This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Test Prep > Ap > Ap English Language – Quiz 13 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ap English Language Quiz 13 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A sentence with two or more coordinate independent clauses, often joined by one or more conjunctions, is called a ..... A) Compound sentence. B) Simple sentence. C) Complex sentence. D) Interrogative sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Compound sentence. 2. To take advantage of someone or something, for one's own selfish purpose A) Modest. B) Exploit. C) Tyrannize. D) Misconception. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exploit. 3. Which screen reader is supported for Macintosh in Canvas? A) JAWS. B) NVDA. C) VoiceOver. D) ChromeVox. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) VoiceOver. 4. Which feature LEAST contributes to coherence? A) Logical transitions. B) Consistent focus. C) Pedantic diction. D) Clear organization. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pedantic diction. 5. Which choice is LEAST effective in establishing credibility? A) Citing a credible source. B) Acknowledging limitations. C) Using absolute claims. D) Maintaining a formal tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Using absolute claims. 6. "The radiators put out lots of heat, too much, in fact, and old-fashioned sounds and smells came with it, exhalations of the matter that composes our own mortality, and reminiscent of the intimate gases we all diffuse." -Saul Bellow More Die of Heartbreak A) Periodic sentence. B) Cumulative (loose) sentence. C) Hortative sentence. D) Compound sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cumulative (loose) sentence. 7. The examples "Only batman fights crime" and "Batman only fights crime" differ in A) Figurative language, syntax. B) Rhetorical devices, semantics. C) Semantics, synecdoche. D) Imagery, figurative language. E) Syntax, sematics. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Syntax, sematics. 8. A manner of description in which the subject of the sentence has the actions done to it. A) Active Voice. B) Passive Voice. C) Metonymic Voice. D) Objective Voice. E) Secular Voice. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Passive Voice. 9. The exigence of a text refers to A) The reason or need that prompts the writer to speak. B) The background of the writer. C) The intended audience. D) The tone or mood of the text. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The reason or need that prompts the writer to speak. 10. Within the context of a rhetorical situation, what does exigence mean? A) It is the evidence that supports a writer's or speaker's main argument. B) It is the counterargument that the writer or speaker rebuts or refutes. C) It is the part of a rhetorical situation that inspires, stimulates, provokes, or prompts writers or speakers to create a text or speech. D) It is the sense of urgency with which the writer or speaker makes his or her argument. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It is the part of a rhetorical situation that inspires, stimulates, provokes, or prompts writers or speakers to create a text or speech. 11. In what essay(s) is it appropriate to use personal information as textual evidence? A) Synthesis. B) Open-ended. C) Rhetorical analysis. D) Both a and b. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both a and b. 12. The implied meaning of a word or phrase A) Ambiguity. B) Connotation. C) Denotation. D) Synthesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Connotation. 13. Fill in the blank:The word 'apprise' means ..... A) To inform or notify. B) To confuse or mislead. C) To entertain or amuse. D) To ignore or neglect. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To inform or notify. 14. What is the primary function of alliteration in writing? A) To symbolize abstract ideas. B) To unify ideas and supply a musical sound. C) To refer indirectly to something presumably known. D) To juxtapose contrasting ideas intentionally. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To unify ideas and supply a musical sound. 15. What rhetorical device is being used?A boss tells his worker that they have been "let go" instead of saying "you're fired" A) Epitaph. B) Eulogy. C) Exposition. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Euphemism. 16. What is the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend? A) Euphemism. B) Paradox. C) Metonymy. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Euphemism. 17. What type of passages are most commonly used in the multiple-choice section of the AP English Language and Composition Exam? A) Nonfiction prose from various time periods. B) Science fiction stories. C) Personal letters. D) Poems. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nonfiction prose from various time periods. 18. An indirect reference to something (usually a literary text), with which the reader is supposed to be familiar. A) Alliteration. B) Aphorism. C) Antimetabole. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 19. What is the writer primarily talking about in the first paragraph of the passage? A) The composition of the filet-o-fish. B) The background of McDonald's. C) Her experiences versus others. D) The rise in popularity of fast food in China. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Her experiences versus others. 20. Which of the following is an example of 'Invective'? A) I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin. B) He's no fool. C) The White House declared a new policy. D) It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin. 21. Exaggerated statement or claim (a) A) A. hyperbole. B) Idiom. C) Metaphor. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A. hyperbole. 22. A word or phrase that links different ideas. A) Tone. B) Transition. C) Understatement. D) Wit. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Transition. 23. PASSAGE 2In the final sentence ( "But what ..... stand" ), the author indicates the relationship between the "two age-old American concepts" by employing A) Subordination to suggest an inequality between the two concepts. B) Quotation marks to highlight the origins of the two concepts. C) Coordination to suggest a balance between the two concepts. D) A question mark to imply that one of the two concepts must be false. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Coordination to suggest a balance between the two concepts. 24. What is the purpose of qualifying a claim? A) To provide insights into a problem or help to develop ideas or hypotheses. B) To generate numerical data or statistics. C) To deny the validity of an opposing argument. D) To suggest a course of action. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To provide insights into a problem or help to develop ideas or hypotheses. 25. If I am absent, I don't have to worry about the work I missed. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesTest Prep QuizzesGrammar QuizzesAp English Language Quiz 1Ap English Language Quiz 2Ap English Language Quiz 3Ap English Language Quiz 4Ap English Language Quiz 5Ap English Language Quiz 6Ap English Language Quiz 7Ap English Language Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books