. C) Words that are unrelated to the passage. D) Words that are difficult to understand. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Words that do and do not answer each part of the question. 12. Fill in the blank:The 'why' or 'what happens next' is more important than ..... or 'how it looks' when choosing cause and effect over other methods. A) 'who did it'. B) 'when it happened'. C) 'what it is'. D) 'where it is'. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 'what it is'. 13. How much is the Multiple Choice section worth? A) 55%. B) Ugh, Math!. C) Some %. D) 45%. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 45%. 14. What is 'extended metaphor'? A) Tone; instructional, designed to teach an ethical, moral, or religious lesson. B) Differs from a regular metaphor in that several comparisons similar in theme are being made. C) Ending a series of lines, phrases, clauses, or sentences with the same word or words. D) The literal meaning of a word, the dictionary definition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Differs from a regular metaphor in that several comparisons similar in theme are being made. 15. When two words, phrases, images, or ideas are placed close together or side by side for comparison or contrast, it is called: A) Oxymoron. B) Mood. C) Juxtaposition. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Juxtaposition. 16. When a writer uses an appeal to pathos, they are attempting to engage the audience's: A) Sense of logic and reasoning. B) Trust in the speaker's authority. C) Values, beliefs, and emotions. D) Understanding of complex historical timelines. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Values, beliefs, and emotions. 17. Which term describes a repeating symbol throughout a text? A) Paradox. B) Imagery. C) Epithet. D) Motif. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Motif. 18. A description of how something looks, feels, tastes, smells, or sounds. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 19. Which of the following best explains why critiquing the human element of texts is valuable? A) It helps you understand the emotional and ethical dimensions of communication. B) It is only necessary for fiction. C) It makes essays more difficult to write. D) It is not part of AP English Language and Composition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It helps you understand the emotional and ethical dimensions of communication. 20. PASSAGE 1It can be inferred that "the few" (paragraph 2) refers most specifically to A) Courtiers. B) Monarchs. C) Tyrants. D) Dissenters. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dissenters. 21. Which of these is NOT a rhetorical appeal? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Topos. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Topos. 22. There will be between ..... questions on the test. A) 50-55. B) 95-100. C) 5-10. D) 505-510. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 50-55. 23. True or False:Grammar and mechanics play a huge role in the score you receive on a timed writing. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 24. Deriding the status quo is A) Adhering to gender roles. B) Parodying a obscure essay. C) Harmfully impacting a utilitarian proposal. D) Mocking the current status of affairs. E) Speaking out against ones detractors. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mocking the current status of affairs. 25. Which word accurately describes the son's tone in the following dialogue? Father:We are going to Disney World! Son:Yay!!!! A) Ecstatic. B) Irritated. C) Annoyed. D) Uninterested. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ecstatic. 26. What is the primary claim Brown makes in this passage, and what evidence supports it? A) Claim:Vulnerability is weakness; Evidence:People avoid it to stay strong. B) Claim:Creativity requires isolation; Evidence:Studies of personal experiences. C) Claim:Vulnerability is courage; Evidence:Interviews with wholehearted people. D) Claim:Joy is impossible to achieve; Evidence:Research shows shields block it. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Claim:Vulnerability is courage; Evidence:Interviews with wholehearted people. 27. Fill in the blank: ..... is an appeal to reason or logic. A) Kairos. B) Pathos. C) Ethos. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Logos. 28. At the end of the semester, I will take the AP English ..... Language exam and NOT an exam created by Mr. Ray A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 29. What is 'analogy'? A) An extended comparison between two things/instances/people etc. that share some similarity to make a point. B) A reference, explicit or implicit, to something in previous literature or history. C) The use of stylistic devices that reveal an author's attitude towards a subject. D) The expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An extended comparison between two things/instances/people etc. that share some similarity to make a point. 30. Attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or an idea. A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Allusion. 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