This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Test Prep > Ap > Ap Language Terms – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ap Language Terms Quiz 3 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. 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. A) Personification. B) Parody. C) Idiom. D) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parody. 2. 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." A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Parallelism. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parallelism. 3. Grammatical arrangement of words. the grouping of words. A) Tone. B) Diction. C) Allusion. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Syntax. 4. Example: "She's the pineapple of perfection." A) Malapropism. B) Anaphora. C) Allusion. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Malapropism. 5. Means persuading by the use of reasoning, using true premises and valid arguments. A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logos. 6. To mention or reference a person, event, place, or thing in text. A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Didactic. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 7. Example: "When I was your age, we didn't even have the internet." A) Allusion. B) Flashback. C) Assonance. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flashback. 8. Means being convinced by the credibility of the author. A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 9. The effective use communication in speaking or writing is called A) Essay. B) Chatting. C) Speaking. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhetoric. 10. What is Synecdoche? A) A literary device that depicts a shift from past to present. B) A part of something used to represent the whole or vice versa. C) A form of understatement often involving double negatives. D) The repetition of similar sounds within nearby words. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A part of something used to represent the whole or vice versa. 11. Example: "I'll just have to grin and bear it." A) Aphorism. B) Euphemism. C) Colloquialism. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Euphemism. 12. When the audience of a drama, play, movie, etc, knows something that the character doesn't and would be surprised to find out. A) Dramatic irony. B) Situational irony. C) Verbal irony. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dramatic irony. 13. Making an implied comparison, not using like, as, or other such words A) Metonymy. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 14. Jargon is the diction used by groups which partake in a similar profession or activity A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 15. What is Malapropism? A) The deliberate juxtaposition of opposing ideas. B) An over-the-top exaggeration for emphasis or humor. C) The blending of multiple words to create a new one. D) An incorrect word used humorously in place of a similar-sounding one. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An incorrect word used humorously in place of a similar-sounding one. 16. Example: "The leaves danced joyfully in the breeze." A) Anthropomorphism. B) Pathetic Fallacy. C) Chiasmus. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathetic Fallacy. 17. Example: "He's a real Romeo with the ladies." A) Allusion. B) Euphemism. C) Synecdoche. D) Litotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 18. Example: "I'm feeling a bit under the weather." A) Synecdoche. B) Pathetic Fallacy. C) Colloquialism. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Colloquialism. 19. What is a Portmanteau? A) A figure of speech in which a part represents the whole. B) The substitution of a related term for the object itself. C) A word formed by blending two or more words. D) A brief, clever statement about life. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A word formed by blending two or more words. 20. The attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or an idea. A) Euphemism. B) Synecdoche. C) Personification. D) Satire. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 21. "Fair is foul, and foul is fair." -From Macbeth A) Chiasmus. B) Antithesis. C) Maxim. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chiasmus. 22. What is Colloquialism? A) A deliberate understatement for ironic effect. B) The blending of two words to form a new one. C) A figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole. D) A casual or conversational word or expression specific to a region or culture. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A casual or conversational word or expression specific to a region or culture. 23. The literal, explicit meaning of a word, without its connotations. A) Diction. B) Denotation. C) Syntax. D) Vernacular. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Denotation. 24. Means persuading by appealing to the reader's emotion A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. 25. Uses a short story or life experience as an example to support a point. A) Anaphora. B) Anecdote. C) Parallelism. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anecdote. 26. When the opposite of what you expect to happen, happens. A) Paradox. B) Sarcasm. C) Irony. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Irony. 27. Giving human-like qualities to something that is not human. A) Analogy. B) Oxymoron. C) Mood. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 28. Word choice, particularly as an element of style. A) Diction. B) Allusion. C) Tone. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Diction. 29. A question that is asked, but the audience isn't intended to answer it is called A) Rhetorical question. B) Ethos. C) Logos. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetorical question. 30. A newspaper article shows a histogram displaying the average life expectancy of a certain region. Which rhetorical appeal did they use? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Exaggeration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesTest Prep QuizzesGrammar QuizzesAp Language Terms Quiz 1Ap Language Terms Quiz 2Ap Language Terms Quiz 4Ap Language Terms Quiz 5Ap English Language QuizAp Language And Composition QuizAp Language Synthesis QuizAp Language Vocabulary Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books