This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Test Prep > Ap > Ap Language Terms – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ap Language Terms Quiz 4 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is Allusion? A) An indirect reference to a well-known person, place, event, or work. B) The formation of new words by blending. C) The attribution of human qualities to non-human objects. D) A direct comparison between two unlike things. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An indirect reference to a well-known person, place, event, or work. 2. Example: "You have to take the bitter with the sweet." A) Euphemism. B) Assonance. C) Parallelism. D) Litotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parallelism. 3. Using words such as like or as to make a direct comparison between two different things. A) Idiom. B) Metaphor. C) Analogy. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 4. Her voice was clear as a bell is an example of A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 5. "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." A) Alludes to. B) Connotes. C) Infers. D) Rebukes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alludes to. 6. Using the same word, phrase, or idea over and over again. A) Style. B) Voice. C) Repetition. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 7. Which is NOT a good way to start an introduction A) Statistics. B) Question. C) Anecdote. D) Thesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thesis. 8. Evidence that is a well-known saying, as if it is proven or has no exceptions A) False cause. B) Appositive. C) Consonance. D) Cliche thinking. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cliche thinking. 9. A literary, historical, religious, or mythological reference. For example, one might contrast the life and tribulations of Fredrick Douglass to the trials of Job. A) Abstract. B) Allusion. C) Ambiguity. D) Anecdote. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 10. ..... is sentence structure which places equal grammatical constructions near each other, or repeats identical grammatical patterns A) Parallelism. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopeia. D) Juxtoposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parallelism. 11. Example: "Brunch is a combination of breakfast and lunch." A) Metonymy. B) Euphemism. C) Portmanteau. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Portmanteau. 12. A comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things. Often, this uses something familiar to explain something unfamiliar or complex. A) Antecedent. B) Allusion. C) Analogy. D) Anecdote. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Analogy. 13. How do you get a touchdown on the persuasive AP essay A) Including a Counterargument. B) Intro/3 Body Paragraphs/Conclusion. C) Pray for a Hail Mary. D) Defensible Thesis and Sufficient Evidence/Commentary. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Defensible Thesis and Sufficient Evidence/Commentary. 14. Example: "It wasn't my best moment." (After an embarrassing event) A) Litotes. B) Metonymy. C) Chiasmus. D) Flashback. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Litotes. 15. Example: "The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain." A) Flashback. B) Assonance. C) Allusion. D) Anthropomorphism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 16. What is the art of effective communication? A) Rhetorical question. B) Rhetoric. C) Valid argument. D) Argument. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetoric. 17. Writing that has an instructive purpose or lesson. It often has the connotation of being dry or pompous. A) Antithesis. B) Author's purpose. C) Didactic. D) Ambiguity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Didactic. 18. Example: "The wheels are already in motion to complete the project." A) Synecdoche. B) Metonymy. C) Alliteration. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Synecdoche. 19. A technique of using language effectively and persuasively inspoken or written form. A) Aristotelian appeals. B) Speaking. C) Writing. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhetoric. 20. Some of Aesop's fables are ..... in that they have an underlying moral or social message. A) Allusions. B) Antitheses. C) Didactic. D) Anticedents. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Didactic. 21. Question not asked for information but for the effect. A) Rhetorical. B) Syntax. C) Allusion. D) Satirical. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetorical. 22. What is a Flashback? A) A deliberate reversal of word order. B) A reference to something outside the current context. C) The use of informal or conversational expressions. D) An event or scene inserted to depict something from the past. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An event or scene inserted to depict something from the past. 23. The quality of being open to more than one interpretation; inexactness. A) Abstract. B) Classical allusion. C) Ambiguity. D) Anecdote. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ambiguity. 24. A purpose term for arguing against something A) Promote. B) Qualify. C) Establish. D) Rebut. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rebut. 25. The appeal to logic, to appeal to the audiences' sense of reason or logic is the definition of A) Logos. B) Ethos. C) Simile. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logos. 26. A writer's attitude toward his subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization. A) Allusion. B) Rhetoric. C) Diction. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tone. 27. What is Pathetic Fallacy? A) A humorous misuse of similar-sounding words. B) The attribution of human feelings to nature or inanimate objects. C) A statement meant to evoke a sense of universality. D) A reversal of normal word order for effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The attribution of human feelings to nature or inanimate objects. 28. Example: "He's not the sharpest tool in the shed." A) Metonymy. B) Euphemism. C) Simile. D) Litotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metonymy. 29. What is Anastrope? A) The deliberate rearrangement of normal word order for effect. B) The substitution of one word for another that it suggests. C) Using informal or conversational language. D) A figure of speech in which ideas are presented in reverse order. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The deliberate rearrangement of normal word order for effect. 30. What provokes the speaker to write/speak? A) Message. B) Exigence. C) Audience. D) Purpose. 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