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Ap Language Terms Quiz 2 (60 MCQs)

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1. What rhetorical device is used in: "We are the people in a quandary about the present. We are the people in search of our future. We are the people in search of a national community. We are the people."
2. Grammatical arrangement of words. the grouping of words.
3. Example: "She's the pineapple of perfection."
4. Means persuading by the use of reasoning, using true premises and valid arguments.
5. To mention or reference a person, event, place, or thing in text.
6. Example: "When I was your age, we didn't even have the internet."
7. Means being convinced by the credibility of the author.
8. The effective use communication in speaking or writing is called
9. Example: "I'll just have to grin and bear it."
10. When the audience of a drama, play, movie, etc, knows something that the character doesn't and would be surprised to find out.
11. Making an implied comparison, not using like, as, or other such words
12. Jargon is the diction used by groups which partake in a similar profession or activity
13. What is Malapropism?
14. Example: "The leaves danced joyfully in the breeze."
15. Example: "He's a real Romeo with the ladies."
16. Example: "I'm feeling a bit under the weather."
17. What is a Portmanteau?
18. "Fair is foul, and foul is fair." -From Macbeth
19. What is Colloquialism?
20. The literal, explicit meaning of a word, without its connotations.
21. Means persuading by appealing to the reader's emotion
22. Uses a short story or life experience as an example to support a point.
23. When the opposite of what you expect to happen, happens.
24. Giving human-like qualities to something that is not human.
25. Word choice, particularly as an element of style.
26. A question that is asked, but the audience isn't intended to answer it is called
27. A newspaper article shows a histogram displaying the average life expectancy of a certain region. Which rhetorical appeal did they use?
28. Example: "You have to take the bitter with the sweet."
29. Using words such as like or as to make a direct comparison between two different things.
30. Her voice was clear as a bell is an example of
31. "The Birth-Mark", Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story, ..... the Greek myth of Pygmalion when Aylmer exclaims, "Even Pygmalion, when his sculptured woman assumed life, felt not greater ecstasy than mine will be."
32. Using the same word, phrase, or idea over and over again.
33. Which is NOT a good way to start an introduction
34. Evidence that is a well-known saying, as if it is proven or has no exceptions
35. A literary, historical, religious, or mythological reference. For example, one might contrast the life and tribulations of Fredrick Douglass to the trials of Job.
36. ..... is sentence structure which places equal grammatical constructions near each other, or repeats identical grammatical patterns
37. Example: "Brunch is a combination of breakfast and lunch."
38. A comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things. Often, this uses something familiar to explain something unfamiliar or complex.
39. How do you get a touchdown on the persuasive AP essay
40. Example: "It wasn't my best moment." (After an embarrassing event)
41. Example: "The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain."
42. What is the art of effective communication?
43. Writing that has an instructive purpose or lesson. It often has the connotation of being dry or pompous.
44. Example: "The wheels are already in motion to complete the project."
45. A technique of using language effectively and persuasively inspoken or written form.
46. Some of Aesop's fables are ..... in that they have an underlying moral or social message.
47. Question not asked for information but for the effect.
48. What is a Flashback?
49. The quality of being open to more than one interpretation; inexactness.
50. A purpose term for arguing against something
51. The appeal to logic, to appeal to the audiences' sense of reason or logic is the definition of
52. A writer's attitude toward his subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization.
53. What is Pathetic Fallacy?
54. Example: "He's not the sharpest tool in the shed."
55. What is Anastrope?
56. What provokes the speaker to write/speak?
57. A rhetorical appeal that convinces the audience that the writer is credible.
58. Example: "I came, I saw, I conquered."
59. Example: "The pen is mightier than the sword."
60. "Some see the idea of a museum for rock & roll as ..... to the music's rebellious ethics."
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