This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Test Prep > Ap > Ap Language Terms – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ap Language Terms Quiz 2 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Example: "He strutted like a rooster in a henhouse." A) Pathetic Fallacy. B) Simile. C) Synecdoche. D) Malapropism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 2. 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? A) Due to the support and strategies provided to them, AVID graduates are more likely to succeed in college. B) The AVID program influences college success. C) AVID provides support and teaches college readiness skills. D) Participation in the AVID program has both positive and negative aspects. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Due to the support and strategies provided to them, AVID graduates are more likely to succeed in college. 3. A reference to something famous or well known to the audience is called A) Illusion. B) Call to action. C) Rhetoric. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 4. What is a counter argument? A) Credibility or character. B) A conclusion reached through reasoning. C) A statement that is in opposition to the thesis. D) How the author is expressing himself/herself. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A statement that is in opposition to the thesis. 5. Art or literature characterized by an idealistic, perhaps unrealistic, view of people and the world A) Romanticism. B) Parallelism. C) Chiasmus. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Romanticism. 6. What is Description A) Writing that tells a story. B) A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed. C) A brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event. D) A representation or account of a person, object, or event using details. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A representation or account of a person, object, or event using details. 7. Example: "The warm sun kissed my face as I walked through the garden." A) Anthropomorphism. B) Euphemism. C) Pathetic Fallacy. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anthropomorphism. 8. If someone gives more information in their argument, that is an example of A) Jargon. B) Theme. C) Qualify. D) Sarcasm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Qualify. 9. Something that reveals a critical attitude towards some element of life to a humorous effect A) Zuegma. B) Anaphora. C) Satire. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Satire. 10. When a word has two or more meanings and is used in a humorous way A) Pun. B) Appositive. C) Humorous sentence. D) Balanced sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pun. 11. "Her skin was so pale, and her hair so dark, they called her snow white" is an example of A) Allusion. B) Pathos. C) Ethos. D) Anecdote. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 12. The environment of ideas, attitudes, and emotions that swirl around a broad issue. A) Attitude. B) Audience. C) Occasion. D) Purpose. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Occasion. 13. "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." A) Analogy. B) Antithesis. C) Paradox. D) Extended Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Analogy. 14. Writing that is not meant to be take literally. A) Mood. B) Oxymoron. C) Motif. D) Figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Figurative language. 15. Repetitive sentence structure that adds intensity and builds rhythm A) Hyperbole. B) Paradox. C) Metaphor. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Parallelism. 16. Example: "She sells seashells by the seashore." A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Alliteration. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 17. An author's stance on a position and the way he or she communicates that stance/position. A) Connotation. B) Attitude. C) Art. D) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Attitude. 18. Example: "We need all hands on deck to finish this project." A) Hyperbole. B) Synecdoche. C) Euphemism. D) Malapropism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Synecdoche. 19. "Do I love you because you're beautiful?Or are you beautiful because I love you?" A) Maxim. B) Satire. C) Chiasmus. D) Verbal Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chiasmus. 20. The atmosphere created by the literature and accomplished through diction and syntax. The setting and events can also be affect it. A) Mood. B) Simile. C) Tone. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 21. Choose the response with 4 fallacies A) False cause, hasty generalization, ad hominem, straw man. B) Unstated premises, bad analogy, appeal to authority, cliche thinking. C) Ad hominem, counterexample, cliche thinking, bad analogy. D) Straw man, slippery slope, non sequitur, valid argument. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False cause, hasty generalization, ad hominem, straw man. 22. An if-then sentence that consists of two parts:an anecdote and a consequent A) Argument. B) Fallacy. C) Ellipsis. D) Conditional statement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Conditional statement. 23. Of, from, to, before A) Prepositions. B) Adjectives. C) Adverbs. D) Conjunctions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prepositions. 24. Juxtaposition of disparate elements A) Putting different things next to each other. B) Putting similar things next to each other. C) Separating different things. D) Separating similar things. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Putting different things next to each other. 25. Example: "Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up." A) Aphorism. B) Simile. C) Parallelism. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aphorism. 26. Poetry that doesn't have meter or rhyme A) Free verse. B) Polysyndeton. C) End rhyme. D) Iambic pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free verse. 27. "Passed away" instead of "died." A) Epithet. B) Epigram. C) Malaproprism. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Euphemism. 28. "Tell me pacifically what she said." A) Euphemism. B) Malapropism. C) Syntax. D) Allegory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Malapropism. 29. A figure of speech that compares two unlike things using the words "like" or "as" is the definition of A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 30. An exaggerated imitation of a serious work for humorous purposes. It borrows words or phrases from an original and pokes fun at it. A) Classicism. B) Clause. C) Pun. D) Parody. 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