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Ap Language Terms Quiz 1 (60 MCQs)

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1. Type of argument where the line of reasoning from premise to conclusion is valid and true
2. When you say something and mean something different or the opposite of what you said.
3. An Aristotelian appeal to logic or facts.
4. A short story to illustrate a point or claim.
5. A personal experience is called
6. Opposite of modesty
7. Providing reasons for a conclusion based on the evidence given in the text.
8. The opposite of cynicism
9. The art of effective communication
10. What type of rhetorical device is used in:. "What point in the anti-slavery creed would you have me argue? On what branch of the subject do the people of this country need light?"
11. Example: "That joke is so old; it was written on stone tablets."
12. What is Anthropomorphism?
13. A regular pattern to the syllables of poetry
14. Define "Comic Relief"
15. Example: "Patience you must have, young Padawan." (Yoda's dialogue)
16. Persuading by appealing to the reader's emotions
17. Word or words that create a picture in the reader's mind. Usually involves the 5 senses.
18. Existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence; A summary of content of a book, article, or formal speech.
19. A situation once started will have the most extreme possible outcome
20. Usually the last sentence of the introduction
21. What is the purpose of AP Language?
22. What rhetorical device is used in: "We will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together"
23. Example: "We must all hang together, or we will surely hang separately."
24. The order in which ideas are presented.
25. Example: "The thunder grumbled angrily in the dark clouds."
26. "Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent." -Winston Churchill
27. The literal definition of a word
28. A ..... is a seemingly contradictory situation which is actually true
29. Example: "A giant leap for mankind."
30. Example: "He strutted like a rooster in a henhouse."
31. Given the prompt:Write an essay taking a position on the relationship between the AVID program and college success. Which of the following is a defensible thesis?
32. A reference to something famous or well known to the audience is called
33. What is a counter argument?
34. Art or literature characterized by an idealistic, perhaps unrealistic, view of people and the world
35. What is Description
36. Example: "The warm sun kissed my face as I walked through the garden."
37. If someone gives more information in their argument, that is an example of
38. Something that reveals a critical attitude towards some element of life to a humorous effect
39. When a word has two or more meanings and is used in a humorous way
40. "Her skin was so pale, and her hair so dark, they called her snow white" is an example of
41. The environment of ideas, attitudes, and emotions that swirl around a broad issue.
42. "She felt like a raft floating in the middle of an dark, endless ocean. Like her, the raft was was floating along, alone, worn out, and unable to reach a steady place in which to settle."
43. Writing that is not meant to be take literally.
44. Repetitive sentence structure that adds intensity and builds rhythm
45. Example: "She sells seashells by the seashore."
46. An author's stance on a position and the way he or she communicates that stance/position.
47. Example: "We need all hands on deck to finish this project."
48. "Do I love you because you're beautiful?Or are you beautiful because I love you?"
49. The atmosphere created by the literature and accomplished through diction and syntax. The setting and events can also be affect it.
50. Choose the response with 4 fallacies
51. An if-then sentence that consists of two parts:an anecdote and a consequent
52. Of, from, to, before
53. Juxtaposition of disparate elements
54. Example: "Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up."
55. Poetry that doesn't have meter or rhyme
56. "Passed away" instead of "died."
57. "Tell me pacifically what she said."
58. A figure of speech that compares two unlike things using the words "like" or "as" is the definition of
59. An exaggerated imitation of a serious work for humorous purposes. It borrows words or phrases from an original and pokes fun at it.
60. An imitation of a person, situation, or event that is intended to be humorous but that may also reveal a truth about that person, situation, or event.
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