This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Test Prep > Ap > Ap English Language – Quiz 14 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ap English Language Quiz 14 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Speakers appeal to reason by offering clear rational ideas and using specific details, examples, facts, statistics, or expert testimony to back them up. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 2. What should you look for when tracing the main idea of the passage? A) Geographical locations. B) Historical references. C) Mathematical equations. D) Repeating words. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repeating words. 3. Which method should you use if your audience needs to visualize or experience? A) Description. B) Narration. C) Cause and Effect. D) Definition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Description. 4. A sentence or group of sentences that directly expresses the author's opinion, purpose, meaning, or position. A) Sarcasm. B) Synesthesia. C) Theme. D) Thesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thesis. 5. What is the central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life, usually unstated in fictional works but may be directly stated in nonfiction? A) Theme. B) Thesis. C) Tone. D) Transition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 6. Which fallacy involves using someone as an "expert" who is not actually an expert? A) Faulty analogy. B) Appeal to false authority. C) Red herrings. D) Non sequitur. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Appeal to false authority. 7. In the first paragraph, the speaker suggests that "the man of lettered leisure" (sentence 1) has a A) Tendency to avoid conflict. B) Choice regarding his attitude toward involvement. C) Fundamental altruism that influences his actions. D) Desire to become better than he is. E) Valid reason to hold himself apart from others. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Choice regarding his attitude toward involvement. 8. What kind of texts are primarily used in the AP English Language course? A) Classic novels and plays. B) Non-fiction and visual texts. C) Epic poems and ancient myths. D) Biographies of famous authors. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Non-fiction and visual texts. 9. What is the word (with any accompanying phrases) or clause that follows a linking verb and complements, or completes, the subject of the sentence by either renaming it or describing it? A) Subject complement. B) Direct object. C) Predicate adverb. D) Indirect object. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Subject complement. 10. Fill in the blank:The repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words, is known as ..... A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 11. Which rhetorical term is defined as:'A device used to produce figurate language. Many compare dissimilar things. Figures of speech include apostrophe, hyperbole, irony, metaphor, metonymy, oxymoron, paradox, personification, simile, synecdoche, and understatement.'? A) Figure of speech. B) Alliteration. C) Anaphora. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Figure of speech. 12. What is the main idea of the conclusion of the passage? A) The writer's proclivity for the filet-o-fish and its unusual qualities. B) The changes in the filet-o-fish over time and the writer's nostalgia. C) The sacrifices the writer's parents made for her and their love for the sandwich. D) The writer's reflection on the past and present of the filet-o-fish. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The sacrifices the writer's parents made for her and their love for the sandwich. 13. How many passages should you expect to see in the reading multiple choice section? A) Two passages with 11-14 questions each. B) One passage with 11-14 questions. C) Three passages with 11-14 questions each. D) Four passages with 11-14 questions each. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Two passages with 11-14 questions each. 14. What does cause and effect development examine? A) The relationship between events, actions, or conditions and their results. B) The similarities between events. C) The differences between actions. D) The outcomes of unrelated events. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The relationship between events, actions, or conditions and their results. 15. What is the definition of 'Absolute'? A) A word free from limitations or qualifications ("best, " "all, " "unique, " "perfect"). B) A word that always refers to a physical object. C) A word used only in mathematical equations. D) A word that describes a temporary state. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A word free from limitations or qualifications ("best, " "all, " "unique, " "perfect"). 16. Which term refers to deliberate exaggeration? A) Imagery. B) Hyperbole. C) Oxymoron. D) Maxim. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 17. Which of the following best defines an anecdote? A) A long, narrative poem that tells the story of a heroic figure. B) A short, interesting, or amusing story about a real person or incident. C) A literary device used to compare two unlike things without using "like" or "as". D) The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A short, interesting, or amusing story about a real person or incident. 18. What does column C on the AP English Language rubric score? A) Thesis. B) Evidence/commentary. C) Sophistication. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sophistication. 19. What is the seventh largest city in the state of Indiana? A) Shelby. B) Lowell. C) Schneider. D) Hammond. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hammond. 20. Reflecting serious thought, usually marked by some sadness A) Diplomatic. B) Earnest. C) Disgruntled. D) Pensive. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pensive. 21. Opposition or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel construction. A) Juxtaposition. B) Parallelism. C) Antithesis. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Antithesis. 22. Passage 1- "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (1963) Martin Luther King Jr. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Question:King's phrase "inescapable network of mutuality" primarily emphasizes A) Human selfishness. B) Collective responsibility. C) Political division. D) Spiritual equality. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Collective responsibility. 23. The primary purpose of sentences 4 and 5 of thesecond paragraph ( "Among ..... actually are" )in the speaker's line of reasoning is to A) Argue for the importance ofself-government. B) Describe the conditions under which it ispossible to act. C) Identify the reasons why men choose thecloistered life. D) Distinguish different types and degrees ofuselessness. E) Explain the motivation of the man of action. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Distinguish different types and degrees ofuselessness. 24. In the context of AP English Language, what is the primary purpose of a synthesis essay? A) To summarize multiple sources. B) To argue a position using multiple sources. C) To analyze the rhetorical strategies of a text. D) To narrate a personal experience. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To argue a position using multiple sources. 25. His car suffered a severe stroke in the middle of the road, and refused to move forward. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Oxymoron. D) Paradox. 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