This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Test Prep > Ap > Ap English Language – Quiz 19 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ap English Language Quiz 19 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the term for a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept, often used to adhere to standards of social or political correctness or to add humor or ironic understatement? For example:saying 'earthly remains' instead of 'corpse.' A) Euphemism. B) Oxymoron. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Euphemism. 2. Define anaphora? A) When your dog impregnates your fish. B) Deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs. C) Specific word choice. D) The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs. 3. Repetition of a particular word at the beginning of successive clauses, sentences, paragraphs, etc. A) Anaphora. B) Asyndeton. C) Polysyndeton. D) Metonymy. E) Glossia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 4. That is the best present I have ever received! A) Abstraction. B) Parallelism. C) Absolute. D) Parody. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Absolute. 5. What is 'allegory'? A) The expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence. B) The rhetorical substitution of a part for the whole. C) A statement of purpose, intent, or main idea in a literary work. D) The use of stylistic devices that reveal an author's attitude towards a subject. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence. 6. If a piece of evidence is described as irrelevant, it means: A) The source of the information is biased or untrustworthy. B) The information provided is factually incorrect. C) There is not enough evidence to support the claim fully. D) The evidence does not relate logically to the specific claim it is meant to support. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The evidence does not relate logically to the specific claim it is meant to support. 7. Which of these is the best definition of tone? A) How the speaker wants the audience to feel. B) A speaker's attitude toward the subject conveyed by the speaker's stylistic and rhetorical choices. C) The use of emotions to persuade an audience. D) The volume of a speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A speaker's attitude toward the subject conveyed by the speaker's stylistic and rhetorical choices. 8. Which revision MOST improves clarity? A) Replace "thing" with "factor". B) Add an exclamation point. C) Delete the topic sentence. D) Repeat the main idea. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Replace "thing" with "factor". 9. In the synthesis essay, what are students required to do with the provided sources? A) Ignore them. B) Integrate information from at least three sources to support their argument. C) Summarize each source separately. D) Only use one source. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Integrate information from at least three sources to support their argument. 10. Which revision MOST improves an argument's precision? A) Replacing "many people think" with "critics argue". B) Adding appeals to emotions. C) Repeating the thesis. D) Introducing a rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Replacing "many people think" with "critics argue". 11. Which of the following best expresses the function of the third paragraph (lines 25-41)? A) It supports the writer's statements in the second paragraph. B) It expresses challenges in order to refute them in the fourth paragraph. C) Its somber tone provides a transition to the serious subject that follows. D) Its diverting subject matter creates a suspenseful tension. E) It discusses a topic inverse to the paragraphs that come before it. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) It discusses a topic inverse to the paragraphs that come before it. 12. Which rhetorical device is illustrated by the example:'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ..... '? A) Diction. B) Hyperbole. C) Juxtaposition. D) Enumeratio. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Juxtaposition. 13. The narrator is not within the story and presents the thoughts, emotions, and actions of any or all characters. A) First Person Narrator. B) Third Person Narrator. C) Third Person Omniscient. D) Third Person Limited. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Third Person Omniscient. 14. Developing an essay that aims to depict a scene, person, thing or idea. A) Description. B) Diction. C) Figurative language. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Description. 15. Chose the device that matches the definition.A literary, historical, religious, or mythological reference in a literary work A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Anaphora. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 16. The sudden appearance of the commonplace in otherwise elevated matter or style. A) Coherence. B) Chiasmus. C) Bathos. D) Asyndeton. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bathos. 17. Fill in the blank: ..... is a sentence that gives a command. A) Imperative sentence. B) Declarative sentence. C) Interrogative sentence. D) Exclamatory sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imperative sentence. 18. What do the last three passages of the multiple choice section of our exam test you over? A) Reading. B) Writing. C) Rhetorical devices. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Writing. 19. What does this appeal to?"I work 300 days a year and make over 1, 000, 000 dollars annually with 15 different businesses." A) Fakeos. B) Pathos. C) Ethos. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Logos. 20. A writer MOST strengthens an argument by A) Repeating the claim. B) Adding emotional language. C) Explaining how evidence supports the claim. D) Introducing unrelated facts. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Explaining how evidence supports the claim. 21. What is a metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work called? A) Extended metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Extended metaphor. 22. PASSAGE 2The third sentence of the first paragraph advances the author's purpose by presenting characteristics and features that A) Describe England in the seventeenth century. B) Help define the idea presented in the previous sentence. C) Challenge John Donne's knowledge of the United States. D) Help justify the claim made in the first sentence of the paragraph. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Help define the idea presented in the previous sentence. 23. True or False:You should find the longest possible quotation to include in your writing to show you know what you're talking about. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 24. Express (a proposition, theory, etc.) in clear or definite terms. A) Rebuttal. B) Inversion. C) Parallelism. D) Enunciate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Enunciate. 25. Embellish A) To speak out against; to condemn. B) Unaware; unconscious. C) To add details; to exaggerate. D) Passionate. 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